I AM MADE OF PORCELAIN ! || joining

[puffball !]

p u f f b a l l

It had all happened so fast. Loud roars from his father and mother, his two older sisters joining in to fight and push back the figures. What did they look like? WHAT DID THEY LOOK LIKE? Puffball, despite his family’s protests, had joined in to the best of his ability at such a young age and swatted at the figure with them. But, then his father was tossed to the side with deep claw marks across his body and his white coat getting soaked with blood. His sisters stopped and cried out to their father, begging him to come back and help them, falling on deaf ears as the lion heaved what little breath was left in him before the older man’s daughters were knocked aside. A sickening crack was heard by the cub who began to cower and cover his ears from the sounds around him. He was left to be swatted back and forth painfully before his mother was able to step in and protect her son. The pain was too much for the cub, who watched his own coat began to be stained from the attack and see his eyes roll back into his skull before losing consciousness.

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“What happened to Mama?”

A brief pause hung in the air as a set of bright blue eyes stared down at a frog, big and puffy before it let out a loud croak to the lion cub in reply. His paw quickly set on the back of the frog and he asked yet again, only for it to squirm free and hope to a nearby pond. Puff all anxiously sat down and looked around him, unsure of the area and the fact his family was nowhere to be seen.  “Hullo? I am...” His paws tapped against the rock, thinking for a second before speaking once again. “I AM AN ADVENTURER!” He called out into the marsh, ignoring the knots and stains all over his fur. His body was covered in cuts that seemed relatively fresh, perhaps a day or two prior, but the cub chose to ignore them as if nothing was wrong. This was all just a journey while Mama and Papa took their own journey to join him soon.

Puffball hopped similarly to the frog to another flat stone and bobbed his head from side to side, looking about for anyone to keep him company. He was uncomfortable by being alone and he wanted to hide with someone nice! They could help him with his adventure and maybe even be some sort of wizard helper for him! He flicked his long tail curiously at the sound of others, but panic set heavily in his chest all the while. Puff looked to the cattails on the edge of the pond and scurried to hide behind them despite how his white fur made him stick out like a sore paw.

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