4th Protocol--[Action]

[idkmybfforin]

[Of late, the resident bluejays seemed to have taken a liking to harassing the big black feathery thing in the backyard. They hadn't until recently, but the word seemed to have gone out. The big scary raven wasn't so scary anymore, being droned

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[zombee_slayer]

[Dempsey just kind of stared, almost wishing he had some popcorn right now.] Damn it's not every day ya see something like this.

[idkmybfforin]

[...aaand Okuu's caught one! By the tail--and then one of the feet. The rest of the not-so-poor-jay came in pieces, as the raven tore the hapless bird apart.

Then she looked up at this new spectator, as if just noticing him. And...considering Utsuho, she probably did just that. She is not the brightest crayon in the box by any stretch of the imagination--which is probably why she has found an exceptionally violent method of stress relief.

There's still some of the jay's entrails in her beak, by the way. Like really awful and morbid spaghetti.]

Unyu?

[zombee_slayer]

Fucking brutal, always knew this place was jacked up.

[idkmybfforin]

Unyu.

[She fluffs and shakes out her feathers, "ears" still up. She drops the guts in her bill out of disinterest, and glares at the jays clustered in a nearby tree.

...and at the man standing over there, albeit more suspiciously. Or as suspiciously as a raven with no real facial muscles could look. Are you going to interrupt my misguided attempt at stress relief are you, Are you?]

[mansfirsttrap]

[The neat thing about being a Beast Master is that you are able to hear creatures and animals of any sort talk, scream or anything of that nature. So what happens when you get a mix like that, you'll have a man bolting out to the yard and making a call out to the raven after witnessing a flock of birds and a nearly dead one on the ground.]

Utsuho! Utsuho!!

[idkmybfforin]

[Utsuho stops mid-chase, as if prevented from further motion by an invisible wall. She lands on the ground and turns to look at Enkidu, without the dull haze of a drone in her eyes.

Instead they are bright with anger; the raven is frustrated, feathers all puffed out and her false-ears up. She caws, harshly, and tears at the grass with her claws.]

[mansfirsttrap]

[Enkidu lets out a sigh and makes his way towards the raven, slowly extending his hand out to her as he kneels down for her to climb on upon. He didn't even need his beast mastery to tell that she was upset.]

Utsuho... it's okay. They are gone now. You've made your point with them... come here. Let me take a look at you. I'll need to see if I can fix any injuries or mend to your feathers to help you recover.

... after all, we can't have you looking like something terrible has happened when she come back.

[idkmybfforin]

[Utsuho stays a stubbornly resistant featherball a moment more.

...before her master is mentioned, however obliquely.

Then the raven seems to deflate. Her ears smooth down, her feathers are drawn in, and her head droops. When she caws, there's very little of the ferocity of before in it.

She cleans off her bill on a wing before slowly trundling over to Enkidu's outstretched hand. The raven's a bit slow about stepping up, but she gets there.]

...unyu.

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[inababanchou]

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[ Souji is watching the spectacle from 1251 Williams Road, coming out of his house. ]

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[idkmybfforin]

[The raven doesn't seem to notice him, at least not at first. She has blue jays to chase! And mindless violence on her mind.

The jay she's currently chasing is flying more or less straight at him, though Okuu's not paying too much attention to that.]

[wondering_eye]

[The screeching of birds is enough to alert Satori that something is wrong. The swirl of dark thoughts from a certain bird's head is enough to motivate her to run outside and see what's going on.]

Okuu?! Okuu, stop that this instant! There's more of them than you, you'll hurt yourself!

...why didn't this post

[idkmybfforin]

[There is the abrupt mental and physical equivalent of SLAMMING ON THE BRAKES as soon as Utsuho hears the voice. Not just any voice, that voice. She even drops out of her raven form to crouch awkwardly on the ground, wings half-spread to chase still and her head turned back over her shoulder in utter astonishment.]

because LJ

[wondering_eye]

Utsuho Reiuji, leave those birds alone.

[SHE BROKE INTO FULL NAMES, Okuu is in trouble now! She notices the still-twitching blue jay and frowns disapprovingly, but then her expression softens. She walks over to Utsuho to embrace her.]

...I'm sorry I made you worry.

(fuu)

[idkmybfforin]

[And Okuu knows it. She wilts and cowers away from Satori, furling her wings back and away in an attempt to look small(er) and submissive. Which was rather hard to do, being absurdly tall as she was.

Satori stepped forwards, but the hell raven didn't move. This was punishment, not something you ran away from, and--

--oh.

She wasn't expecting a hug.

At first, Okuu was stiff as a board. Then...a little tremor went through her shoulders.]

--MASTER!

[And she breaks. And returns the embrace with her arms and wings and a desperation she had not known since she was a hatchling struggling to fly...]