<div class="floatleft">(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t295/JoanieSappho/burd_zpss5n6r6f4.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 16pt;">Torikai</span>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=237289.msg11683863#msg11683863)<br/><strong>Location</strong>: Meeting Place<br/><strong>Tagging</strong>: All, Riku, Tabitha, Renoa, Suzume<br/><hr/>While Riku was gone, Torikai had found herself a quiet spot to sit and think, something that wasn't too hard. After that little display of hers just now, she was being given something of a wide berth.<br/><br/>To her mind her reactions had been perfectly reasonable. Renoa had made Riku cry and had offered plenty of insults of her own and once the threats had started ... well, she couldn't just back down. Even though she probably should have. Still, she hadn't leaped in talon-first and had kept herself from directing any of her wind towards the others present and had simply waited for the hellhound to escalate the situation to violence.<br/>Which hadn't happened.<br/><br/>Torikai didn't particularly like fighting - nor did she have any real aversion to it, either - but the way this had ended felt wrong to her. She doubted it was the tears - she'd seen plenty of tears and her usual response to the sight was pleasure rather than regret, after all - but ... she didn't know why she didn't enjoy the sight of that mutt running off with tears in her eyes.<br/><br/>Still, when Riku returned and asked his question, her response was one of immediate surprise and disbelief.<br/>"She made you cry," Torikai replied quietly. "Are you really sure you want to do this? You don't have to, no matter what anyone has told you." The attempt at flattery was noted and wasn't entirely futile, but Torikai still saw Renoa as a threat to her human and, for now, that overpowered the appeal to her ego.