YOU'RE LIKE ME // double return to activity

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

He let everything in his surroundings fade out for whatever he wished to focus on or not focus on lazily seemed to not care about his surroundings, while she coped by hyper focusing on everything while trying to seem entirely apathetic. Both had their costs. For once though, she was not paying attention to the tiny specs of sand moving around them, one of the few animals capable of truly obtaining her attention and honesty in front of her. However this did not mean that the calico was entirely daft to her surroundings in the same way her brother allowed himself to entirely zone out with things like sleep. Actually, in spite of the amount of naps she took the calico rarely if ever truly slept or let herself zone out unable to trust that the animal next to her wasn't just going to take their paw and slap it across her face or rake their claws down her flank. Plus if she let herself lose control, let herself go in any capacity she could so easily see herself becoming the one lashing out someone else for absolutely no reason besides for blood lust.

Due to her hyper aware condition it was far from surprising that the sight of the crown being tossed at her was quickly caught onto. Holding Akuma? The ways she could respond became extremely limited, in the end she chose to lift her tail and slam it downwards to change the direction of the crown Riku had tossed causing it to plummet sharply to the ground with a clank. "I'm no idiot child and you'd do well not to call me one." considering her own knowledge of three different languages the calico didn't even truly notice that the child was speaking in Japanese for that insult. "Calling me an idiot is good as calling your father one." they had been through so much together that she rarely drew a line between them. While each of them dealt with the trauma differently? Only the tom looking at her knew what the two of them had suffered and hadn't been part of making it worse for her or someone she had made it worse for. They had been in the exact same situation for a long time, thus they couldn't blame each other for what had happened, just be there.

"Yeah, recently I gained a new draconic form, but I haven't been able to go full cat since."  It wasn't that shocking but she did certainly look different from what she used to. Plus, the constant flight was more dynamic than the way she used to just sit there while everyone else milled around doing their thing. "Though we look a bit more like yin and yang now." it was true, he had tons of ebony on him but she was almost all white now. Having spoken to her brother she turned her attention to the bright colored girl who was much shorter than the two of them. "Akuma and myself are siblings, we grew up together." thought they wouldn't be telling that child anything about how they grew up. Heck, they didn't tell anyone that Jiyu was aware of. "Akuma, it looks like our children take after each other. All your nieces and nephews also have uniquely colored pelts or actual mutations. Her cousins will like her if they come back, all 14 of them, though they are all older than you since the youngest is over three years old and born far from here, its been years since I've seen your cousins." the calico was willing to speak to the kid, so long as her own body remained in flight over her brother so the kid couldn't get too close.