NO MERCY ; pit fight [ DANNY vs MAZEPAW ]

[ARVID R.]

The hell was going on? For a while there, Arvid had actually been treated to nothing but blissful peace. His home was silent, and he was curled up with plenty of good books to occupy his time, and his mind. It had been getting fairly late, and the dire wolf figured that few wanderers would be out, let alone putting on events. It seemed as though he had been mistaken, however. Maude's booming call was enough to echo even into his home, and he sighed heavily, closing one of his thick books and getting up to his paws. He figured he might as well go and see what was going on, if only to keep up with the general goings on of the Coalition. That seemed part of his job as a thane, after all. Although, as the boy grew closer, and heard what Maude had planned, he had to actively resist the urge to roll his eyes. A pit fight, really? He knew that was what Maude had been digging the pit for in the first place, but it was just so... meaningless. At least with his captures, he was doing something in order to benefit the Coalition. He was advancing his scientific mind, and giving them even more advantages through his experiments. What was the point of this? Entertainment?

When he arrived and saw who was fighting, he couldn't help but let out a snort of amusement, shaking his head. Alright, it definitely wasn't for entertainment, then. If it was, then Maude would've bothered putting a couple of evenly matched opponents in the ring. After all, a fight was all the more exciting to watch when it came down to the wire. This one, though? Mazekit seemed pathetic, and Arvid had little doubt that the tiny feline would end slaughtered within only a few minutes. That seemed a out as entertaining as watching a snuff film, which in the canine's mind certainly wasn't very. Still, he tried to keep his mouth shut as he settled nearby, among the crowd. Scylla's reaction was a bit of a surprise, considering the little Latin-speaking girl hadn't seemed especially violent when she had joined. Lethe's cheer, however, wasn't all that big of a surprise. The young dragon was being raised by Aphra, after all. It made sense that she would grow up to be fairly ruthless in general. Although, he did have to wonder if Lethe entirely knew what was going on. Did she merely see the crowd and hear the cheering, and assume there was some kind of party going on?

Arvid's mind wasn't given much more time to wander, however, as the fight soon began. It wasn't, however, initiated by Mazepaw. The dire wolf couldn't help the way that his gaze narrowed at that, a pitying look in his glare down at Danny. He raised his voice above the cheers of the crowd, jeering down at the wolf, "Oh, you coward! You couldn't even let the kit get the first hit? Pathetic." The thane wasn't even much of a fighter, and even he would've let the poor feline shaking in his boots get a hit in first, if only out of some sense of honor. Danny could try to justify it with Maude's threats all he wanted, but it only caused Arvid to sneer down at the battle-locked canine with a look of disgust.

i wanna be the sand inside that hourglass