THE HUMAN RADIO // food supply raided

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

She was patrolling most of the night, weaving through the territory chasing off the odd rouge who wanted to cause trouble with her roses, and simply making sure there was no danger present to anyone. Normally she would catch something like Dante's entry into the territory easily, but she had already crossed that area at least an hour before he crossed the border, meaning she was not there to intercept him and was on the complete opposite side of the territory by the time he crossed back over. Jiyu didn't double back tonight like she normally would, thus she would not instantly know what happened because she would not catch his scent in the territory. Instead? She decided to take the shortcut back to the mansion in order to see how Pey was doing with his duties, the manticore was much younger than herself, needed someone to teach them or at least watch over them as they grew adjusted to guarding and everything it could entail. On the way back to the mansion, as she headed towards the stairs, she finally caught the scent and even though she remained stoic it burned rage deep into her, searing her insides with the desire to eat whoever had intruded in their territory regardless of if they provided any nutrition to her.

Out of the shadows that played the halls in the dead of night, Jiyu materialized, paws silent against the floors as she walked up to Pres stopping about two tail lengths in front of him. "Pres, what they just did could kill members quick as not having any healers if we don't stand up to them and make it unattractive for them to do it again." they had just taken a good portion of the fresh kill many members spent the whole day hunting! She enjoyed protecting pacifists like him, but today and the following would determine if she respected him or simply wanted to keep him safe. "It's a trick normally used in war." she had seen it done before, stealing food to weaken an enemy. "Confronting them head-on won't work." the other group didn't care, they would just laugh if the guard manticore and canine went to confront them. "If we don't respond strongly they will just pick on us again." that's what ruffians did, they picked on those who could not or would not protect themselves properly. Luckily, protecting was what she did best. "One war trick for one war trick, it would be much better to send one patrol in as a diversion while another much smaller and swifter patrol steals our food back while their distracted dealing with the patrol causing a scene, and only our food to make a point, we can play their game and we're better at it." they were not weak, and Pres knew little about 'combat' and confrontation he was still very young, but she had years, this was a game she had been playing long as she could remember.