grand scheme / aurum

[wormwood.]

i was born, on the highway, in a train wreck

with a heart, that was beating, out of my chest

On the bottom. Raymond's phrasing gave Aurum pause, mainly due to the fact that he had never really considered it that way. He had never thought of the normal members of Tanglewood as being on the bottom and he and Leroy being at the too. Sure, they were high positions, but ultimately high positions existed to serve those beneath them and make sure the group was running efficiently, so Aurum had never really felt as though he was better than anyone else. The large lion found himself shrugging his shoulders as he walked along, saying softly as he looked up between the gaps in the trees, "He's not using me, that I'm fairly sure of. We just tend to work well together, at least now. Our old spats were as a result of an outside source." Thw thought of Draekon made a faint frown flick over Aurum's face, but he quickly shook it off, instead listening to what Ray had to say next. It seemed as thought the other was more interested in him than merely the story behind his rank and how he had gotten there, and that surprised Aurum even more. Despite the aura he had sensed that had made him so uneasy around Ray initially, he seemed as though he was a fairly kind person, at least based off of first impressions. Glancing towards Ray, Aurum smiled and said, a hum leaving his throat, "What makes me tick...? Well, I suppose a lot of things. I've lived here in Tanglewood for... hmmm... I think about give months now. Six in January. I enjoy all the friends that I've made here, and I've even ended up with an adoptive sister and son, so I've got family here too. I've changed quite a bit since I first got here, but that's mainly because of the fact that I was finally in a more welcoming and warm environment. My childhood made me into a bit of an asshole when I first arrived." His arrival felt so far off and blurry now, but he still knew that he had been a radically different person than the one he was now, and he found that he was very very glad for the fact that he had changed so much.

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