'cause i'm the big bad wolf

now let the games begin

Hate. Hate. Hate.

Green eyes burned bitterly through the darkness.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

Everything she saw, she hated.

HATE! HATE! HATE!

Dezba could not take it anymore.

She began to claw at her eyes. They had to come out. If they came out, she would be free. No more hate, no more loneliness. The task was more difficult that it looked. A wolf's paws were meant for digging, they could not grapple like a cats. She thrusted her head against the ground and pawed feverishly. Her nails dug out clumps of skin and fur as they sliced into her muzzle, but her eyes were unharmed. So she continued, harder, faster, until she could take the pain no more. Dezba let out of frustrated snarl. Her cursed eyes, she could still see! Blood speckled dribbled down her scratched snout, though, it was hard to see through the black fur. The juvenile she-wolf glared into the foreboding darkness, and the tunnel's aura quivered before her mounting rage as thick, sprawling briars choked its walls.

"Listen to me."
Thoughts...

TAG: @Astaroth // OOC:

Astaroth observed the she-wolf from behind, having snuck up behind her slowly. Snickering at her obvious rage. Mounting until she seemed to use some sort of magic he hadn't seen before.. interesting.. she filled the entire tunnel with briars, some he had to dodge deftly to avoid being ripped into with the thorned vines. He tried to concentrate on a few words, then pushing them from himself towards her, but instead he could only hear a ringing sound, a piercing shriek like to make his mind break. He yelped and pawed at his ears, waiting for the sound to subside. "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK!"
"Speaking."
Thoughts.
tags: @Dezba
notes:

'cause i'm the big bad wolf

now let the games begin

Burning, green eyes whipped around in the darkness, locking on the newcomer.

"Who are are you?" She snapped. "Leave me alone!"

Dezba's curled her lips, flashing her white fangs. The creeping briars eased to a stop when she noticed the other wolf. With her mind racing with the possibilities this stranger brought, her magick became starved of focus, but the anger, it never left. It was always there. However, not amount of anger could hide the uneasiness she felt. While she licked her lips in discomfort, she hadn't noticed that her tail was tucked between her legs.

She had seen a cat, a weasel, and even a coyote, and she was all bigger than them, but this stranger was a different story. Dezba was tall for her species, but even as a lanky juvenile, this wolf dwarfed her. She felt helpless and she did not like that one bit. The she-wolf bristled her coat, almost obscuring the jagged emerald between her shoulders.

"Listen to me."
Thoughts...

TAG: @Astaroth // OOC:

Astaroth growled at himself a bit once he regained his composure. Stupid! He said to himself, his ears slightly laid back. "I believe the better greeting would be 'Hello, who or how are you> My name is blah blah blah. " He said in a sarcastic voice, "Or something along those lines, so as such- Hello, what has you so pissed off? My name, is, Astaroth." He concentrated, focusing on everything he considered calming, hoping to get her to calm down a bit, and extending the feeling that washed over hi to her, his eyes glowing steadily violet. He walked closer, towering over the other wolf between the brambles. "Now what is your name?"
"Speaking."
Thoughts.
tags: @Dezba
notes:

'cause i'm the big bad wolf

now let the games begin

Dezba read the sarcastic tone in the grown wolf's voice. At first, it prodded her anger even more. She wanted to throw him a verbal stoning, but when the wolf's eyes glowed, she lost the urge. Dezba felt as if something had nullified the constant twisting of rage within her. For the first time in her life, she felt somewhat calm. It was bizarre.

The wolf called himself Astaroth. She had never met him before in her life but strangely, he felt like a friend, someone she could trust.

"Dez..Dezba" She said, somewhat shaken by her confusion. Dezba knew he had something to do with her altered emotions.

"...What did you do to me? She asked him, trying to stir up the will to be actually pissed about it, but to no avail. It was like a stone wall had blocked out that portion of her.

"Listen to me."
Thoughts...

TAG: @Astaroth // OOC:

Astaroth smiled as he saw his spell work. His ears perked up and he paced around her, examining her. "Dezba, an interesting name, a name of violence. Appropriate for one with such an obvious internal turmoil." He laughed to himself, seeing the confusion in her eyes. "I didn't do much, just enough to keep myself from being ripped apart by these brambles surrounding us." His voice almost purred as he came back around the front of her, sitting on his haunches and lowering his head so he was eye level to her, only a couple inches from her face. "Now tell me, Dezba, what has you so angry?"
"Speaking."
Thoughts.
tags: @Dezba
notes:

'cause i'm the big bad wolf

now let the games begin

She should have felt tense as the wolf circled here, but Astaroth's spell hell firm. It felt wrong, yet she was relieved. He had spared her from ever present anger, even if it was just for a bit.

Dezba looked at the mess of thorning brambles she made when Astaroth mentioned them. She hadn't noticed them. Sometimes her magick did that and she did not know way. In a way, she felt embarrassed, like she made dirt all over the floor.

"I.. I don't know." She admitted to him. "Everything I see.." She looked down at her paws. In absence of her eternal frustration, tears began to well up in her eyes. In truth, Dezba could not pinpoint the cause. Anger had always been a part of her like her tail was apart of her body. She always felt angry, and certain things brought it to the surface. "Everything I see makes me angry."

"Listen to me."
Thoughts...

TAG: @Astaroth // OOC:

Astaroth took a pause, his smirk fading as he saw.. she was crying.. he listened to what she said,and he. he cared. His malice towards her melted away like ice near a fire. He still remembered when he was a pup and had the naivete to think that this world was perfect, it had been an ephemeral experience for him but some of his best memories still came from that time.. the cat Bartos and his mentor, Kin-Kin. pff, mentor, she could fuck herself for all the mentoring she did. But.. this pup had already been deprived of that, he stepped forward, placing a paw by her and wrapping his neck around hers. "I don't know how I could help but.. if there's a way, then I would like to try. I remember what it was like being your age, I was happy as a pup, I thought everything was perfect, that nothing could be better, but, things aren't perfect. Fuck, things are fucking miserable in this cave but we have to find ways to get past it, And trust me, bloodying up your eyes and snout isn't the way to do that. This is a heavy, mad world we live in, but maybe if we team up, we can get through it."
"Speaking."
Thoughts.
tags: @Dezba
notes:

'cause i'm the big bad wolf

now let the games begin

Dezba wiped away her tears on her forearm.

Stupid, stupid!

Why did she have go and cry in front of this wolf. Tears are for hatchlings and the weak! It was this spell he casted on her, it made her... not quite herself.

However, it kept her calm enough to listen to his words. They sounded wise in a way. She wondered what that was like, to be a happy pup. Dezba couldn't think of a time when she was happy, not truly. Then he talked about teaming up. That caught her attention, but she felt fur wrap around her neck, and the spell broke.

"Don't touch me!" She growled, ripping away from Astaroth's embrace.

Dezba shuffled away from him with her tail between her legs. She need some space to process the gesture Astaroth just gave her. No one has ever touched her before, not like that. She did not understand. Dezba snapped her green gaze back to him. "Don't touch me..."

Dezba tried to remember the calm sensation that washed over her a moment ago. She took a deep breath, and relaxed her tense stance, though she was no more calm than an active volcano.

She cocked her head at Astaroth and narrowed her eyes with suspicion."What do you mean.. team up?"

"Listen to me."
Thoughts...

TAG: @Astaroth // OOC:

Astaroth blinked and shook his head in confusion for a moment. Frowning a bit and shifting his paws back and forth. "Not.. quite what I expected for my first time trying to comfort someone." He hung his head down by his paws as he looked at her, not sure what to do. "I wasn't planning on hurting you, and still have no plans to do so if you thought I was going to. I.. actually was trying to help. I don't know why, but I guess I care about you, you're the fourth creature I've ever cared about enough to want to help. Two of the others betrayed me, and the fourth I haven't seen since I was a pup." His voice trailed a bit as he spoke, it would have been obvious that he was blocking a lot of emotions as he spoke.
"Speaking."
Thoughts.
tags: @Dezba
notes: