[He's breathing raggedly, harshly. Forcing it to stay kneeling at Elena's feet as she drops, as she pulls at Sam's disguise. It can smell her blood, and so can he. He knows what she's doing, but its defensive nature flares up again. Elena bleeding, Sam is bleeding, Keya is dead, Clint is gone, it needs to fight, to do something besides sit here--]
[His own head is bowed, his own veils hanging to cover what Elena may have exposed of Sam. Only to have it snap back up as someone else approaches. Someone it doesn't recognize as friend, as family, as anything but another body. And it bares his teeth at them.]
[Something dangerously close to a snarl in his throat, as the wild animal in his brain all but threatens to yank Sam away from them. To take him and run. He knows Elena can help. But all it knows is the smell of blood and the insane drive to protect.]
[Muscles tense. Ready to spring if need be, while he wrestles with it, trying his damnedest to keep his body where it is. Which... becomes especially difficult when Elena speaks. That anger, the thing, sparks up to a flare, bright as stars. And the snarl returns.]
(He won't die! I won't let it happen!)
[Though whether that roar of denial was from Shiro or from his symbiote power, who knows.]
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[His own head is bowed, his own veils hanging to cover what Elena may have exposed of Sam. Only to have it snap back up as someone else approaches. Someone it doesn't recognize as friend, as family, as anything but another body. And it bares his teeth at them.]
[Something dangerously close to a snarl in his throat, as the wild animal in his brain all but threatens to yank Sam away from them. To take him and run. He knows Elena can help. But all it knows is the smell of blood and the insane drive to protect.]
[Muscles tense. Ready to spring if need be, while he wrestles with it, trying his damnedest to keep his body where it is. Which... becomes especially difficult when Elena speaks. That anger, the thing, sparks up to a flare, bright as stars. And the snarl returns.]
(He won't die! I won't let it happen!)
[Though whether that roar of denial was from Shiro or from his symbiote power, who knows.]