run it back / power malfunction?

it'd been night when junepaw had crossed the border into solaris kingdom after spending a week in shadow veil to fulfill his duties as darkseeker in the pines, and to finally receive the order he had been waiting on for the past month. it was the first time he'd covered a larger distance since attaining the prosthetic and, thus far, he has not been disappointed. however, the spontaneous decision to return to the kingdom had been a poor one, made after attending his little sister's funeral and the infuriating meeting that occurred just before it.

to say he needed his space was a severe understatement, and so this was the reason why junepaw hadn't turned up in solaris' camp that evening. instead, he decided to spend a night under the stars. he hadn't ever been able to look up and into the inky skies and observe the stars that twinkled dully in its encompassing vastness. it was an impossible feat in the whispering pines, where the towering trees obscured all with its thick canopies. that night he fell asleep with little to truly worry about, his last thoughts of the night being of that of his late sister.

he wakes up just as the sun touches upon the horizon, and its warmth began to heat up the desert. it would have been a pleasant morning to wake up to if it hadn't been for the fact that he realized, rather suddenly, that he wasn't in the same place he had been before, and that he was standing back at the border. he doesn't notice that he's grown taller or that his ears weren't as big or that he wasn't even a cat anymore. no, he felt as if he were in some sort of dream state and, in a mild daze, stumbled over the border and towards the place he'd last fell asleep.

it was hard to look down at his own body. he wasn't dead ( no, in fact, he could see that he was still breathing - it looked as if he were just in a deep, intense slumber ), and he choked back a sound of confusion as he lifted his head and cringed. "holy shit ...what the fuck is even happening right now?" his mouth felt dry, his paws shaking as he plops himself onto the sand beside his unconscious feline body, wide amber eyes fixing themselves on his sleeping face.

"seriously, what the hell?" caught up in the numbing experience he was facing, he fails to notice anyone that would approach him as he curiously prods his own side to make sure that, with definitive fact, that he wasn't dreaming or that he wasn't actually dead. it probably looked suspicious, a dog smelling of nowhere leaning over some unconscious body - but junepaw didn't even consider this fact.

- tldr; june's possession power decides to randomly awaken itself! for now, whenever he falls asleep, he will get transported into another body until he gets a grasp for the power. currently, he's in the body of a white saluki with gold accents and is lingering by his initial [unconscious] body.

he was startled when a new voice suddenly reached him, and shuffled away from the origin's of the voice, whipping his head around to stare down the girl that approached him. his molten gaze was ablaze, his eyes narrowing at her pointless observation. what, did she think he was stupid or something? "well yeah, i can see that." he can't help but snap impatiently at rosemary, smoke trailing from between his teeth and blowing outwards from his flaring nostrils. his grouchiness stemmed from the fact that this entire situation seemed to happen out of no where, much like how it had when he had gotten his fire elementals. he wasn't even sure what has sparked this odd power awakening - was it his perpetual state of being pissed off at the world? or was it something beyond his comprehension? either way, it pissed him off, and he didn't have time for someone who wouldn't help him.

he turned his back to her to further examine his feline form, even going so far as to pick himself up in between his jaws. that was, he would have done so if rosemary and ashe hadn't asked their questions. "what?" his amber gaze, smoldering, snapped back to the two solarians standing near him. were they serious? "it's me. junepaw. y'know ...someone who's living here?" the puzzled and exasperated boy looked between the two, looking for any hint of recognition in their eyes before he turned away from them once more. "i just walked right on in. someone wasn't doing their job, apparently." he'd gotten so far into the territory and no one had stopped him. but that didn't really matter here, it was mostly june just being sarcastic since he wasn't in the most pleasant of situations currently. they'd have to forgive him for his short - tempered attitude.

he huffs as he looks over his initial, unconscious body for a long moment. "so i ...guess this isn't some kind of a weird dream." junepaw had crazily realistic dreams before, like the one of him dying, and him killing mercy. "that's me. i'm looking at myself in another person's body. ugh." he feels queasy, and he grimaces as he shuffles his pale paws against the ground. "do either of you two know how this could've happened? why i fell asleep, and then woke up a completely different person?" he pokes his siamese body with his paw again, scrunching his nose as he watched himself roll limply onto his side. "the hell ...this better not be permanent."

perhaps if junepaw hadn't been so out of it in the moment, he would have minded his flaring temper. her feeling hurt flew way over his head, simply ignored as the girl offered no solution to his problem. a part of him felt bad for getting so angry at her when she hadn't been the one to put him in the situation he was in now, but he'd simply discarded the feeling with an irate wag of his tail. it wasn't like she was exactly helping him either, so he felt in the moment that he had very little to be sorry about.

aether's coldness wasn't very well - received either, as he only rolled his eyes heavenward. he'd figured it was some kind of new power a while ago, and the dawningcrown's brother being an ass to him for no reason wasn't a good way to calm him down to say the least. "thanks for the oh so very insightful explanation, ass." he mumbled under his breath with a huff, a thicker trail of smoke curling around his slim and elongated muzzle. his lips pulled back slightly as his blunt claws curled into the sand, trying hard to ignore all of the people that were just standing around. if they wouldn't help him, he'd have to do something himself ...just like he always did, since he couldn't ever hope to rely on others to help him when he needed it.

the fur along his shoulders raising, all of the fire that wanted to spill out of him in his increasing frustration seemed to extinguish itself entirely at sangria's voice. burning amber eyes, smoldering with emotions indiscernible, shifted towards the molly as she made her way to stand in front of the three that were there. he was instantly grateful for her appearance, but the look in her eyes made him clench his jaws. pity was something he had never liked getting from others ...he'd gotten so much of it from the day he'd lost his leg, and lost just about everything else in his life, too. he never wanted it since it did nothing but make him feel like he never had anything under control but... sangria was right. he'd never gotten angry at her, never will have to heart to, if he were frank. somehow, he understood that she would truly wanted to help him, and that her promises to him weren't empty.

the saluki blinked. he hadn't realized sangria had laid her paw upon his until he heard her words. "are you okay?" was he okay? when was he ever okay? "i ...no." junepaw stammers uncharacteristically, his fiery gaze now becoming subdued, extinguished, embers of what was left over barely simmering. "i don't know, ria." the frustration was still very much clear in his voice, but his initial anger had mostly disappeared. and now he just looked helpless in his frustration, thin wisps of smoke trailing skyward steadily as he falls into a resigned silence.