[Even if much else is a confusion of disparate instincts pulling in different directions, all of him knows a challenge when he hears it. It starts up an odd rattling noise, a muffled buzzing somewhere beneath dark fur and feathers as the chimera turns slowly on one taloned foot to face Serph again. Many people might recognize the warning of a rattlesnake, but people from the Junkyard?]
I'm as strong as I need to be.
[There are different kinds of strength than brute power, which he's always had more than his fill of. Sheer force of will has kept him from indulging in the desperate ravenous hunger of a monster that knows it's starving and doesn't want to die with a full stomach of food it simply can't process anymore.
Blood made it so much harder. His own, his target's, it didn't matter. He'd kept the shameful fraying of his own control carefully under wraps, and he didn't much want to test it now.
But backing down also wasn't an option, not when so blatantly confronted. It's a struggle alone not to adopt a more threatening and dominant stance, also the actions of a beast, but he can't quite suppress the agitated rattling sound.]
You may test the assumption of my weakness at your leisure.
no subject
I'm as strong as I need to be.
[There are different kinds of strength than brute power, which he's always had more than his fill of. Sheer force of will has kept him from indulging in the desperate ravenous hunger of a monster that knows it's starving and doesn't want to die with a full stomach of food it simply can't process anymore.
Blood made it so much harder. His own, his target's, it didn't matter. He'd kept the shameful fraying of his own control carefully under wraps, and he didn't much want to test it now.
But backing down also wasn't an option, not when so blatantly confronted. It's a struggle alone not to adopt a more threatening and dominant stance, also the actions of a beast, but he can't quite suppress the agitated rattling sound.]
You may test the assumption of my weakness at your leisure.