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[indent][indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=#808080]There’s something in watching everyone rerun the courses that has Theron on edge, something misplaced, and he can’t quite figure it out. It’s not the announcement of places and times; he’s finished somewhere in the top, and while uncompetitive, it does gladden him to know that an impression has been left, for whatever it is worth. Even though, for just a moment, he had felt the wavering barriers of his control slip, with claws pricking forth, unbidden yet responding to the teetering balance he maintained, to coexist with his primal instincts and channel those strengths into his human reign. Muscles quivered and bunched, abdominals rolling and clenched taut, a burn coiling that slowly spread out, even coating the back of his throat. The brim of his cap shields that amber glow of his eyes, elbows resting across stilled knees, long fingers draped and lax, with only minuscule twitches noted in the slight callouses of his palms. [/color]

[color=#808080]Those who had failed naturally paired with others, and with a muted observation, Theron opted to watch for multiple reasons and purposes that are academic and lesser for the pleasure of simply being around people. Animals kept well enough company, but the echoing expanse of howls and bleats left something to be desired, which made the more tangible qualities of conversing with someone all the more apparent. He had discovered that in his brief meetings with Callista, whom he observed leaving the arena, before his gaze flicked back, watching as the redhead in her group attempted the course, fumbling and uncertain, even assisted and coaxed along by a familiar figure. Soon and perhaps helplessly, Theron is easily distracted by a slender ebonette, then by hourglass shapes accompanied by athletic men; he attempts to pair their names to their faces, and fails miserably enough to relinquish the task to mere fancy. He’d come to know them later, right? [/color]

[color=#808080]Slowly, Theron stands to his full height and rolls his shoulders back, muscles undulating beneath the black cotton of his jacket. There wasn’t much to do here, even with a few individuals lingering here and there… He recognizes the twins from the shadows, as his canine counterpart would, but in a scant moment of uncertainty, he fails to devise a reasonable approach. [i]Hello, I was watching you earlier as you traveled up the mountain?[/i] Maybe if he knelt down and allowed fur to overwhelm the prickling flesh coating his bones, promote and provide himself as a dog rather than a man, but then again, they were cat people. Something told him then that the brother wouldn’t appreciate it, despite the sphere of tranquility or ease he exuded. At least she, with her dark hair and bright eyes, a kindness there that bespoke of quaint sorrows, appeared approachable. If anything, he contemplated, it was a connection unbeknownst to either… In the finality of it all, Theron didn’t say anything, as his usual grace, he ducked his head, shunted his cap down farther to conceal the golden glimmer of his vaulted sensory debacle, and ducked out of the arena.[/color]

[color=#808080]He sighed once the chill of the air settled over his exposed abdomen, heat flumed upward into his chest and spread throughout his limbs, the cold refusing to settle but rather flit playfully over slender musculature swelled with latent adrenaline and nerves. Lengthy gestures massaged over the nape of his neck whilst his eyes glimmered, reminiscent of a skyline, with the amber gradually feathering away into soft wisps of golden tendrils that bled away from the blue of a dawning sky and the verdant silence of a tempered forest. [/color]

[color=#808080]Whenever he had been presented to a new family, to a new home, Theron always explored their homes, their yards. Whenever he would wander into new forests and fields, he would scent every league and blade of grass and branch. He knew well enough the outer perimeter of the camp, but its innards were foreign, the veining paths unknown with so many scents alchemized to produce a rich medley of life. Theron clutched his ruined shirt in one hand, his opposite flexing. [/color]

[color=#808080]In one instance, he stood just outside the arena, venturing off into the shaded wall before a mortal physiognomy yielded to a bestial mien: elongated snout, dappled face of grey, a body of silver and white with cunning eyes shimmered bright and feral. Theron shook out the feathery soft pelt of the hound, the shift easy, second nature, preferred and favored where his human self failed. Nose to the ground, he began loping off toward the stables, passing by the fences carefully and easily with his elongated stride. The horses within were alerted to his presence and, peeking yonder scattered stalls as his shape pranced by. Curious rather than fearful. He wove through the thickets of trees that acted as barriers around some of the cabins, ducking low beneath frosted windows and quivering lights within. Soon, snows and grass gave way to gritty expanses of a beach with its quieted lake stretching out before him. There, a sort of calm overtook him, tempering him, briefly, as his canine self appreciated the picturesque quality of the moment and convinced him to approach the shoreline.[/color]


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