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?? ????????? 《》 Violence, always violence. Closing her eyes for a moment, attempting to gather her thoughts as their damn face flashed across her memory. Pain numbed her body, each wound turned from burning hot to the feeling of icy coldness. Darkness pressed on the corners of her vision, breath becoming hard to access and utilize, iron coating her tongue. Hacking up blood, she wiped her mouth with a paw, breathing labored as she panted, glaring at Jormungand as exhaustion began to make itself known to her, feeling the fading strength in her limbs. Claws digging into the fur of her stomach - she could tell he was beginning to tire of this as well. Coughing as she was pinned, bloody streaks across her fur having no meaning to her. Her thoughts were all twisted up as she saw his paw coming for her skull, the flash of fear lasting only a second before she closed her eyes to accept whatever his paw was going to do.
Any more movement from her would bring consequences, her muscles screaming and the world spinning around her. Static flying along her nerves, stars dancing in her eyes as the world went asunder, eyes closing as her chest heaved with a mighty cough, trying to roll her head to clear her throat of whatever was obstructing itself there. Getting out whatever it was, the molly lay limply, body aching as darkness came before the panther could knock her out. Passing out from the pain, her last attempt to fight the situation came as his paw came to her head, pitching her body up to attempt to bite the panther's paw pad, doing her best to dig her teeth in the best she could into the tender flesh between pads before falling back, unconscious from the pain her body was in.
As her mind faded into the black, she could only remember the things that she knew from the short time she'd spent here. An ache in her chest erupted, a foreboding sense of loneliness sweeping her. Her mind was filled by the memories of when she joined, when she had spoken to rat, aurum and atbash, when she had met the two beautiful ladies and majestic lion. Feeling tears in her eyes, she didn't want to leave them, she wanted to stay with the group. She hadn't fought hard enough. She'd heard of the murders of Aurum and Siborno, she'd not met the second party but she knew that their deaths rattled the members of Tanglewood. It had rattled her privately, a sense of angry hopelessness had been welling within her, leaving her to wonder if she would be able to safely protect the rest of those she had met in her short time. There had been Arrow, the cheetah a new face to her but not to others, one who willingly offered to help her find Amalthia in the sea after she had been lost to her. What would they think of her now? The memories of laying on Atbash's couch drinking hot chocolate, the moments of conversation between Rat and her when she came, the tender offer of welcome from Atbash and the helpful offer from Arrow in assisting her - these three women meant so much to her already. They were just friends, but they were something she hadn't had in forever, she hadn't had a friend since the day that she had begun this journey. What she wouldn't give to be surrounded by them again, to embrace each of the three and tell them she was sorry she was so weak that she couldn't fight off an intruder and that she'd been so badly injured that she couldn't chase him off. What she wouldn't give to wake up and find each of them and tell them that their friendship was so deeply important to her - that the little interactions made each day easier to integrate into the grieving group. Tears would mingle with the blood upon her fur as she succumbed to the darkness of unconsciousness.
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MERLIN GWYNNE
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