Just Older [OPEN]

[Dingo]

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» CASSIUS

Cassius looked distant, as if he wasn't entirely paying attention to the situation. It startled him when his father snapped at them. He shuddered, looking at Kururu, who he hoped wouldn't do anything too stupid. He shuddered and looked away towards his father, his head tilted slightly. What was Ku referring to?
The young Caliver looked from Cocaine, then Nerante, then Ryssor, then back at Cocaine. He had a bit of a spacey expression on his face, as if he was trying to figure this out. He swallowed, finally seeming to catch onto what was happening. All three of them were.. conspiring. They were in cahoots. That was it! They had both selected the strongest female in the pride to bear their cubs and then.. compete with each other for the next open high rank? The next healer? Oh, he had to be right.
Huh.. Cassius wondered how Kururu had figure all of this out before him. How barbaric, but Cass wouldn't put it past them. Barbaric but.. interesting.. Family drama that didn't involve him, but this Ryssor lady. Scandalous! The male's face lit up very briefly. It was none of his business, but he suddenly wanted to discover more.
It was clear he didn't know any of them very well at all.
"Oooh, make him eat it." The petty reaction to the tongue threat was barely audible. He smirked rather deviously, then put a paw to his mouth as if the words had accidentally slipped from him. He was probably going to get beat up later. It wasn't long until his expression returned to its characteristic sulk; his posture - the usual slouch.
Looking at his father made him shiver again. Everybody held such cold yet emotional looks. An interesting sight, but he didn't want any of those looks directed towards him. He averted his eyes and stared at Novocain. So what if his half siblings were bastards? It had happened before, and it was bound to happen again. He didn't think it was that uncommon, but Cassius didn't much realize the significance and sentiment of this complicated web of relationships. Still, he didn't really think it was a big deal, and he surely didn't look down on his father for it. Cassius raised a paw to rub at the cuts on his chest from the battle. Perhaps things would be different if he knew the whole story.

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"speech" // thought

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[Caylis]

Evangeline made her way up to the winged healer with a curious gaze before smiling to him and making her way over to her mother, and then nuzzled her lovingly before sitting between Cocaine and Ryssor with a curious look. Every now and then, she would smile at her mother and looking up to Cocaine curiously. "C-C-Cocaine? Mama? Papa? Watch dis!" she squeaked with a playful smirk before looking to her siblings and roaring.. sort of to them as if she were to 'challenge' them into cute play fights.

[Noa]

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Ryssor didn't know what to think. What to do. She just sat there, flanked by her cubs, watching as Nerante walked away from her life. She'd lost his trust and respect. If she was going to show any kind of emotion in front of everyone, it was going to be now. Full of regret. Her eyes moved over to the cubs she knew were Cocaine's - Atryn, Caesar, Evangeline.. it was too obvious. Her eyes flicked up to the other's nearby - Cocaine and his children. Her eyes narrowed particularly to Kururu and Cassius, whom she had not been on familiar terms with. But she could tell that they were talking about something. Talking under their breath, judging and silently being curious. If anything, Ryssor would just give them credit and move on. But she just felt grounded, floored, humiliated. She didn't even hear the calls of her own cub, asking for her attention.

Firenze just stood by Cassius, and looked up at him with a curious look. "Wouldn't that taste bad?" He asked in his own cublike way. But then he realised that if you ate your own tongue, how would it taste? He wrinkled his nose, suddenly forgetting about everything and just trying to solve the question he'd laid out before him.[/color][/td][/tr][tr][td][/table][/center]

[kahara]

COCAINE, NOVOCAIN, NERANTE, NERRY

[/i] He whispered the last part of his sentence, though Cocaine had heard it and rolled his eyes while he glanced back at Ryssor and her cubs.

It wasn't hard to tell that Cocaine, their commander, was getting older. The older he got, the more he learned about things he thought he'd forgotten. The flame of what was honest love had been brought back into light, and with it, a tender love and patience for his children. It may reflect badly on the cubs of his past, but he didn't mind as much. They, too, would feel his patience in the way he allowed for new breaks in training, and even skipped training sessions. He had more mane than ever before in his life too. It grew out and made an old man of him; but make no mistake, the old man could still tear off your jaw, given the chance.

Cocaine kept quiet, to himself most of the time. He rarely shared his thoughts with Stella, his.. previous mate? He hardly knew what she was now. There was still a tender spot there for her, and he did appreciate her raising of the children. If Cocaine needed to make anything clear, it was that he once held feelings for her, but they no longer existed. That they were less than what he had for Ryssor now. It may hurt, but honesty was a deserving trait in such a situation he found himself in.

His thoughts traveled to his mother, KIller, and Cigar. KIller had gotten with his father after Dante had died. Did she truly love Cigar, and if so, was everything Cocaine had done okay? Stella had not died, but their love had. In that way, the commander felt okay about what he'd done and how he felt toward Ryssor. But Nerante was there. He loved Ryssor as much as Cocaine did, maybe even more. Did Cocaine's mother ever have this problem on her paws? Cocaine wouldn't seek advice, but had his mother or father been alive, he may have implied the need for it.

But KIller was dead and his father was presumed as well.

Nerante tilted his head slowly toward Cocaine. The Commander seemed deep in thought. And he wouldn't be the only one. Nerante turned his head away and left himself to think; though in quiet. No one would know his thoughts. Not even you, reader. Nerry, however, continued to climb all over. It didn't help his thinking process.[/ul][/blockquote]

[Dingo]

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» CASSIUS

Cassius sat and proceeded to dwell on his thoughts until the voices of cubs distracted him. He looked down at the two near him, realizing that they had heard him. He rocked back on his haunches with a roll of the eyes. "Oh, I don't know. I'm starting to think it sounds like a better and better idea by the minute." The whole tongue thing, he meant. He rolled his own tongue around in his mouth for a few moments almost automatically.
"I don't recommend that you explore that idea. And I certainly don't play, sorry." He would tag along though, for the sake of something to do. His blue eyes dared to flicker back to the three older ones though. They were being quiet. What were they thinking? Probably that they wanted the kids out of their fur. Cassius wasn't a kid anymore, he thought, but he wouldn't be heartbroken at the thought of getting out of there either. When he had his fill of staring, he yawned and looked back at everyone else. "Nevertheless, there's other things we can do."

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"speech" // thought

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