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[atrox]

a t r o x -- The Colonel does not have a name, but that does not mean Atrox has not watched him around the kingdom from his vantage point on the mountain. He walks up and Atrox cannot stop the low, rumbling laugh that pours from his throat—turning his large head toward him. “Not nostalgic,” he growls as his lips pull back from the glinting sharpness of his teeth. “Just hungry.” A half-truth. He was indeed hungry, but he had never quite found the stomach for horse flesh. Bloodshed, however, was another thing entirely. Of course, his fun does not last, it never does, as the Raven-Queen approaches the groups. He sighs dramatically as she positions herself near the duo, “Just can’t leave me alone, can you?” With a discontented grunt, he rolls his shoulders and shifts seamlessly back into his black equine form, shaking out the thick mass of his mane. “I was about ready to have dinner,” he whined at her, his yellow eyes glinting mischievously behind his tangled forelock. His sharp gaze cuts toward the stallion, “No offense, of course. I am sure that you are intelligent, strong, valuable, etc. etc. but when you’re hungry, you’re hungry.” He rolls his eyes. “I am not that old,” which was of course a lie. His body was littered with scars from lives lived and deaths reversed. One of his favorites was a subtle one above his breast; he liked to imagine it was from the Chamber dipping her greedy hands into his chest. Not that he could be sure. More than likely it was one of many he had earned in the heat of battle. “Have you been counting the days since you last saw me lurking, love? How touching.” He did not feel much like defending himself—his absence or otherwise—and did not attempt to. Instead, he lifts his shoulders in a casual shrug, his arrogance rolling off of him in waves. Finally, he turns back to the original stallion to approach him and he eyes him for a second before giving his name like a bullet. “Atrox.” One corner of his scarred lips lift into a haughty smile. “My name is Atrox.” panther-stallion | ex-king | forever chamber guardian