it was with utmost promptness the creature of porcelain form took note of feliks' obvious dismay. he could feel the other's muscles tensing beneath rugged fur as an expression of utter dismay which seemingly promised swift death within it's likelihood, crossed feliks' gruff features. antigone made a note of the mental sort on not to go so far with casual flirting around the elder from now on, or at least until they became better acquainted, as he decided to stick with the basic "hello handsomes" for the time being. did he feel guilty for making feliks feel utter dismay? not in the least. antigone, however, had been groomed since birth to read others and make sure they found fondness in them as he became adept at modifying his persona to other's likings; it was more so a habit than anything. or that's what he liked to believe.
at the extra paw comment, antigone couldn't help but offer a laugh; the form of infectious warmth which filled a room in pleasantry. he had to give credit where credit was due, and such a joke was quite realistically golden. however, at the action of straining his throat, antigone winced. "Unfortunately so," antigone began, tone light and filled with a faker form of playful nature as if he were masking another emotion beneath it when it came to the matter of his kin, "But the extra paw coming from the stomach would be more so my darling brother's lucerys' turf." he recalled the now crown prince had constantly believed himself above antigone and his slew of half-siblings simply due to the fact lucerys was the child of tsubodai and sweetophilia targaryen while the rest were the offspring of bastard origins. but more often than not, no one spoke about the fact lucerys' aforementioned parents were siblings aside from antigone and now it would seem lucerys had followed in his adoring parents paw steps.
family names. antigone targaryen had learned to bestow pride in his steps due to his surname, one which was filled to the brim with history of blood and honor- more so former than the later. but even now the youth with lavender hues could see it was rather stupid a thing to be fond of, a simple family name. but in the westeros it had been his lineage, his royal right. now, now he kept it out of spite. he knew his father would be swift to ride antigone of alliances to the targaryen family, but the king could control whether antigone introduced himself as such or if he made his children carry it; and such power was a bitter spit in the face, a petty action antigone rather enjoyed.
then there was the question of why he was here. "It wasn't an option on where I wanted to go, but rather who I stumbled across first- given the situation," choices could be easily taken away under such circumstances. and antigone found it to be poetically fitting he'd end up upon the border of a clan the westeros absoultey despised. why was he bleeding- that was the other inquiry. "It's a family secret," assigning explained rather saucily, "But I'm the type who enjoys spilling secrets- depending on the time and circumstance of course. I'm one of the perhaps hundreds of children of king tsubodai, and apparently one of my siblings wished to cull the heard of compeition for next in line." antigone had been exaggerating with the "hundreds" but it truly seemed like it, given his king father's whoring habit. not that antigone was any better, he simply knew what caused babies. perhaps he was smarter than his ever high and mighty father. "But they hired a discount assassin," antigone motioned at his only half-cut neck before he offered another sickly smile lined in some form of bitterness. "I'll tell you another trade secret amongst us royals, for all the wealth they acquired they never spend it luxouisly save on themselves."
antigone was openly hateful, despising those who'd hurt him and never forgiving the aforemtnioned soles. it was a wretched, spoiled habit, but he was a wretched, spoiled, dethroned prince. "I never had a chance at taking the throne so i'm not sure why someone did this, but i digress," antigone continued, rubbing against felik's fur, "And what brings you to the cartel, Feliks? Something tells me you weren't born here.