hint of a circle - prank

[wormwood.]

If Wormwood was being honest, he had known that he was being a bit of a dick when he surprised Feza and echoed her "boo" back at her in the most menacing tone that he could manage. After all, he knew that Feza was terrified of him, and even thought to himself before about how much he hated that fact, and yet he was using it to his advantage? He wasn't proud of himself for it, but honestly he had just been fueled by anger over thr fact that she had terrified Kiira and startled Echo with her childish little prank. He had acted based purely on emotion, something he had been trying his hardest not to do lately. Internally he reprimanded himself, which seemed to be the same thing that Feza had been doing before he had stepped forward to scare the shit out of her with his comparatively huge size. Evidently it seemed as though she at least understood that her little "joke" hadn't actually made anybody happy, but had just struck fear in Kiira and Echo. As far as he knew from the extremely limited understanding he had of what Feza was actually after, she wasn't after fear or terrified resentment. Rather, she was after smiles and cheerful laughter, which there was certainly a rather disturbing lack of in this particular situation. Honestly, given how on edge Wormwood had been lately thanks to the capture of his son and the frequent attacks on them by The Pitt, Feza was extremely lucky that she hadn't actually surprised Worm himself, since the lion definitely would've immediately lashed out. Considering how small Feza was in her little dragon form, it was entirely possible that if he had lashed out at her in her current state, he probably could have easily killed her, or at least could have rather thoroughly wounded her to the point where she could have joined. So it could be considered lucky that she had scared Echo and Kiira rather than him, but honestly it probably would have been best for everyone if she just hadn't tried to pull off the poorly thought out prank in the first place.

He grinned almost maliciously down at Feza when she swung around to face him, unaware of the nightmares that plagued Feza commonly these days that this scene reminded her of. When she struggled beneath his claws, her expression turning to one of panic and fear, her body flailing between the sharp daggers that adorned his paws as she tried to get away, Worm found that he expected her to start babbling some nonsense over how she had just pulled the prank in order to bring joy to others, or something else like that. However, rather than babbling and stammering some poorly thought out excuse, her voice was actually curiously absent, the only noise being that of her frantic and terrified panting as she scrambled away from him. He waited a few seconds before he let her up, lifting his large paw off of her so that she could get away, watching her flail forward and nearly fall upon her face as she slammed herself forward, her eyes wide. Sitting back on his haunches, the chaser said as his tail lashed slowly from side to side, a grim and irritated expression on his face as he rested his paws against the dirt again, his claws sinking into it a bit, "What's the matter, Feza? I was just trying to show you how you properly scare someone, you know? It was just a joke, just like you pranking Echo and Kiira. There's no need to take it so seriously." Perhaps he was being cruel about the way that he was going about this, but he had to lay it on thick as hell for Feza to actually understand why what she had done was shitty, particularly when it came to scaring Kiira. At least Echo was an adult, even if she couldn't express her fear, but Kiira was just a small child who was already scared out of her wits just from day to day comings and goings.

[glow=black,2,300]THE FREEDOM OF FALLING[/glow]