Totoka River keep cool but care

yunxu is leaving here if he isn't stopped. thank you so much for the thread it was very fun!! <3

owlglass falls

and

he does not do it gracefully. his breath rushes out of him and yunxu’s own lungs catch in unwelcome sympathy. awareness rushes back like a rising tide, washing the locked fury of his muscles away, washing him clean.

yunxu’s sides heave. the pain is catching up with him now. rain mixes with the blood and caked-in seasalt on his fur; the smell makes him dizzy. owlglass looks anywhere but at him, wheezing, water washing his muzzle red. eyes glassy and bright like the sea.

yunxu loathes this man, his smiling face as he licks the blood off his lips and his words he doesn’t understand. yunxu loathes being here, in the endless pouring rain, speaking a language he doesn’t know, searching for something he might never find. it slips from between his teeth like sand, like the soft fur of owlglass’ throat.

winner, owlglass says.

yunxu laps blood dripping down his muzzle, run clear in the rain.

“谢谢,” he says, in a cut-short clipped monotone trembling with adrenaline. he turns on his heel and away, leaving owlglass on his back in churned mud and grass. back where he started. the shark’s fin trembles and cuts back under the water, and everything is still.

he needs the sea. the ocean will clear his head.