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Poking the Bear - Devrum - 12-30-2018 It didn't take a fool to realize Ashetta had been avoiding Devrum. Hell she had been avoiding everyone under the sun. So much so it cost her, her own marriage, though the weight of that loss and how it effected the other was up for debate. When Vervain spoke of her meeting with Devrum had taken this all in account, but he was none the less displeased at her lack of faith in a family she seemed to desire not so long ago. The massive black bear padded along the grounds, large snout sniffing as he tracked the wolf's wear abouts. The trail, oddly enough, wasn't too far off from the home he had been building for he and Vervain. The beast went still at the sleeping wolf, hazel and green eye dilating as drool slowly dripped from its jaws. Thick fur rumbling as the black bear began to slowly circle the wolf in a stalking manner. Its belly rumbling with a continuous growl before he called to her with a blaring roar that shook birds free of their branches above. Had the wolf awoken, she would find the massive paws continuing to thump as it circled her once more. Stopping before the wolf before it slowly began stalking forward toward her. Snout flaring, drool spewing, eyes narrowing with intensity as its large belly and back heaved with its breath. RE: Poking the Bear - Ashetta - 12-30-2018
RE: Poking the Bear - Devrum - 12-30-2018 The black bear continued to lumber over in an unblinking glare. Belly and fur still rippling with the growl that seemed to stew. Feral eyes held the wolf's as his large snout sniffed against her. At first it seemed the Bear relented and was going to sit back. Instead his large paw swatted down and pinned the wolf to the ground, leaning his weight against the law to hold the wolf down. As its large head lowered to the wolf's, dagger-like teeth showing as the drool dripped onto her. [Say]"I told you, you break his trust...you break my trust...I would break you. You said...You would let me..."[/say] Growled the Bear to the wolf in the manner only attuned could communicate with. [Say]"In another day, in another world, in another life...I would snap your neck like a twig. It would cost me NOTHING but to just squeeze down and hear you...snap..."[/say] Claws from his paws slowly began to slip out as only a slight bit more pressure was applied. [Say]"You are a liar...filth...broken, and there is nothing or no one that can save you, not even yourself."[/say] The bear growled as it leaned closer. [Say]"Is that what you want me to believe? Is that what YOU want to believe?"[/say] The law squeezed down again, only briefly before it suddenly began to ease up. The feral eyes blinking, as the drooling jaws shut. [Say]"You're a stupid girl. You're stupid... and there is no punishment that can be given to you that you haven't given yourself. I was like you. Stupid. We're monsters, you and me. We've done things we will never forgive ourselves for. We got blood that will always be on our hands no matter how much we wash them. You can't outrun what you are right? If that's what you believe, than you aren't a monster. You ain't a murderer or filth. You're far worse. You're a coward...and no daughter of mine will ever be called a coward. Get up. Taking you home. Unless you are a coward...than You wait for me to turn my back and you go, but don't ever come back. Your choice."[/say] The bear communicated as it turned away and began lumbering deeper into the woodlands. Had Ashe decided to follow Devrum he wouldn't be taking her to Vervain, but the home was building for her, for them. He'd arrive, body rippling as he shifted back into his human form. RE: Poking the Bear - Ashetta - 12-30-2018
RE: Poking the Bear - Devrum - 01-06-2019 Devrum kept his back to Nose twitched against his full beard as he picked up vacant lumber sprawled around into semi organized stacks. [Say]"Who is he? Don't recognize the scent."[/say] Devrum asked in a rather curt manner as he kept his eyes away from Ashe, stacking wood with no real purpose than to keep his hands busy. [Say]"Would be mighty fine of you to give some sort of sign to your mother that you're alive and well enough. She deserves that much before you go off doing whatever it is you're doing."[/say] Lifting a rather large stump, Devrum's body mass slightly increased as a more animalistic growl was heard as he flung it with an authoritative thump into the pile. [Say]"Is it worth it?"[/say] He asked, his voice more guttural before he turned to finally look at her. His body rippling into its normal state. [Say]"Whatever it is you're doing that has driven you from all of us without rhyme or reason? Is it worth the price of what you lost already? Or you figuring to one day come back to us when there is nothing else left for you but to do so."[/say] Devrum had thought he and Ashetta shared a mutual understanding or one another. Both endured horrors best left unspoken unless it was to one another. Ashetta endured her trials, Devrum his own...Both being tales few could stomach. If she had needed someone to come to, to understand, he thought he would have been the first one to come to...but alas it seemed she was content going about this self discovery with everyone but the people who had made it clear they were there for her. Vervain had cheated death and crossed another world to be with her, and was the only true family Ashetta had. It was her uncertainty of her daughter's whereabouts that truly vexed Devrum. Though the alienating of everyone else did not do much to soften the blow. [Say]"What does it matter right? Doesn't mean a damn what I say. Come morning you'll be long gone. Words in one ear out the other, doing whatever it is you have to do. Right?"[/say] Hands rested over his sides as he looked over Ashetta. [Say]"If you plan on staying til then, be useful and get a fire going."[/say] He'd motion to a makeshift fire pit made with stones for Ashe to stoke if she wanted to as he ascended the newly finished steps to what appeared to be a porch area. [Say]"When you finish with that come on up."[/say] If she had met with Vervain already, it was clear she had taken the good cop method, and Devrum the bad cop. Though in truth, there were multiple forms of ammunition he counted for, for his frustration with the girl. RE: Poking the Bear - Ashetta - 01-11-2019
RE: Poking the Bear - Devrum - 01-14-2019 [Say]"Right..."[/say] Devrum responded curtly to her mention of this old friend. Nose twitching as he made a mental note to store his scent. He heard [Say]"Unfortunately, unlike you I value the idea of a family. The fuck are you thinking? One moment you're climbing on me like a fuckin squirrel, can't shake you away...The next you fuck up your marriage, cut me off, your mother...but you ran into an old friend. Am I not supposed to think that's a coincidence?"[/say] Devrum turned to regard her fully, crossing his arms over his chest as he leaned back on a nearby beam. [Say]"I thought we figured eachother out you and I. We held a mutual understanding because we were survivors from fucked up hands dealt to us, and don't feed me that I wouldn't understand bullshit because of any fuckin person, ANYONE...I would have!"[/say] Devrum shook his head in frustration. [Say]"Fuck sake Ashe..."[/say] He growled, fighting against every instinct to let the beast out. [Say]"You think you didn't deserve a normal life? Didn't deserve to be loved, married, protected by a mother who cheated death for you and a father who would have done anything for you? You think don't deserve this life then, right? I mean what's the difference, we're both killers, I was forced to eat my victims. What right do I have to be loved, to build a family and do right by the chances given to me? You don't think I get the urges? I do. Every fucking night, but I found a way. You think I don't know who or what you are? Think none of us do? Than you're more full of shit than you think. It's easy to think that way to excuse your stupidity, fact of the matter is you have no fucking clue who you are anymore, and instead of turning to the people prepared to help you find that out, you shut yourself off, because it's just easier to give up. You're my daughter, I'm obligated to love and protect you. No matter how much you fuck up. Whoever it is, that kept you from us, Kalt...does not carry that same protection. You do, whatever the fuck it is you feel you have to do, because you're going to anyway...but if I see him, if he disrupts the life I'm trying to build with your mother in any way...I'll kill him. I mean every single word of it. I'll kill him, and you won't like what I leave behind. You can tell him that if you like, makes no difference. He stays away from this family."[/say] There was a stone cold tone in his voice as in, if Ashetta wanted to sway his thoughts or intentions it would be rather futile. [Say]"There was a point being a family actually meant something to you. You need to decide whether that's changed."[/say] |