[...Rorschach might be paying more attention to the flopping tail than the creature attached to it. He's sorry but YOU'RE BLEEDING and therefore highly distracting.
He shakes his head at the question all the same, though, giving a little helpless almost-shrug. He doesn't know. They haven't come out when he was watching, he doesn't know if they can get in or how they get out exactly. His gaze never drops from the trail of blood, no matter how faint, the path of fins, the call of food that it's more polite to ignore.
But when Prefect's tail brushes against him, the reaction is immediate. Bared teeth and a defensive hiss with a glower to send the message the rest of the way home, a flick of his own tail and a sudden backpedal, as if it was an assault or worse instead of just a pointed tap. As if he'd been bitten or stung or burned with acid instead of only chastised, no damage done at all.]
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Date: 2013-03-21 01:47 am (UTC)He shakes his head at the question all the same, though, giving a little helpless almost-shrug. He doesn't know. They haven't come out when he was watching, he doesn't know if they can get in or how they get out exactly. His gaze never drops from the trail of blood, no matter how faint, the path of fins, the call of food that it's more polite to ignore.
But when Prefect's tail brushes against him, the reaction is immediate. Bared teeth and a defensive hiss with a glower to send the message the rest of the way home, a flick of his own tail and a sudden backpedal, as if it was an assault or worse instead of just a pointed tap. As if he'd been bitten or stung or burned with acid instead of only chastised, no damage done at all.]