Awful Things, Ways To Make You Fade

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

The Monarch of Warfare had been seen patrolling the territory days and other things since her promotion, no slouch in normal duties. Yet, after that day the weirdest thing had happened. Not a single soul could attest to seeing Jiyu within the ruins since she left them on the day of her promotion. It was odd not only because of her normal need to keep an eye on everyone, but because the ruins were cooler than the rainforest and she was a longed hair feline. Staying out in the territory? Had to be miserable and potentially even dangerous for the calico, yet she had not returned to the ruins, not went near the waterfall. For someone who behaved as she normally did, the avoidance was odd. She seemed to sooner sleep in a hallowed out stump or log before even considering going back to the camp of her group.

One could easily assume the move was difficult for Jiyu, after-all she was a long standing member of the group and lost many things including paintings of her entire family when the mansion burned. Anyone would have the right to be upset about having to live in a new place the way they did! However, she had never once seemed to be this upset over it until the day after her promotion. The Monarchs issues ran far deeper than the fire, loosing her home was likely a factor but it was far from the actual source of her change in behavior.

Instead something no animal she could currently remembered being around was finally able to push at the calico after being promoted out of her guard position. Every territory in the past had possessed her biggest physical weakness in some way even if this one had lots more of that weakness, it hadn't been an issue at first. In the past? She had always been able to use her drive to guard everyone in order to overcome the one thing she had never been able to even momentarily conquer. Now that Prestige had changed her world by pushing her outside of the role she had played her whole life, she could no longer use her purpose as reason to push past an opponent she could never overcome. The water formed a barrier between the calico and where everyone else stayed. Without her normal coping mechanism nor powers, she just couldn't face the water. Jiyu couldn't swim nor float, one wrong step and she was going to drown. She had done that before, she didn't like it.