A certain dalmatian escapes from the cats and dogs of the communal day after healing Hachiko's students; things almost went perfectly, aside from a single unforgivable 'mistake'. Now, Patches finds himself on the run from his former friends and vows...
Something about the air was stale now, fraught of a shared tepid contempt between Felix and Kav. The group's pace had slowed, interjected with the confidence of treading an already explored route, and the off emotions lingering hard enough that Ray could easily tell them, even without hearing the words the two exchanged.
"I'm really, really sorry about that." Kav scratched at his long pointed ears.
"... Why are you apologizing?" the forest cat rose his head, dispelling the shadows that concealed his eyes behind his hair, and staring at a corkboard full of crisp memos and notices, dots of old blood still visible on a few of them. "He's the asshole, just a huge..." He paused, looking over to Kav. "He gives cats such an awful name, just the perfect example of what dogs thought all of us were."
"Ehe, well, I don't know about that..." Kav couldn't help but flex his jury-rigged weapon, the light clink of metal soothing to the cat. "But you aren't wrong, makes me wonder why he's even volunteering in the first place."
"Mmmw..." Ray idly murmured, a low purr quickly rising and falling from his chest seemingly without reason.
Kav smirked, "So what do you think of that guy?" he said, looking at Ray with a teasing smile.
"Weow?"
"Couldn't have said it better myself!" Kav looked over to Felix, the stoic cat shaking his head in disapproval, a smirk touching his lips as the three creased the last corner.
Felix panted, then he leaned his upper body forward, throwing perception to the wind and dashing towards the bathroom. Even with the thick porcelain-brick wall separating the two, Kav could still hear Felix's breathing rapidly stutter and exacerbate.
"LYRO!?" Felix shouted, prompting Kav to rush forward, the cat turning around the duo of corners that led into the privacy of the washroom, and was caught by surprise as his paw stepped immediately in something wet and squishy.
"HECK!" Kav yelled, tripping forward as the lack of friction killed his balance, metallic bits and pieces crashing to the floor with him as his eyes winced shut and his stomach skid across the tiled flooring.
Ray nearly slipped as well, planting his paw against the wall as he entered into the room, confronted by the sight of a curl cat with wide gashes across her chest and head, something powerful having torn her right eye and the bone surrounding with a wild slash.
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He looked away, a gag rising to his throat as the tabby stumbled out of the washroom. He couldn't stare at their gouged chest- their lungs and heart still squirming past the shrapnel of ribs and fur.
"Lyro, it's me!" Felix yelled, banging rapidly on the door furthest from the entrance. "You're okay! Open up!"
Kav rubbed at his head, his mechanical bits out of place and frayed from the impact. Sparing a moment, he made sure Felix was okay, surprised to see him so active rather than the dull monotone cat he had known before. The gauntlet he wore on his arm was nearly split in two as it took the brunt of the fall, but worst of all was the blood now drenching his pants leg, giving-
