My brain thinks |open,return| it's looking at a stranger

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  • How long had it been?
    Realistically it had been around two weeks, half a month, but to a concussed brain damaged moose that had so many troubled thoughts within his brain, it felt like it had only been a few days since his departure.
    So, why did he go?
    Many reasons, all disturbing, all torturous to think of. His mind was deteriorating, fading away significantly so that he had started being violent, he had started being loud and Unpredictable in ways he never ever was before. He was a threat to the clan, to those he loved and he had to leave before hed make his faniky ache. He had to find a cure to his own insanity but as his search ended up hopeless and after he had underwent some rather unfortunate, reocurring episodes of self mutilation that left him more broken than ever, Atticus realized he couldnt fix this withiut risking things. His brain had been damaged, mis motor skills poor and it was made significant with a tremble in his knees and uneasiness in his steps.
    His original plan of using Lithium was proven ineffective for he could not find such ore, so, the veteran turned to something he knew worked despite its many negative side effects.
    Opium.



    So, the moose collected opium poppy seed pods wherever he came across them, biting into the little thing and sucking it's content until a proper dosage was found.
    it worked.
    His emotions grew more easy, more consistent and balanced. His hallucinations died down when taken at a certain dosage, however, he grew incredibly lethargic, drowsy and exhausted under the influence of the drug. His breathing grew more poor and he found himself often light headed. Once again he was addicted, but he had no choice but to cling onto his last remaining form of sanity that would probably end in the death of him due to the strain upon the body.
    But, like he had thought, something had to be risked for an easy mind.



    His moods were balanced, his phsychotic symptoms controlled, it was time to go home.
    The moose walked onto the Windclan border, there was a tremor in his knees due to his brain damage, there were scars littering his body - especially over the premature velvet of his head and the cranium region.
    The most significant scar upon the male, however, was a huge gash over a side of his throat, a cut that had split his jugular in a desperate attempt to escape life.
    It seemed like the moose had returned in a much more severe physical condition.



    Unaturaly dilated pupils fixed themselves ahead to stare over the horizon, anticipation and anxiety wringing the male's heart as he waiting for somebody - anybody.
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  • [center][fancypost=border-width:0; width: 365px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5; font-family: arial; font-size: 7pt;]Luke should not have been out. He should have been in camp resting and tending to his broken leg. Instead, he was out. He didn't want to rest. He partially blamed himself for Henry and Sanepaw's capture, even if they weren't directly his own fault. He could've been stronger and fended their attackers off, but he wasn't. It motivated him to try harder now, and as soon as he was capable he would spend more time focusing on his practice than he had before.


    He paused, catching the scent of someone familiar and he followed it the short distance to the border. Finding the moose and seeing his condition, Luke's eyes widened. "Atticus?"


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  • He had seen many different kinds during his stay at the asylum, drugs abusers, mentally ill people, self harmers, pyromaniacs, all of them thought to be worthless by society. Despite this they had all seemed like nice people at heart, and he eventually made it his goal to become friends with everyone. To show people that they didn't deserve to be treated the way they were. He knew how to avoid sensitive subjects, calm someone down, convince them to take their medicine, and read the signs of someone using again. So when he saw Atticus's eyes and wounds, he didn't bring them up, instead putting on his regular smile for the moose.



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  • Atticus had not met Luke many times before and due to his brain trauma and the damage the major organ had gained, when he saw the Skywalker the male's identity slipped over Attie's head. He squinted and scanned the other in a confused manner. A lion - Vader was a lion. But Vader was metal, this guy was... Not.
    Realizing that he had nodded off, the moose's head jerked up and he quickly stammered out a response towards his first greeter.
    "Y-yes, it's me." The former deputy would stutter out, eyes darting over from Luke to Sanepaw, the identity of the young apprentice also foreign to him. His memory was toussled, his mind a wreck, he could barely differentiate acquaintances from strangers.
    "I'm sorry I... What're your names again?"


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  • "I don't beleive I've properly introduced myself anyway. The name's Sanepaw, but Bane is fine!" His tone was as cheerful as always, if not a bit subdued. How much did the deputy remember? He hoped that the moose would at least remember Henry, he would hate to see the old man's heart broken even more. The guy seemed pretty sad to start with, and Kate and Atticus's departures didn't help much.



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    Oliver Queen-Stark
    "The Arrow"


    He knew that outline anywhere. "Atticus? I thought you were dead," he said as he flew down and landed by the others. He caught the smell of the moose and frowned. "Why do you smell like Riverclan?" Had he really been alive this whole time, and fled from his actions without taking responsibility?


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    When you feel my heat
    Look into my eyes
    It’s where my demons hide
    It’s where my demons hide
    {Demons by Imagine Dragons}



  • Sanepaw? Atticus nodded as he let the name work itself into his memories.
    At least someone here was sane enough to earn such a title of a name, the male would think to himself before bowing his head in respect towards the child. The moose opened his maw to speak but then Oliver caught the cervid's attention and he held his breath to allow the other man to speak. At the first sentence the male's ears flattened and he looked away in a rather shameful air.
    In another world, he could have been. The gash upon his throat made it evident.
    His sheepish, submissive demeanor would then be taken over as Oliver spoke of Riverclan and immediately the gigantic moose grew defensive. He jerked his head up and let a huff spill through his nostrils.
    "I needed help. I knew I wouldn't hurt anyone I loved there."
    His words came out edged like the bottom of a knife's blade but then he sighed and lowered his eyes to the floor below.
    They wouldn't understand.


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    Someone had come home. A leap of dark hope twisted through her like a serrated blade, pulling out several ghosts of her mixed memories forward for her to experience in a flash of minutes. Charteredstars return, the joy of his mentor's resurrection made Cosmic smile again; a bright light she'd been missing. The days, weeks spent waiting for her friend, Alaska she had loved as a sister. The depression that followed was nearly crippling as the days continued to pass without her back. Those weeks spent patrolling the borders of Windclan, watching out for any glimpse of Cosmicknight, a piece of her always hoping that'd he would come back before their litter was born. There was... an uncountable number of others that traveled before her eyes in a scorching flame.


    It hurt.


    The thin wolf approached silently, the trail of wildflowers behind her this time a very dark-near black-purple, her golden optics passing over the moose as she attempted to place him. But Victorian was too tired. Too tired to place anyone at the moment. She relaxed down onto her haunches a few feet away and watched the reunion quietly, occasionally glancing back at the scattered couple of bees that had followed her flower path and now hummed around her.


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    Oliver Queen-Stark
    "The Arrow"


    He hadn't meant to come across as very accusatory, or perhaps he did. One thing he didn't mean, though, was to cause offense to the former deputy. "I'm glad you got help," was what he simply stated instead as he nodded.


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    When you feel my heat
    Look into my eyes
    It’s where my demons hide
    It’s where my demons hide
    {Demons by Imagine Dragons}