Shivershade

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SIX - NONE; HEART - NONE; SOUL - OF NOWHERE

Shivershade never had any manners. His mother had learned long ago that teaching him was a waste of time. There was no point in the elegance of speech when his braw power could get him whatever he wished. Most souls backed down from the challenge he presented and he found it so easy to take from others which had led him to this moment with the bird between his teeth. Quickly it became a mash of bones, feathers, blood, and guts. The entire time his jaws clench together his eyes remain laser focused upon the impetuous male, daring him to come forward, daring him to test his tiny little bravery to please his strange little girlfriend. It would not end well for the youth for Shivershade would not be stopped if Asterion initiated a fight between them. He'd take the cub between his teeth and shake until his neck snapped and Achlys would have a new corpse to add to her arsenal.

The boy is smarter than he looks though. Instead he snarls and threatens and postures and Shivershade's tail rises up dangerously high as he glares down at the boy and subsequently swallows the mash of bird in his mouth. Feathers cling to his lips and chin, blood speckles his cheeks. "I'd watch your mouth, boy, before you end up like her little friends there. I wonder if she'd play with you just the same." He growls at the boy and snaps his jaws towards him, making sure that the sound of his teeth grinding together echos in the caverns even as Achlys gently picks up her friends, moves them, and turns to him with her own words.

"Ah, what a kind lesson, mistress, perhaps I'll take your words to heart," he mocks back at her, clearly dismissing her as he once more glares at the retreating figure and pads off. After all, he has accomplished his goal and now that he has filled the rest of his belly with a free meal it is time to go back to his den for a nice nap.