it's the burnup // kydobi

[bai shi]

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[color=#7E354D]BAI SHI
" biting the burning bullet to break bones "

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the scent of his injury reached them through his comforting scent, concern flashing in their core as they pulled back from their first contact, his scent filling their nose. he has a son ... they thought to themselves, perhaps he has already taken another in bonds. if so ... i must find out tonight., their thoughts wandered before hushing their overactive mind.

feeling him press against their body, they let a throbbing purr climb from their gut and out their throat. curling their body the slightest, protective, struck by the horrible memory of his cooling body held in their coil. a half strangled noise escaped them, using their head to press against his shoulder in a silent plea that he stay there. breath trembling, they chased away that memory, focusing back on the present.

"it matters not what you did or didn't do, kydobi. men and women like they? they will hate those different from them, they will cast out any difference to their code of living. worry not ... if they attack the pitt ... they will not get very far. they would be acting on old hostilities, trying to take an eye for an eye.", they would murmur, nose brushing against his fur, seeking the wound and wishing to clean it. "your son will see reason, kydobi. I'm sure that his mother hasnt been the one telling him horror stories ... but that aurum ... he will be the one to ruin any potential relationship. he hangs to tightly to old problems, much like i did. i regret hurting red ... but jervis needed to go." they growled softly, a shiver running the length of their body.

"they see ghosts in a living man, kydobi. stryker was a far worse leader than jervis, and you can only be better than that tyrant. i see nothing more than the kydobi that i know, the same young man that i met on the border of the rosebloods. you may have grown into your paws and gained a sense of maturity but you are still ..." the kydobi that i fell in love with "... the kydobi that helped me back to my feet, the same kydobi that showed me around the pitt, the same kydobi that has always been there." they murmur in a soft voice,  allowing their golden body to morph into their feline body, pressed against him still with their head upon his flank. "they see the good kind of man that they wish that they could be. they see a father denied his rights to his children. they see a warrior who keeps going despite what is thrown at him."