COUNT THE STARS ☆ vathmos

[wormwood.]

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AURUM

DO NO HARM BUT TAKE NO SHIT !

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Aurum hated his past. He hated all of the baggage that came with it, both emotional and not, along with all of the scars that his body carried because of it. And now, with Vathmos in front of him, pouring her heart out to him – or the closest to that the hyena would ever get to, really – he can tell that she hates talking about it too. It's yet another thing that they have in common, and it would've made the lion smile if it weren't for the vulnerability that Vath was showing him. As he listened to her speak, his muzzle turned down in a frown, a soft sigh leaving him as he nodded, "I... I know what that feels like." After all, he had once been next in line for the throne back in the pride, but then he had lost all of that, with just one swift punch to the gut from his mother. He knew what it was like to feel like you could do anything, and then feel like you couldn't do jack shit the next moment.

Still... Vathmos was wrong, and Aurum knew that well. "Vath... don't you get it? Even if you can't go back to another hyena tribe... this can be your home. Tanglewood can be your home. I know we're not a bunch of fellow hyenas, but I like to think we're a pretty decent little bunch, and you know you're welcome here... you can claim to be from Tanglewood." There weren't many times where Aurum would insult Vathmos's intelligence, since he knew her to be plenty smart in the areas that mattered, but she really needed to get it through her thick skull that Tanglewood would accept her just as much, if not more, than any hyena tribe.

━ I'M GONNA WIN┆PROUD. WARM. PROTECTIVE. ━