everybody knows / FIRE

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

https://beastsofbeyond.com/index.php?topic=6134.new#new
Made a thread for people who escape, so they can keep rping the fire night without clogging this thread up.

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The first four were safe, but there were still so many others, BlueRidge, Pey, Taylon, Rizer, Lucerys, Epione, Charted Stars, Deval, Kunta, Marauder, Horizon, so many others that she just couldn't account for yet. Everything she stood for, dictated that she should run headstrong through the mansion until she found everyone, only leaving the blink before it would come down, then search the territory for anyone until she was sure everyone was safe. The fight to find and protect others from the flame? Was something she could do very well, it didn't require any effort on her part, just following her instincts, well the ones that had been abused into her until that was all she had, but same difference. Jiyu was always the one to run recklessly right into the danger because that life-threatening status was where she felt comfortable, everyone else panicked but she didn't because the only thing she feared anymore was the failure of her mission. A guard was supposed to be the first one out in the morning and the last one in at night, protect everyone even if it meant risking their own life, especially if it meant that.

Prestige spoke and the flames faded away in her mind, briefly the fire changed into the shape of two very distinct felines in her past, as her eyes met with the leader, for a split second the expression in them was different from the absence normally glaringly evident there. A single paw moved forward, pushing her to brush against him briefly, muzzle moving against his shoulder. "Be safe Pres, don't question yourself for a second, not even when it's closed around, that's how you survive." she clearly didn't like it from the brief expression on her face, something rarely seen, but inside of her chest, there was something blossomed there that took it out of her control, caused her to act differently than what she should. "I won't let anything happen to them, but if you don't come back out, I'm coming back for you once everyone is safe." how was she going to keep them safe? All she knew how to do was fight, why was she doing this, Pres was the one who knew how to manage other animals, albeit he did so in a way that showed his youth and inexperience but he wasn't daft like she was! Why then, was she so sure she could do what he was asking of her, sure enough, she was willing to abandon what she saw as her post in order to follow an order she was consciously convinced she'd fail.


"This way." she didn't doubt herself a second, even though she really should have. Prestige was the leader, he was thus the one suited to keeping everyone feeling safe once they were rescued from the flames, not her. Jiyu nodded in the direction she wanted everyone to go, not wanting to run at the front and risk someone falling behind or getting cut off from her guidance. "We'll all be alright." it sounded like a lie to her, but hey with her voice unchanging as it was, maybe they'd actually believe it.