built our empire ● border patrol & encounter pt 2!

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THE KINGPIN

golden lung dragon & black jaguar w/ vitiligo & platinum silver fox. unknown age - ancient. bai shi lynn lingré. proper chinese name is lin bai. prefers lynn if close. they/them. blind. wind element & electric element. firstborn son of jerisidie lingré & current head of family/general. courting delilah evergarden & halo mercer. kingpin of alithís evgenis. demiromantic gray-asexual. parent of veris, arvin, leoku, erian, flos, kekhai, evarhi, and laeglin. elder brother of ramona and hope, uncle of quennel and cosette.

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barely pausing to make sure that either she wolf was behind them, they tore up the path, claws digging into peat and dirt, lungs screaming at them as they took the deepest and most extreme slant at a full run, leaping forward now and then, using their muscles to pull themselves up. they knew that the other two must be surprised, they weren't about to let anyone die. an honorable death was found through battle, not the misfortune of falling from a cliff in the middle of a horrid storm. they could feel vibrations from the one side of the collapsing cliff rumbling through the ground under them, breath coming sharper and faster, head dizzy from lack of air. pausing as they took a bend in the path, the beast coughed and heaved, waiting for their companions to catch up. once asteri and sam had caught up and they'd caught their breath, the jaguar took a slightly less reckless pace up the path, the scents of the bandits still drowned by the nailing rain.

"watch your paws, ladies! the path gets treacherous here!", they warned before disappearing around another sharp corner of the path, trotting as they went, mindful of the realization that one fall could wipe them and their groupmates out. making it to the top of the cliff face, the jaguar huffed and puffed for breath, heedless of the hot blood at their paw, unknowing and uncaring of the fact that they had wrenched a claw in the wild race. exhilaration trembled through their body, tail shaking as they fought the urge to tear off somewhere, trying to find a trace of the bandits. "sam. asteri. rest now. running from here, we have no trail to follow, we can only pray that the storm lets up long enough for us to find them.", they coughed out, drenched to the bone, the jaguar's eyes glowing with the force of the lightning inside their blood. they wanted to hunt them down, they wanted to fight them, they wanted to take them down. swallowing, the jaguar shook their body, chasing away the violent thoughts that belonged to another time, to another version of them, a version that had no business coming back here, near their family and friends.