Gale
this is going to break me clean in two --
this is going to bring me close to you
He cannot See the tears in this timeline (even his Sight has limits, it seems), but he remembers the way they’d welled in her eyes, diffusing the orange glow. She’d understood, those tears had said, she’d learned her lesson.
They return to the past and there is hope in his chest, and when he whispers the command he’d been absolutely sure she would comply.
And yet she does not.
Gale has reversed time itself for her, and Mazikeen still has the audacity to refuse to follow his commands.
Why will she not break?
The attack is welcome, something simple to focus on. Her teeth tear at his neck, his and his feline claws rip into her shoulders, and the pair of them roll in the grass that in another future had been soaked with Sickle’s blood.
Gale has forgotten the child entirely, and remembers her only as he tumbles into her, knocked aside by a heavy blow from Mazikeen. He nearly rips into her again, but Mazikeen suddenly has her teeth around his back leg, and he spins about lest she sever it and he need to regrow a new one.
He’d felt the magic of time drain him, and the powers are connected. His healing will be the first to go, and the desire for self-preservation is stronger even than rage, so rather than leap at Mazikeen for another attack, he stays low to the ground, crouching and looking between the pair of them.
This is all going terribly Wrong. He’d wanted something simple - to watch Mazikeen hurt a child - and yet the child is unharmed and he is tired and the Alpha won’t do as she is told. For the thousandth time, he curses the brindle stallion and his choice in partner.
He closes his eyes, and a moment later Sickle drops to the ground. She is not dead, merely unconscious from a precise pinching of the nerves in her neck by the manipulation of her bones, but the sound of falling limbs is still pleasant.
He opens his eyes again, his breathing heavy, and fixes them on Mazikeen. When he speaks, his voice is low and cold and there is nothing but rage behind his eyes.
“Kill her.”
@Mazikeen
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