Hushed Willows our time will come, too

A little out of turn(?) with permission!

Like holy crud what was with these other dumb kids?  Now there was another one showing up to be a brat?  Insert eyeroll here.  While Okeanos started off babbling away, Mali sighed in irritation and drew himself up onto his feet, but he wasn't going to follow.  No, he was countering the grey girl's own dominance with his own because this was just not going to happen.  

Screw that all, if they were going to fuss this much, then he was gonna prove a point.  He looked back briefly to Brilliance to make sure she had his back   His expression hardened and his voice lost the playful quality, Yeah right, you just wanna get us in trouble just for fun, nobody cares.  So I'm going to say this nicely just this one last time, but it's obvious none of you will ever listen to us.  Leave. Us.  Alone.

He stared her down, tail arced high over his back, standing tall and muscles tensed in case he had to prove himself -- the whole nine yards.  This was how the disputes were supposed to be solved, and they were of an age where dominance became more important.  The question was if she would give up peacefully or not.  Okeanos, the most obnoxious of them in Mali's eyes, got pretty much ignored.  And he honestly wasn't sure if Eleuthera would cause trouble or run crying off to a mommy but he was totally ready in case she did the former.  He was pretty sure that though none of them (as far as he knew) had any fighting background, that he and Brilliance would probably be better in a scrap just from sheer spite.  He spoke on just the edge of a growl (in all his voice's adolescent splendor), face scrunching up in an even more sour expression the more he continued, I'm done with all of you bugging us, trying to boss us around.  Just done.  Go away.

But if there were to be any actual scuffles, Mali wasn't going to be the one to make the first move -- he just wasn't gonna tolerate, let alone bow to, them any more.