Hideaway Strath the immaculate conception

There is no warning for it as Arturo closes the distance between the growing scent of outsider within his borders. A trespass. Not an accident. This is easy enough to deduce as the scent takes him deeper into the Strath, towards where his children romp and play, where Lotte and Hemlock reside. Somedays, it is Lotte, Hemlock, Molly, Ceal and Eiri that are the only things keeping him tethered to sanity. A borderline made thinner by the permanent fissure made it in when Riptide had come into existence after his fall from Ravenshook Cliffs. On the days Arturo thinks of the witch doctor it is with composed horror and fear, it is to remind him so he does not forget, so that he may not make an unwanted appearance. He remembers at a safe, detached distance in his mind so that Riptide might never be resurrected.

A low snarl builds in the gangster’s chest as the coywolf’s he marches through the Strath with ill intent, each pound of his footfalls against the earth relay the steadily increasing beat of his heart like a war drum. He is not a man that firstly gives into violence but this is no accident (for if it was the criminal in question would not have kept moving deeper into clearly marked territory). Now the diplomatic side of the gangster was lost to him. Now, he moves with territoriality in each possessive step. Now, he moves to maim. To kill. To protect that which he holds most precious in his life.

He comes across her, knowing the territory better than she, and with tag flagged over his tail and lips curled back over canines in a low snarl. It is the only warning that Ceannsach gives though it is much too late for such things before he propels himself into action, aiming to slam his body against hers with as much speed and momentum as he can muster. He was beyond talking, now. She would leave his territory one way or another: physically or with her death and in truth he did not care which; but if she did leave it would be with a permanent reminder of what happens when someone fucks with Teaghlaigh.