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i got my heart right here - Risk - 04-20-2020 risk Spirit reminds him so much of when he was a child – fearless, loud, and running headfirst into whatever adventure lay just ahead. Maybe that’s why he worries so much when the boy runs out of his sight. But Risk swallows the worry and watches carefully for the shimmer of his son’s blue marbling between the trees. His ears turn forward as he catches the sound of padded little paws bounding over crunching leaves. The boy is eager to take the form of predators like his mother despite never being shown how. It brings his father a quiet sense of pride to see him transition from each shape so naturally. “Do you intend to scare your mother?” he calls, and the crunching leaves come to a quick stop. Risk peers around a wide tree to find a young bobcat staring back up at him, snickering and giggling to himself. A smile finds his face as Spirit nods and pounces onto his leg, playing nipping at him with needle-like kitten teeth. The elder male lowers his head to breathe a snort across the child’s face in disapproval. “Your teeth are sharper than you realize. Try to dull them when you play fight, won’t you?” The finer mechanics take time. Slowly, with his eyes squinted in effort, he manages to give himself little puppy teeth instead. Risk nods and places a light kiss across his forehead before continuing forward. With each step, his fur grows shaggy and his limbs grow longer. Antlers rise from his skull until he is a towering elk. He is careful to watch for the kitten following him, which is easy considering the way he makes himself known by loudly bounding alongside him. “Step in my tracks to quiet your movements. You don’t want her to know you’re coming,” he explains. Spirit looks up at him with ever mischievous green eyes glistening. He slows his speed and seems to take his father’s advice into consideration, leaping carefully from each hoof print to the next. The elk is well aware that Sochi would most likely feign some surprise for their child, but he teaches him to properly stalk all the same. Risk doesn’t want his son to ever learn whether he comes back from the dead or not. RE: i got my heart right here - sochi - 04-20-2020 SOCHI she said a war ain't a war before both sides bleed @[Risk] RE: i got my heart right here - Risk - 04-23-2020 risk As a child, Risk used to bare sharp teeth at his brother just for fun. He hunted mice but his soft heart made him let them go in the end. He never did develop a stomach for the kill but there is some minute part of him that enjoys the hunt – the tracking, the stalking, the final leap. While Sochi would certainly best him in a fight, he could still give her a run for her money. Spirit would someday surpass them both with his natural instincts and abilities, though. He presses himself low to the ground as he stalks with his tail twitching excitedly behind him. Risk watches as his lover – did he really think of her that way? – resumes her movement. Each step is fluid and poised even with the hesitation in each footfall. He turns to look at Spirit only to find that the boy is no longer there. His ears swivel forward and he turns, first left and then to the right. There is fear evident in his eyes as he begins to panic. Just as he turns back to Sochi to call out for her, a great horned owl drops from the trees ahead of them in a silent swoop. If he looks closely enough, he can see the talons are dulled to simple badger claws. The giant bird lands on Sochi’s back and mimics rending her skin with his little feet before hopping off. In that small leap, he is a little colt with blue marbling once more. Risk exhales the breath he had been holding and picks up a small trot to catch up to them. “You went completely rogue on that one,” he says as he pulls the boy to his chest. Adrenaline still hums in his veins but he tries to settle himself. Spirit laughs and bumps his father’s chin with his nose before proudly looking to his mother. “Did I scare you too? I noticed how quiet the owls are the other night while you were both sleeping,” he boasts before realizing he’s outed himself. “While.. while we were sleeping. Heh.” He is a terrible liar. Finally, Risk has found a flaw in their otherwise perfect son. He makes a mental note to watch him more carefully but there is still some sense of joy and pride in his careful studying of the world around him. RE: i got my heart right here - sochi - 04-27-2020 SOCHI she said a war ain't a war before both sides bleed |