You Are In Charge of Your Own Destiny...[Starting &Accepting

[stormy tom]

Kenton -- panther -- alone again

Kenton shoved his hands into his pockets, trudging through the forest wondering what sort of interesting characters he might meet. It did not take him long to fully recover from being landed on. He climbed a tree nimble and sat on a branch, just like he always did, back to the trunk. He dug in his jacket for his notebook and pen, opening to the next page and starting to write again.
I feel like I somehow helped humanity. I know, shocking. Me, helping anyone? Why do I even care about other people? They don't care about me. Well, truth be told, it wasn't too bad. She probably would died if I hadn't broken her fall. The word 'caught' is too far-stretched. She landed on me, end of story. I think my rib cage got squished inwards. Thank-you momentum and gravity for all of that. Force is a cruel thing.
So, here I am, sitting in a tree, alone again. Maybe I'll do some more hunting. End of entry.
He sighed, put the book away and leaned back, closing his eye. What good did it do, writing down such minute and unimportant details of his lonely life? Not much, since he wasn't emotional enough tow rite down how he felt. It was something he was working on, getting emotions out instead of keeping them all inside to mix and bake into some weird cake.
I'm a mess, he thought, admitting it to himself as he drifted off to sleep.

[huddson]

Arthes Grizzly Bear☀Rogue☀Female☀With Kenton

Arthes looked around where she had ended up. There was a slight imprint of something on the ground, surrounded by pines needles and some bark, as if somebody had fallen. She looked up and saw a guy just sitting on a branch. She didn't know whether to wake him up, steal his stuff or just leave him alone. She hid her bag and Winter underneath a nearby berry bush. Then she climbed up the tree in human form. Transforming into a bear, she growled loudly in his face in an attempt to wake him up.

[stormy tom]

Kenton -- panther -- Arthes

Knew it, he thought as he was ripped from a rather pleasant dream about chocolate cake and fluffy kittens. He came face to face with a bear, which was growling at him.
Kenton lifted a finger, a sarcastic scowl plastered on his disapproving face, and flicked the animal on the nose. No wild beast in its right mind would climb all the way up here just to growl at him. It would have just eaten him. He'd considered judo-flipping the bear right off the branch, but that would just be mean. He faced the creature instead, with eyes no less cold than they had ever been.
People were doing a great deal of approaching today. The Englishman didn't say anything, he just stared at the bear, awaiting an explanation.

[huddson]

Arthes Grizzly Bear☀Rogue☀Female☀With Kenton

Arthes backed up a little so she would have room and transformed. "Who are you?", she growled, as if she was still a bear. "And care to explain why you're up here, and why it looks like somebody fell?" She looked around, her gaze resting on the imprint on the ground. "And don't say it isn't my buisness. Anything that happens in this forest is my buisness" She sat on her knees and crossed her arms, still on the branch. "And also, why did you flick me on the nose?", she asked, rubbing her nose with one hand.

[stormy tom]

Kenton -- panther -- Arthes

Kenton watched passively when the bear turned into a girl. "Someone fell," he started, "on me." He pushed his hair from his face and it fell back into his eyes. He stared at the girl from the shadows his thick bangs created. "You get this close to a person and rip them from sleep, you deserve everything you get." I could have done much worse. Was it 'fascination-with-Kenton' day?
He leaned back on his branch, one leg swinging lazily off of it, arms crossed. He had the balance of a cat, even in human form. Another thing to add to his journal, later. I flicked a bear today.... Normally, that would shock a person. A stupid thing to do, Kenton thought, if this were a regular bear. It wasn't; it was a girl, and if said girl decided to retaliate, he'd have had no qualms with fighting back. Even if it had been a real bear, he still probably would have fought it.

[huddson]

Arthes Grizzly Bear☀Rogue☀Female☀With Kenton

Arthes stiffled a laugh. "And why are you up here?" She didn't know whether to fight or not. Obviously he had an animal, or he was good as dead. But what? She looked at the way he was balancing. Perhaps a feline? From what she knew about him, it was one of the big cats. She snapped her fingers. "Yoo hoo, waiting for an answer"

[stormy tom]

Kenton -- panther -- Arthes

Kenton gave her a stare that suggested he could just transform and bite her face off any old time he wanted to.
Or run off.
"It's quieter up here. And safer, although, apparently not today." Was there something about sleeping people that made others want to bother them. "And I was, Your Impatience, sleeping. If you're blind, and did not notice, my apologies," he offered a mock bow as he slid to his feet and crouched on the branch like he owned it, which in a sense he did. "If you have no business with me, rogue, I suggest you tuck your little tail between your legs and run along. Predators don't like to share forest space, and," he added, "neither do some in this community."

[huddson]

Arthes Grizzly Bear☀Rogue☀Female☀With Kenton

Arthes scowled. "I happen to not have much of a tail, in case you're blind, and it's a free forest! I can sit on this branch if I want to" She frowned again and crossed her arms. "I knew you were sleeping, it's called I wanted to wake you up." She looked down for a second. "What animal are you, anyway?", she asked him, suddenly filled with curiosity. He was a feline and a big cat, for all he knew. She wondered if he would've asked what her animal was if she hadn't kinda showed him.

[stormy tom]

Kenton -- panther -- Arthes

Kenton sighed. "That's why I said 'little'." What would become of humanity? "And I'm not going to tell you. If I transform, it'll be to consume you, although I'm sure I could clobber you like this just fine," he met her eyes. "People don't usually take well to being woken, especially by people they don't know. And the forest is only free if nobody catches you."
He made note of that anecdote; worth remembering. He could what he liked, so long as nobody caught him doing it. Rules meant little to him. Some of them were worth regarding; they were there for a reason. But, Kenton was confident in his own ability to look after himself.
In times like these, when he was yet again driven from his personal bubble and forced to find another tree, Kenton had to resist the urge to claw this girl to shreds and be done with her.
"I'm not leaving this tree; I was sleeping peacefully, so you can fight me for it or get kicked to next week." Something about the way Kenton held himself suggested he was quite the fighter. Even in his loose jacket his muscles were clearly lean and well-toned. His t-shirt clung to tight abs. He was by no means ripped; Kenton spent a lot of time outside, active.
His position was a warning, and a consolation that he would easily give her a good fight.

[huddson]

Arthes Grizzly Bear☀Rogue☀Female☀With Kenton

"I'll back off. If. If you tell me what your animal is. Do you know how high the rates of people killed by bears are..?" The truth was she didn't know either, but Arthes was quite the liar and it was impossible to detect whether she was telling the truth or not. Honestly, what she felt like doing was finding a river and fishing, but that would make her seem cowardly. It wouldn't really be much of a help to her if she was seen as a coward. She resisted the urge to click her tongue or snap her fingers to make him answer. Now that she looked closer at him, she would not fare well in a fight.