Northstar Vale [m] Once Upon a Dream

She avoided his gaze, glancing away even as she rose and emerged from the den to stand before him. His skin crawled and his muscles ached to launch at her and throw her to the ground right there. What did it mean? Why did she let another grow so close to her, only to return here? Did she intend to use it against him? Had she been meaning to make a fool of him all this time? To take the satisfaction she had given him? She had become a weapon, all of her, every point of her existence now stood as an affront to him, because he had trusted her and held her above the others. He'd made an exception for her. Did that mean anything to her?

Without words, she exposed herself to him. The stench of the other male came in full, nearly choking him in its strength. It made his own hormones flare. His blood grew to boiling and saliva pooled in between his gums. Her bared flank beckoned to his hungry jaws, wishing to sink his teeth into her. And do what? "Dooo yoou intend to make a foool of me, Xi'nuata?" Raheerah suddenly roared, spitting each syllable in the haste of his anger. "Do you thiink I aam a creature to be tessted, Xi'nuata?" That very same fire of rage blazed within the single orange eye set into his skull, the eye that transfixed on her, searching for some kind of answer.

He hated it. He wanted the stench of the stranger to go away, for now as it lingered in the air, it taunted him. Maliciously he wished to abolish the smell, anyway he could. He wanted to destroy the other male, every and any part of him he had left behind. In the storm of animal urges that had risen within him, he was compelled to wipe away the stench with his own, if only to spite him, to spite Xi'nuata for her perceived unfaithfulness, to prove that he could not be undermined by the one he called his mate. She had left the Vale, left him, without saying anything - only to give herself to some other male and the beast could feel only anger. It infuriated him. It hurt him.