BREAK THE DOOR DOWN ★ open; collapse

[angelembrace]

"they flip the siren, hit the lights" ✭ ── Too many things happened recently, far too many things. The mudslide hit and dismantled the stability that Angel didn't even have the chance to enjoy, and in the fallout of that ( and Sojourn going poof ), his family was totally shattered in half. Jormungand was exiled for dragging the woman of Tanglewood all the way over and causing absolute mayhem, which the cub could have understood given some time, but Hydrostatic and Asmodeus had elected to follow behind, perhaps because of Aphra's incredible lack of motherly instinct. He got that too, but Angel refused to leave. He wasn't sure why, he just felt too nervous about up and leaving so soon, and had a heavy feeling in his gut that a child who struggled enough as it was to do the simplest of adolescent things, like cause minor trouble and whatnot, would not make that trip.

There were other reasons as well, for sure, Angelembrace had no interest in uprooting what little bit of connection he had to this place and those in it, and as much as he loved his father, his brothers, he could not follow the man who'd caused damage and bloodshed in good conscious. And he would not allow Aphra to be given the chance to revel in her victory of getting rid of all three boys, his spite was quickly forming within his little baby heart.

Whatever the reason, it did not prevent the overwhelming stress and subsequent reaction that was far too great for someone like him, and the jaguar cub could be found stumbling outside mumbling incoherently to himself as if he had hit his head or caught a fever, right before collapsing and successfully blacking the fuck out, light colored eyes rolling up into the back of his skull almost, a sight that would have fascinated him had it happened to literally anyone else but himself.