never over - o, joining

i was born, on the highway, in a train wreck

with a heart, that was beating, out of my chest

At a certain point, Aurum had just grown... accustomed to people wondering about his wings. Sure, he was far from the only unusual animal with wings around. Hell, he was far from the only unusual animal with wings in Tanglewood, but people still found themselves inexplicably interested in his wings, mostly because of their broad size and bright coloration. So, when the uge spider came skittering forward and began to inspect him, Aurum couldn't muster up anything more than the barest of annoyance at the whole scenario. He had just grown so used to the limbs over the several months he had them now that it was sort of baffling to him what the deal was. However, what he was really surprised by was the amount of confusion and vague uncomfortableness that lingered on the faces of his fellow Tanglers. Even Crowley seemed a bit perturbed by the appearance of the giant spider, and Moth practically dove down behind him before she actually greeted Abathur. The Captain blinked a couple of times, bewildered by the reactions. Surely they had seen more interesting or crazy things by now, right? For fuck's sake, there were huge dragons in this world. Wouldn't that be more frightening than a giant spider? The male just let out a soft grunt and shook his head a bit before dragging his tail gently over his sister's back in a comforting motion, hoping to get her to relax and stop thinking that Abathur was going to devour her for some reason. He then turned his one eyed gaze back to the joiner at hand, offering him a smile and a nod, "It's nice to meet you, Abathur. Er, my name is Aurum, and I'm the Captaim of the Guard around here. If you have any security related problems or big matters and Leroy's not around, you can come to me... sorry about Snarl. She's a little rude." Honestly, what unnerved Aurum the most about Abathur wasn't the fact that he was a giant spider, but instead because of how he talked. It was so oddly jerky and unnatural, not to mention the fact that he just referred to them as "subjects." That made Aurum feel uncomfortably like a lab rat, and he doubted such a thing would go over with someone like Roy either.

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