`INSULTS, JABS, THREATS. ‘ALL THINGS HE WAS WELL USED TO. No skin off his knee / HARDLY A CLIPPING EDGE TO HIS HAIR AT THAT (IF ANYTHING IT WAS ALWAYS JUST A LITTLE THING TO LAUGH AT). But the less of those was the most BASIC of universal insults- BEFITTING for the passive-aggressive too cowardly to confront, but not passive or mature enough to let it go (BOTH FOOLS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT / BUT THE BASTARD CHILD OF THE TWO ALWAYS THE WORST). So a laugh encroached the air it entered. ❝-—Cute. Befitting of someone like you to fall back on that instead of some clever insult. Really, it’s quite adorable.❞ Tail suddenly LAUNCHED FORWARD / AN ABNORMAL PROPERTY DISPLAYING ITSELF (AND NOTHING OF THE CRYSTALLINE PARASITES MANIFESTATION / PURELY HIS OWN NATURAL ONE). Tips of the appendage curled, enlargened claws gripping the finger ever so gently / GIVING A SLIGHT MOVEMENT OF IT. ❝-—I wonder how many orifices on you I could shove this into, and what would happen first- something rupture or it break? Certainly having it out like this doubles as an offer, as it’s the cowards version of ‘try me’.❞