01-21-2020, 07:22 PM
Everything stays, right where you left it.
But it still changes, ever so slightly, daily and nightly.
I came out wrong. The simple phrase itself was enough to make Aurum ache with sympathy, mostly because he knew all too well what it felt like to be rejected by your own kind. He might not have felt the exact same way about his fellow lion that Vathmos felt for her fellow hyena, but he could certainly remember many a night spent wallowing in exhaustion and sadness, wishing he was good enough, or born right enough, for his friends and family not to hate him. That alone was enough to make Aurum want to snap. Not at Vathmos, but for Vathmos. After all, what fucking right did they have to say that she had come out wrong? Vathmos might've argued that since they were her people, her tribe, that meant that they knew better, but the proxy definitely felt like calling bullshit on such a thing. Still, he remained silent, allowing the hyena to finish in her little explanation of why she couldn't return to her own kind. His heart ached from deep inside his chest as she turned away from him, and he let a long moment of silence pass between the two of them, seemingly processing. Once he felt he had let the air hang long enough, he spoke softly, "Vathmos... I can't imagine what that must be like. How awful that must be. And I'm sorry that you have to suffer like that. But also... I feel really sorry for all those fuckers in those hyena tribes who won't have you alongside them. Because, those marks or not, you're still amazing. You're a good friend, and a valuable asset, and no matter what they think makes you 'wrong,' they've got their heads up their asses." He tried to keep his voice from growing too aggressive as he got to the end, his claws digging deeply into the earth to stop the anger inside. It was just... Vathmos was his friend. She didn't deserve this.
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— Reggan