tonight i'm so alone / this sorrow takes a hold

[impudentsongbird]

The mountain-lion was skittish. He leapt from rock to rock, ducked under the trees, peered through the foliage as if searching. His fur bristled with anxiety, the feeling of wrongness.

And there was something wrong. Something it couldn't comprehend. As if, when that human had touched him, it had shifted something--ruffled his fur all up the wrong way, and he couldn't get it to settle. And there was something else, too; something he couldn't quite remember which had happened at the same time. His instincts wondered why he let the humans go.

But mostly, there was something wrong, and the mountain-lion fled from being seen.

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[machaseh]

Merlin's tone brought him back to himself, and as he returned he saw the damage he had done. His face, far too expressive in this form, shut down, and he lowered what remained of his brother to the forest floor, loosening his grip on the lion's scruff.

"Yes." And that was all he said for a moment as he watched Gabriel struggle, until he said sharply, "Swami."

The boy walked toward him, remarkably steady for someone outside of consciousness, and placed his hand over Michael's on Gabriel's neck as if in a dream.

"Now, Merlin. Hurry."