you look like yourself
but you're somebody else.
Slow weary footfalls down the forest path. Aldric needs to make a decision to intercept the traveler and likely put himself directly into the big cat’s trap, or to find some other means of preventing the impending attack. He could call out and just let the stranger coming through the trees fend for themselves, but who could know if they would escape away or try to flee right under the predator and end up in just as much trouble if he’d said nothing.
Knowing he is probably going to regret the decision Aldric plunges down the path and is just in time to see the painted mare drawing near a dark panther crouching in the rocks above the path. “Stop!” Aldric’s deep clear voice rings out through the trees. He doesn’t see if the mare heeds, because he turns his full focus onto the cat which looks at him first with surprise and then with angry determination. It seems to be considering which of them to turn on and Aldric stomps to demand it’s attention. “Come now, you’ve got enough to worry about right here.” He tells the feline, taunting it.
The effort to call the cat down toward himself works, and the badger faced stallion is rewarded with a face to face meeting with a furious two-hundred pound cat. Aldric’s muscles coil and his lungs fill making himself look as large as he can. Neck arched and teeth bared he brings his hooves down hard on the path between himself and the panther but the creature doesn’t budge, only yowls a challenge that reverates against the rocks but doesn’t shake the sabino stallion’s focus. At least the thing has decided he is the one that needs eating.
only it aint on the surface
Aldric
@[Furia] Sorry! Here he is! <3