[Empress Of Evil]

Originally Posted by Aurora Australis

The deputy ran his tongue along his fuzzy paw lazily. It was a smooth, repetitive motion that soothed him, for some reason. He drew his paw over his face, smoothing the ruffled for on his head. He repeated the motion several times, flattening the patch of ruffled fur atop his head. His eyes fluttered, lost in thought. Once he was satisfied, he set his paw down on the dry dirt, sending up a tiny cloud of dust. He tucked his paws into his body, covering them with his poofy tail. He opened his amber eyes, gazing around the camp.

He watched as an unfamiliar tom padded up to him, a warm smile on his face. Windygale returned the smile, dipping his head respectfully toward the warrior. “I don’t believe we have. I’m Windygale,” he purred. “Of course, you probably already know that.” He knew he should stop talking before he said something embarrassing. That was his speciality, after all. “So...” he started, shuffling his paws. “How’re you doing?”

[sorry it’s quite a bit shorter than your post~]

[All good ^^]
“Of course,” Cardinalsnake responded, dipping his head in a respectful manner as well. Although the tom was smiling and polite on the outside, he felt a small flame of anger flickering inside him. ‘Of course, you probably already know that,’ the tom mocked in his mind. What? You’re famous now so you have the right to say that? Even when you’re so new to the position? How arrogant! Cardinalsnake thought. Halfgaze never did that. Actually, she probably had said it a few times. Deep down, the warrior had to admit that pretty much every deputy would’ve spoken a similar set of words at least once and he didn't mind that, but he didn’t like Windygale very much, so the tom was going to criticize pretty much everything that he had to say.

Cardinalsnake knew that he was being quite unfair. After all, the Somali hardly knew the deputy! But out of loyalty to his best friend, he felt the need to be unfair. I’ll make this hard time, rather than a joyous one, his vibrant green hues glowing wickedly, although the evil in his gaze was only there for a few seconds, making it hard for anyone to catch that look. He quickly put on an expression of delight, as if he totally loved the idea of being able to talk to the tom. As if.

“Not too bad,” he replied, shrugging his shoulders. Well at least there weren’t any dark thoughts behind that response. “How about you?” he asked back. The tom could tell already that the conversation was getting a little awkward. Neither of the warriors seemed to have anything that was particularly interesting to say. They would just have to settle for small talk for the time being, until one of them could bring up an interesting topic.
Realising that he was still standing, Cardinalsnake quickly seated himself down beside the deputy, making it clear that he was going to be here for a while. “Oh, how’s the role of deputy going?” the tom suddenly asked, once Windygale had given his response. He had decided that this would be the perfect way to subtly start pressuring the deputy, the perfect way to make him break.