DARK BLUE, DARK BLUE, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ALONE IN A CROWDED ROOM?
They were here.
Quill didn't know what he was feeling in that moment as he watched the silent figures of his clanmates slip through the shadows of the room, pausing at different cages and opening them. The daylight warriors, he realized, and the closer they drew to his cage the more he was able to identify anticipation within the swirl of feelings in his gut.
He wanted out of this fucking hellhole.
He repressed the urge to demand his freedom, curbed his impatience and held together the fraying edges of his self-control. He wouldn't draw attention, wouldn't put the patrol in jeoperdy by acting like some desperate kit when he was meant to be a warrior.
He was glad when Tallulahwing stopped at Twitches cages first, not just because Quill would have snapped at her to let him out first anyways, but because he was fairly certain that a good chunk of the unease and urgency he felt curling in his stomach would go away once his friend was free and safe. After a moment the door to Twitchbolts cage opened, but they seemed to hesitate in hopping out.
"We'll get your boyfriend out too, no doubt about it."
There was a moment where Quill was just as surprised and confused as his companion- albeit, a lot less panicked. If anything, there mayb have been a look of amusement behind the lift of his brow as he watched Twitchbolt short circut. In any other setting it might have been fun to watch, and he made a mental note of it before forcing his expression back into something sterner. There was no time for it now- no time for Twitch to hesitate, no time for Quill to be caught up in his own head.
"Twitch, just go!" he barked through the bars of the cage, only to be ignored, watching as Banana and Cloudberry went racing by toward the window behind them.
"I'm not leaving without him."
He should have felt a lot of things in that moment, things like frustration or urgnency, but all he felt was bone-deep fondness. How could he feel anything but? That was Twitch, after all- always brave when it counted, so fucking loyal. Had he honestly expected anything less of them? No, not when Quill would have said the exact same thing had their positions been reversed.
The moment Quills door was open Twitch was running, and he didn't blame him. The chimera was a heartbeat away from follow when a voice stopped him though. Johnny. His lip curled in frustration, glancing over his shoulder to watch Twitch get farther away from him, but a glance back toward the two kits eventually brought him stalking over.
He didn't hesitate, reaching up to pluck one of the kits at random and holding them securely by the scruff before he turned and made his way down the aidle, toward the window.
And spotted Thistleback.
He stopped in his tracks as another box of emotions thrown into the chaos of what he was already dealing with, but these ones he could identify even if he was reluctant to name them; relief, admiration, the feeling of 'i knew you'd come'. It was just a momentary stutter to his steps that he was quick to correct, and he let his fur spike up along his neck as he quickly strode forward and lept up onto the ledge beside his own mentor.
"Took you long enough." he growled around the scruff in his mouth, genuine anger in the words as fire and ocean locked with metal. It'd been over a fucking month, and that entire time he'd been locked alone in a cage, waiting.
But he'd known they'd come.
The anger seemed to sizzle out quickly, and after a moment he stepped forward to bump his forhead against the older toms shoulder, careful not to knock the kit against them before stepping away. He couldn't stand there and block the window, and Thistle still had a job to do.
So he scrambled out of the window with the kit in his jaws, bolting after Twitch.
OOC- Quill has Artorias!!!
skyclan - male - 14 months (Feb 17th) - bisexual - homoromantic - single - a very tall, dark chimera tomcat with mismatched eyes and several scars. has bluejay feathers woven like spikes along his spine and neck.