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GAUCHO
I'd bring you further roses but it does you no good.
Perhaps he had been foolish for thinking that she would not pull away. That his over-inflated ego would just expect her to allow him to continue to have her when he pleased was perhaps one of the things she silently faulted him for, but it did not soften the blow that her retreat struck. As his wings closed upon nothing but an empty space, Gaucho felt the overwhelming expectation of her touch shatter his thoughts like a thousand shards, his flesh crying out in bitter agony for the lack of her that he felt. Her absence swam over him, blackening his thoughts and fueling a self-important entitlement.
In previous spars fought under these questing conditions, Gaucho's attacks had missed. He had chalked those up to the tenuous connection between his mind and Mara's, and how easily the strain of battle could cause the eyesight he borrowed from his companion to become compromised. That Ampere had twice severed the connection entirely in the past 10 minutes alone might have served as an appropriate justification for why he had missed, but it was not an excuse that Gaucho would utilize now. That his haphazard flailing towards her might have been unsuccessful because of him hadn't even been considered.
Like everything else, he would blame this upon Ampere as well.
She had pulled away, evaded what might have fixed this. Fixed them.
Gaucho felt a blue-white pain radiate out from his right side. It caused his muscles to contract, and his body reflexively curled in to the right, as if compacting the space she had electrocuted would somehow reduce the pain. The dun felt his breath hitch in his throat as his ears flattened against his skull. In the seconds that followed the area grew hot as the burn set in. It was not anywhere near as bad as the wounds he had inflicted upon her, yet he could smell the hair as it fused together as well as feel the tightening of his skin.
Would it scar? It would be hard to tell. Though likely when his hair grew back it would not be the same dark shade as the rest of his body. It would be tainted by her touch, just like the rest of him was.
"WHY YOU NOT TELL ME NOT TO UNTIL IT TOO LATE." He bellowed back, fumbling for Mara's eyes so that he might properly glare at her.
If this cause had meant so much to her, then why had she not tried to help him see things her way sooner? Why did she only mount her soapbox when it was too late? She lectured those with companions about the deeds they had already committed, and yet nothing that she said could be applied retroactively. Once a bond was created there was no going back. So why had she let him make this mistake in the first place? If this truly meant so much to her, why did she spend her time with him fighting and fucking? If she ever loved him, if she ever wanted this to last, she should have tried harder.
As she lunged, Gaucho swung his hips to the left, trying both to evade her assault but also to limit her ability to strike his right side which was still reeling from the effects of her electrical attack. However he couldn't avoid her entirely - she was far too close for that. He felt her shoulder grace his thigh painlessly as his hind right leg screamed out in pain. From his chestnut to the top of his hoof felt as though it had been scraped with a razor blade as her hoof dragged downwards. A pinch of pain - entirely minor compared to the wounds Ampere had already inflicted - tugged at his mind, emanating from his wing.
Shifting his body even further left to try and take the weight off of his throbbing right hindleg, Gaucho retaliated. Surely Ampere was far too close to evade him now. His teeth snaked forward, aiming for her loin, as his left wing shot forward aiming to knock into her ribs nearer to her flank. In his antlers Mara's steely body snapped forward. There wasn't much venom left in her body at this point, but she would happily expel what little she had left. Whatever heartbreak existed between the blue and Gaucho was not her concern. However having her mind silenced, was. If Ampere hadn't learned her lesson the first time, she would learn it now. Mara would have preferred to have been closer to Ampere's head, where thick veins ran down her neck. But the companion would be happy with what she got. Instead she aimed for Ampere's spine, happy to simply tear away skin with her fangs if that was all she could manage.
Just a note since this spar continued from the earlier thread: Ampere used her silencing magic once then, and Mara bite her/used her poison. I wasn't meaning to imply that Ampere had used her magic twice in this spar :)
WC: 798
Attack: 3/3
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[JUDGED] Can we go back before the storm came raging? [Gaucho]
