The ebony feline's belly was flush with the grass that so tickled at his fur and yet, it remained wholly unnoticed as his emerald eyes stared past those blades at the small shuffling creatures not but terribly far from their given location. He could smell the peculiar things upon the wind, their scent as wholly distinct as it had been within that night in the zoo. He remembered it, remembered them, and in turn remembered that joyousness that had affected a form he later came to know as the stiff, rigid and subdued lupine beside him. There was no doubt within his mind that she surely deserved some lingering moment of simple, untainted and delightful play, this entirely calling more to her side as a lupine that she eternally seemed to favor over that pale human flesh. He hardly commented on such observations, however, merely filing such knowledge away to be called upon in moments such as these. Tetradore could feel the tenseness in her body beside him, the lupine clearly ready for the sheer prospect of so haphazardly toying with the spherical critters. He could feel the brush of her tail against his own haunches, shifting the blades of grass behind them in a wishing sound that was entirely distinct to his all too sensitive ears. It was this knowledge of her efforts to remain at his side despite her clear want that so finally saw the feline release of her stay, his own body propelling forward with a feline grace.

He pounced with such ease upon the closest of armadillos, the creature immediately rolling up into a ball beneath his form in an effort to so defend itself from his predatory claws. And yet, for all the fun that they surely symbolized, Tetradore had no true intent to harm the innocent bystanders in any real way, already knowing their mere presence caused trendles of fear to so lace their tiny forms. After all, it was his element - it so desperately called to him, so ready for his prompt control and yet, he simply failed to take it. Instead, his emerald eyes shifted towards his companion, watching as she tore through the field to scatter the small critters within her wake. He watched with a nearly endearing glimpse to those vibrant eyes as she so bowed before one of her armadillos, smacking it with her paws to send it careening towards the opposite side of the field before chasing after it in a fashion more akin to a pup then the haunted and bedraggled female he knew her to be. Good. She had found just but a fleeting glimpse of that elation he so particularly wished for her, the quietest and most tormented of his small family.

His own attention shifted back towards the critter as it began to unfold beneath him, the large panther gingerly nudging it till the critter collapsed once again into that ball like state. His own large paw reached out to bat at the thing, sending it with a near perfect trajectory to careen into one of it's fellow mates, the two critters sprawled upon their backs in a clearly disgruntled fashion that so seemed to amuse him. He started to move in a nonchalant fashion towards them, interrupted only by the presence of another rolling creature passing right in front of him, his paw effortlessly catching it with sheathed claws. He watched as the lupine ran towards him, positioning herself in front of him with her wagging tail still tilted up in the air. The felines was entirely taken back as her paw bopped him on the nose, his face immediately retreating from her as she pivoted to run away from him, rossing another armadillo within his direction. Oh. This game. How could he forget. The feline's gaze narrowed ever so slightly, his paw gingerly pressing upon the armadillo in front of it as he so coaxed it to remain in that perfect ball before batting it towards her, prodding at the second one she'd tossed at him to return it too within her direction right after the first, clearly intending to assault the woman with a veritable army of rolled up armadillos.