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"I think I'm a little too small to leave much of a stain," Izuku responds, voice still shaking, even as he struggles to pull himself together. It's not working very well, and he doesn't want to inconvenience Aizawa or anything, so he does what he does best -- bury his remaining emotions deep down. He clenches his claws for a moment, takes a deep breath or more, and briefly presses his hard more firmly against the lion's shoulder before withdrawing. He seems reluctant to for a moment, before backing away several more steps.
"R-Right, um" Izuku begins, gaze flickering about. They're close to Snowbound, but it'll probably be a little far of a walk for right now. "W-Well, finding a den to stay in shouldn't be hard. Once you're ready, we could probably head over to Snowbound," The tabby offers rather idly, his gaze focused somewhere over the horizon. And then he blinks a few times, the realizing hitting him that Aizawa probably doesn't know what Snowbound, or the other clans, are. Izuku grimaces. He'd explained it to Todoroki, but this was worse.
"... Ah, Snowbound is a ... group, of other animals. Like a very simplified country, really. There's a hierarchy and everything. There's a lot of groups like it, Snowbound has just been where I've been staying," Izuku explains, as briefly as he can. And very vaguely. He'd gone on a long-winded rant about it to Todoroki, so he at least had a basic idea of how to explain it, now. Izuku just hopes Aizawa doesn't think it's a cult or something like Todoroki also did. "... I've, ah, actually been like this for a while now. I spent about two months on my own before I ended up joining a clan. I didn't have much of a choice, really -- they didn't force me, I just ... hadn't been doing well," Izuku tries, grimacing. That first while on his own had been absolutely miserable, and the safety of the clans in comparison just made him desperate to go back after he left. Izuku shakes out his fur and circles around Aizawa a little restlessly, wings shifting on his back.
"I actually met Todoroki sometime while I was there, on a walk. He convinced me to leave on some journey, but we got separated, so I eventually just ... joined a new group," So Izuku is being vague, so sue him. Aizawa hadn't even asked for details of his arrival, so it was for the best he was vague. So with this, Izuku attempts to gently nudge Aizawa, somewhat impatient. He would have been fine sitting around and talking, but Aizawa wanted to rest, and they couldn't just stay here.
"Staying out here isn't a good idea, though. It's not really -- safe. There's a stream somewhere that way I think, to wash the blood, and I could probably find some shelter," The Maine coon offers, gesturing some direction with his tail. And then he blinks, catching himself as it occurs to him that Aizawa probably wouldn't catch it, and instead tips his head, somewhere to the right of him. He's growing impatient, really, a bubble of anxiety growing and growing now that they weren't going anywhere. It was unlikely anything would happen, not so close to Snowbound territory, but the paranoia is what had kept him alive, so it's what he acts on, now.

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