flip em the bird – body change

[Mama]

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For a time she merely blinked at the other, unsure of how to accept the compliment. There were so few who readily offered such for she had been nothing to them, dirt beneath their paws to be brushed aside as soon as the chance arose, her own family seeing little worth within her. And then her fellow soldiers, they had seen nothing within beauty for it held no importance, it was the scars you bore, each a reminder of war, a dangerous creature seeking to bring their end only for them to come through victorious, laughing in the face of danger once it was well past.

“I-I... Thank you,” head ducked somewhat and her cheeks grew heated, her ears flattening against her skull. Ishayu had expected no such words from either, growing bashful now as she realised there was truth within them, not pretty lies to placate her, though within the case of Bucky there was less weight there, no flutter of her heart as had there been with Ja'sunna.