Meadowlark Prairie Codex

as the black fox is lifted by the stranger — an invitation for wintersbane to observe it and see the similarities of the two for himself — wintersbane ghosts forward and fixing his glacial gaze upon the corpse, studying it's black pelage and the white mark upon it's chest and then, when the corpse is laid — gingerly, the tundrian notes — back upon the ground he runs his gaze over the man before him, assessing and observing him in clinical earnest. there is a grim resemblance that might've been a bit unnerving to another. wintersbane, however; isn't unnerved. he is a hellhound of mephala's own divine intervention and creation — as clever as the devil and twice as pretty — and a warrior beyond that. corpses do not perturb him even when they do bear a striking resemblances ( could the same be said if it was his own resemblance, i wonder? ). why did you kill it then? wintersbane concludes his study with a simple inquiry, curious but not accusing.

envy forms upon the stranger's expression as his eyes take in the gamma, and wintersbane has to fight the wicked quirk that threatens to twitch upon his lips. it's not as if wintersbane isn't aware that he's a eleven out of ten — can't have that much vanity without being aware of one's own physical beauty — it's just that he doesn't think about it. until he needs to use it. mephala was the goddess of sex ( among all the other things she wields and reigns over ) after all, and she teaches him that his allure is a tool and weapon both.

if you were too close, wintersbane draws on a soft chuckle. you'd know. and likely they'd be having a very different conversation. the tundrian's understandably been on edge recently and has been much more territorial than usual as a result. wintersbane's eyes flicker to the tribute briefly before his gaze falls and rests back upon the loner. i'll keep the tribute though, the gamma decides, and the corner of his mouth does quirk. unless you want it ...? a soft ( perhaps cruel since the admittance that the fox's resemblance perturbs the stranger ) tease is offered hinting at the tundrian's sometimes satirical sense of humor, with a gesture of a paw in the corpse's direction.

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