The Devil's got a rifle on my front porch
Sorry?! He was sorry. Well, that was nice, wasn't it? He could be sorry all he wanted but she was still absolutely drenched and awful looking. No, no, the boy needed to be punished. That was what adults did, right? They punished those that did something wrong and by all means... Cersei wanted to be an adult. But there was one other thing adults didn't do that she couldn't help - fail, and damn was she failing. She had wanted so badly to push him around but alas, she slid almost completely off him, mouth agape in confusion as she landed with a thud, staring at her paws in disbelief. How... how had they failed? Her hesitation to do anything else but stare, dumbfounded, at her paws gave Sinclair all the time he needed to become angered, and all the time in the world for Cersei to realise that, well, maybe it had been a bad idea. Not only was she wet now but her impact had caused the dirt around them to kick up slightly, marking her black legs with a spray of mud.
She didn't turn around until he started talking, turning with a huff and watching him go to drink. Her ears lay back slightly, her brows furrowed in a look of combined confusion and concern. She could smell blood, just faintly but... there was blood and it wasn't hers. If it had been, everyone in Glorall probably would have known about it roughly five seconds after she had started to bleed.
"Hey!"
She interjected at his comment of fixing her fur, stepping forward and letting her own tiny growl rumble briefly in her chest. How dare he! What? Did he think she was some kind of prissy little girl? No! So wrong! She was Cersei - fighter, healer, speaker, best of many things and not just some girl who sat around looking pretty.
"I don't need to fix my fur! It's just fur, duh. It's made to get dirty."
She huffed, sitting down suddenly and curling her tail around her paws as she glared at him. It took her a moment to finally find the source of that blood smell - his shoulder. It wasn't much but she definitely noticed some red that hadn't been there before - she let her mouth fall into a soft 'o' as she rose once more to her feet, furrowing her brows and staring intently at the area.
"Why are you bleeding? That's not right. I'm taking a look."
She didn't wait for his confirmation and instead, loped over and immediately poked her nose towards the area, wide eyed and sniffing curiously. Well, she was going to be a Healer - or at least learn some - so why not start now? Yes, yes, he was bleeding but it wasn't much. Ah, yes, scratches. She nodded to herself, mmhm-ing as she did so until she reeled back and faced him, looking just as proud as before despite her awkward, sticky looking fur.
"See, despite your drowning attempt, I'm still going to look after you. So sit down and let me do my work."
It wasn't a question and again, she lifted one of her paws and attempted to shove him with it, trying to force him down (a pathetic attempt, nonetheless) into a seated position. Huh, thought she was some prissy girl. Yeah, right. Look, she was going to deal with blood and besides, he had totally backed down from a challenge. He could say it all he wanted, but he had definitely chosen to challenge her when he had tried to make her a hideous swamp monster.
He knows I came looking for a fight
the red princess of tesseract and caligula