[center][fancypost=border-width: 0px; width: 440px; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-size: 8px;]a capture? he had heard tales of hostages and prisoners, but never expected riverclan itself to house one. immediately, his deadly curiousity turned onto ashe, summer greens focused with the interest of a young child, which he technically was. all he had to do was let people mistake it for bravery or some positive trait. still, the lurking threat he would soon show everyone he wasn't actually courageous or kind still impaled his heart with the icy claws of fear.
with a gracefulness inherited from ancient ancestors who walked among giants without anxiety, he slid over, limbs skittering across the camp like a spider going to his web. pale optics studied the tabby - he always wondered if tabbies were direct descendants of the tigers of legend, therefore giving most their boldness and ferociousness - with a prying gaze. she was like a captured hero, too defiant and prideful to submit to even the threatening postures of cougarstar and wrenbreeze. as if he was trying to read her soul, but afraid of being snapped at for staring, his flicked his pupils wildly, often looking to his folk to search their expressions. he raised a fictional eyebrow at the little flirting session that was trying to be set up, and although he would have loved a distraction from the molly's gaze, he forced himself to remain calm.
when the newcomer had turned her frozen emeralds to the others, inquiring of desertkit's twisted paw, his irises pressed in on his dark centers, rendering them all but knife's cuts. "desertkit is family, and she is useful in many ways. do not underestimate anyone before you know them." again, a façade of his knowledge, the second sentence formerly spoken by his uncle when beepaw had said most his cousins hated him. he cringed inside, telling himself he was uncreative and stupid to use the words he had heard before, when it was perfectly acceptable to do so.
moving closer to dez, taking his notes of ashe and his previous quotation to form the horrifying thought that she might try to lash out at the young girl, his leaf-green eyes locked on hers, their color the same, but their full identities different. raising his chin and making his posture into one of a soldier, the dwarf still watched the capture carefully.
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