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Tell me I Deserve This - Yarrowfeld - Jan 09 2016
His....father...told him that he had to play with his brother, and he didn't know how to feel about that. He just wanted to cling to safety, to home, to the soft voice that loved him, to his mother who offered him the only wonderful thing he'd ever known, and his father had taken Carrie away from him to speak with her. She didn't look too happy, but she whispered quiet encouragement to him and touched his cheek and smiled at him before she left, and that was the important thing. He would be a brave son for her, he would face what scared him with courage.
@Kingsfoil
He turned. And looked up. Even if what scared him was supposed to be part of his family. From the very moment the two brothers locked eyes, instantly they disliked each other, and for Yarrow, the feeling only grew. He didn't want to be around the tall, majestic colt, he wanted to run away and hide and close his eyes against that horrible sneer that told him he was less than worthy. What did he do? He didn't do anything wrong! He wanted to cry, but he wanted to be brave, so he took a deep breath and kept eye contact with Kingsfoil. RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Kingsfoil - Jan 09 2016 Play with his brother. Why did his father want him to do that with such a pathetic weakling? That stupid, malformed nuisance was just like his stupid mother! He should never have been born! Still, the Lord wanted him to be toughened up and he guess since he was a prince he had to at least try to make weak subjects useful. He could try but he doubted it would work... He could smell the weakness from where he stood. @Yarrowfeld RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Yarrowfeld - Jan 09 2016
Yarrow felt his fur rise on edge, and he looked down at the ground again, sitting on his haunches, wringing his little hands. He didn't like walking on them much, but walking on his back feet didn't seem to work very well. He had to suffer through it, it seemed, and he wished he had hooves like his brother so that he didn't have to feel every rock and pebble under his senstive hands.
Maybe...if something covered his hands, at least the palms of them...so that it wouldn't hurt? A small idea formed in his head, fuzzy and ill-formed, like a sheet of paper he tried to fold mentally around his hands, but before he could go anywhere with it, his brother brought him back to attention, sneering at him and insulting him. W-why...? Why would he pull him by the tail? Why would he do that? Yarrow trembled. It would hurt, too! He didn't do anything to deserve that! And if King thought it was funny, Yarrow didn't. And there was that word again, the word he disliked. Useful. It just irritated him, dug under his skin, making it crawl, and he wanted to cover his ears so he never heard the word again. And what was he saying, about making him a guard? He didn't want to guard, he just wanted to be with his mother and be safe. "F-....fight?" He repeated, trembling, his small voice breathy and quiet. Antlers? He had antlers? He reached up slowly and felt the top of his head, frowning, feeling hard little nubs peaking out from under the skin. How would you use these tiny little things for anything at all? RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Kingsfoil - Jan 09 2016 He could see the weakling trembling in his fur. It annoyed him and with a barely veiled threat in his voice he said, "Stop sniveling, coward. I haven't even done anything to you... yet." He stamped a hoof in the earth to shed that excess anger as he sighed. He was a prince. It wouldn't do for the commoners to see that he was getting too far worked up by their silly antics. RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Yarrowfeld - Jan 09 2016
His brother was mocking him and making fun of him and Yarrow wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out. He shrunk onto himself, trying to make himself as small as possible, telling him of all his flaws. He stuttered, he cried, he sniveled, he was....useless...
That word in particular just plain hurt him, and he wanted to run away from the whole thing. What was stopping him? He could just run into a tiny little hole King couldn't get to and cover his ears till his mother came to get him with her soft voice and caring words. But he sat there, listening to King's speech, and his face wrinkled up in the way little kids do when they're about to really cry, his eyes big and watery, and he was faced with two choices. One, run away, or two...learn to...fight? Protect his mother? He sniffed and ribbed at his nose with the back of his hand and looked up to King, his nose running. "N-no..." he said quietly, his soft voice like the wind. RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Kingsfoil - Jan 09 2016 Oh good gods, was he about to cry? He could practically see it in the hybrid's face. His eyes were tearing up. King just waited on just one tear to drop. Just one. And he would lay into coward like no tomorrow if he saw it fall. He glared into his brother's face, just daring him to do it. He never did though. Somehow Yarrow managed to keep himself from bawling like the little baby that he was. Kingsfoil nodded, pleased. He backed away from the hybrid to give them some space for what they were about to do next. RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Yarrowfeld - Jan 09 2016 Yarrow just stared up at King, confused, and he looked around, his hands clenching and unclenching as he looked for something. Uhh-? A fight, a fight, you tried to hurt the opponent in a fight, didn't you? He felt so nervous and scared just thinking about it. How did one go about hurting someone who made you dizzy just looking up at them? What should he do, punch his tall, elegant leg? He felt panic rise in him, the need to impress his brother that expected so much of him, but he had no idea where to even start. He picked up a rock and held it in his hand, glancing up at King like it would give him the answers he needed. He felt...something...answer his desire to impress his brother. Yarrow didn't know what it was, but the tiny little spikes coming from his back glowed with multi-colored light, and he felt himself pull...something...from himself. It was very strange, very very strange, and Yarrow's face scrunched up in worry and fear. Did he do it? Did he impress his brother? All that seemed to happen was that Yarrow felt extremely tired, and condensation appeared on the tips of his fur from no where, like he was suddenly drenched in water. He didn't like this at all. Attempt: Uhhh??? Defense: None Injuries: Is a super crybaby Now is soaking wet???? RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Kingsfoil - Jan 09 2016 It finally seemed like he'd been whipped into shape or at the very least motivated to do something besides snivel and whine like an idiot. Now he just looked to be staring like an idiot. The mutt picked up a rock and stared at it like he was braindead. Kingsfoil could feel his already thing patience waning. "Hurry up and do something, mutt!" His father always preached patience but when it came to his hybrid brother he had none. The younger brat just always instilled some sort of deepset hatred within him no matter what he tried to do. Even now as he was "helping" Yarrowfeld he only did it because he'd gain a soldier and possible a notch on his belt for training such a waste. @Yarrowfeld RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Yarrowfeld - Jan 10 2016
Yarrow hated this, he didn't know what to do any he didn't know what just happened and with King yelling at him his mind went blank and he was just he couldn't think. He was scared and his belly was churning with panic and nervousness and the need to perform well under stress when he had no idea what he was doing. He wished that King would just tell him what to do, how to fight, how to protect himself, but no, his brother was just insulting him and calling him names! This wasn't helpful, and Yarrow wanted to protest, but his throat was choked by the overwhelming need to cry.
@Kingsfoil
He just wanted to go home! He didn't want this at all! His hand clenched around the rock. He just wanted this to stop! So he looked up at Kingsfoil, and he aimed to throw the rock as hard as he could between the eyes. Attempt: Throw a rock at him?? Defense: None Injuries: Is a super crybaby Now is soaking wet???? RE: Tell me I Deserve This - Kingsfoil - Jan 10 2016
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