That he is willing to pull her out of this vulnerable state, is a meaningful and thoughtful gesture, but it was done with agony which only brought distress to the curly haired woman. Not once had someone come to help her when it came to being in some sort of physical pain. When her pack harmed her no one came afterwards to clean up the mess. She had to learn on her own and do it as privately as she could without them knowing. In her nature, she understood that being weak meant being vulnerable, but she didn't have concern about being this way to a pack...she was a loner. She belonged to no one. Why Tobi couldn't possibly understand, she did not know, but she was growing tired of explaining this to him. He does not own her. He has no claim or tie to her. He is in a pack. She is a loner. They were already breaking some of the foundations of rules...packs stick together and keep away from outsiders. Outsiders were supposed to stick to themselves, and keep away from pack members. Packs were not good. They were a threat. If her blood pack didn't care for her and mistreated her, then every other Pack she was unrelated to would do the same thing. Who could blame her for thinking such things? That she risked her well-being for Tobi was quite a thoughtful and meaningful thing to do for him. In truth she had nothing or no one to live for, no reason to truly stay alive other than the natural for self-preservation...and that nagging feeling for the witch girl, Serafina. However, she was willing to get hurt all for his benefit...and that he wouldn't appreciate this self-sacrificing gesture wounded her...and that wasn't something he could fix- or even detect. With her pride damaged and low self-confidence caused the girl to cross her arms, soft grave tone carrying a soothing slow pace all for his benefit of grasping what was being said.

"Tobi...I may be a woman, but I can protect you and anyone else I want to. I have teeth, I have claws, I was built not just to hunt...but to survive and that means attacking any threat to me and to others....Whether you like it or no doesn't matter.... Besides, I don't really need to stay alive- you have a pack to go home to, I don't have anyone to go home to."

She didn't mind living. Living wasn't the problem. It was the fact she saw herself at face-value...which was nothing. She wasn't important. She never was. Even the witch girl she protected a few nights ago didn't necessarily hold some sort of want to have her around even though they were bound as familiars...whatever that meant. It was beaten into her skull that she was nothing more than a lowly creature not worth living. She was only allowed to live because it was in their law not to kill their Alpha or their bloodline all in order to keep the pack running functionally without any sense of disloyalty running about. Though just because she had that rank didn't mean they would treat her as if she deserved it. Some laws were vague...and there were loopholes to everything. It didn't matter if Tobi would agree with her or not. She would protect him. Not just because she cared for him, not just because he was her best friend or she had some sort of deeper feelings for him, but because he was important to someone else too. If he didn't come home he would be failing his pack. To make sure he would return to them unscathed would provide her a sense of comfort. Though in the back of her mind, that ominous voice from Naddy came to her recollection- the WerePanther kept tabs on who Tobi hung out with and it wasn't a surprise that she and the female feline weren't very close. It is Tobi's sudden movement that caused her to be wary once more, walking towards and lowering his face near her neck she was unaware he was trying to catch a familiar scent, and all she could do was simply stand there...still. His happy exclamation only caused the girl to tilt her head, puzzled. Tetra, as she recalls, was the WerePanther he had been searching for, the same one locked at Syn with him, the one that was Naddy's brother...and the one that helped her get out of the zoo. Quickly her mind began to grab the pieces and she placed them together, all to just solve the puzzle. That this was the pack Tobi belonged to caused her to simply smile, but also send a shiver down her spine. She wasn't quite sure if Tobi was aware of what else Tetra did that night, after all Tobi didn't know about the zoo, perhaps Tetra never spoke of the invitation. Uncrossing her arms so as to not have such an imposing stance she shrugged her shoulders before turning and heading for her bedroom, turning her head around to speak.

"Tetra is your Alpha? Did he tell you or Naddy that he invited me into the pack?"

She had yet to give the green-eyed man her answer. It was a whirlwind of a night that occasionally kept her up at night, wondering. To be offered the choice to join a pack, at the time with members she didn't know, was a tarrying thing. Now that she knew who the members were she wasn't as terrified as before. But oh was her concern only growing. If her pack harmed her...how could she know this one, made of all Cats, wouldn't do the same? Tetra may have been kind to help her get out of the zoo, but she didn't know much about him. Actually- she had to shift and was naked in front of Tobi's Alpha. Surely...surely Tetra wouldn't say anything about it to Tobi...right? I mean really. If Tetra was like a brother to the boy, for how could a leopard and panther come from the same set of parents, he wouldn't talk about her, right? Surely not, but then again...if he invited her to the pack wouldn't he have to tell his members too? Come of think of it, she didn't know a whole lot about Tobi either, but she was learning. His constant presence allowed the she-wolf to learn to be content and not afraid when he was around; their sleeping arrangements only intensified her need and her appreciation to stay close to him. It was perhaps this clever conditioning method that allowed her to be okay when he was around her bedroom, it did not however, make it okay that he could see her half naked. Feeling his presence close to her once more, she felt his weight make the bed go down, and her lithe frame went rigid for a moment. As he begins to jump on the bed, she would bounce each time he jumped, and when he tapped her tender shoulder, a slight hiss came from her as she got up, grabbing the wet towel and walking towards the bathroom.

"No Tobi...you are going to jump into the ceiling fan..."

Entering the bathroom she would turn the sink on, washing the blood out of the towel before ringing it out and placing it on the hook, the sound of her bed being bounced on. Though her head would lift when she heard the sudden crash. Whirling around she went into her bedroom and saw a slightly damaged ceiling fan and a tall man lying on her bed...trying to keep a smile off her face but failing miserably she moved towards him, one hand gently stroking his head that was surely sore, taking whatever pain he was feeling away so he could feel better, experiencing all the pain for herself. Blue-grey eyes met his dark black pools and her pink lip twitched upwards into a small smile, her voice filled with concern.

"I took the pain away...and I can feel the pain now...you feel better"?

I'd Rather Feel Pain Then Nothing At All

Raven