Ming-Ming glared at Willow. Then she realized something was different. Subtle, but different.. She examined her sister.
Crimson's eyes turned to slits and his ears went flat on his head. "What.. is it?" He said, afraid to hear the truth.
Crimson spat sand out and shook his pelt out, readying a threat, but decided his mouth had gotten him into enough trouble already. He sat back down.
"I survived long enough to find this tribe, after your mate drove me out." she said it coldly, but her anger was directed at Cobra only. she licked the she cat roughly with her tongue, squinting her eyes against the traitorous tears that threatened to slip away from her. (i know cats can't cry BUT FOR THE DRAMA LOL) "there now, stop shaking, youv'e come this far, don't turn mouse on the last leg of the journey." she rumbled. Oleander had been her closest tribe mate, and Cobra had ripped them apart when he took her as his mate and drove them apart. but you couldn't hold us down forever. she thought, feeling closer to hope than she had in a great while. she stretched out on her belly to Oleanders level. "Iv'e come to save my brother Oleander, I won't let them kill him.." she murmured, seeing the fear, which she knew was not for herself, in her friends eyes.
"You did? I can't thank you enough," Mongoose seemed to be the only cat that understood Oleander. "I fled to be away from him. I love him, but he has plans for me to be the 'powerful queen at his side' and I can't have that. All he really seems to want is to manipulate me, or he did... now I wonder if he still does love me. I escaped to prove that I was strong enough to defy me. Just because I am his mate doesn't mean he has any control over me. Or at least that's what I thought at the time..." she trailed off. "Dire came with me." The black and white tom made eye contact with Mongoose. "If he wasn't here I probably would have died. I'm no cat of the desert. The jungle suits me better. How I miss it..."
"he's a different cat now Oleander..maybe the former one will return..maybe he won't." she bit her lip, her own doubts battling with her wish to comfort her friend. "but i will try-we will try, to bring him back..I promise..I will try.." that was all she could promise megar as it seemed, she knew she would fight to defend the lives of her tribemates if Cobra could not be reasoned with. "I am ready to go home, its where we belong..and with my new.. freinds at my side, we will return home without cowering or fear, but in peace and security." she nodded, flooding her voice with all the certianty she could muster.
(Crimson's In two places at once? xD )
Crimson stared in horror at Willow's face. "Is this how you treat your own sister?" He hissed.
