Wiping the Clock

Cash seemed as interested as he could be with his tired maw. Eyes drooped slightly, as he released a yawn of his own, down turning his maw and releasing a small chuckle, after witnessing Lady's own polite way of dealing with her yawn. Cute little thing, he found it hard to take his dark eyes from her features.. but still there was an obvious loyalty tugging at his heart whenever he found himself seriously thinking about the cocker. Upon her mentioning needing a rest, hound looked back up after turning away briefly.

"Don't leave me...?" he finally said, the end turning for a question, though his vocals were hoarse and almost desperate. He hadn't meant to sound so lonely when he had said it, betraying his cool cover to the true sadness within. Dixie had much more of an effect on him than she'd ever know. But when he looked upon Lady he felt like she had filled a bit of that hole he'd left behind with Dixie. It was a selfish reason to keep her around, and he knew it. But he tried to avoid thinking about the future with Dixie on the villains, and Lady standing right before him. He turned his maw downwards, looking almost ashamed, as dark eyes stared intently at the ground.

Lady cocked her head slightly. The little cocker had been running on auto-pilot almost the whole way back, the only things wearying her attention being the rails, and the locomtoive. But, that last comment snapped her into reality. She looked up at him, into his eyes, and despite the insomnia that clearly seemed to roll threw them both, she found them still as warm and comforting as back in the ally. Now that they where safely home, she allowed herself a few moments to see deeply into them. Her muzzle displaying a shy smile.

The little cocker was still on the fence about the hound. She was without a doubt long over the Tramp, preferring to put him behind her. She still felt strange over Cash. She felt that she was indeed falling for him, and falling hard. But it wasn't the same type of attraction she had felt for the Tramp. It felt very...different...somehow. She just couldn't put her paw on it.

Upon him looking intently at the ground, Lady chuckled, taking his stance as a sign of modesty toward his comment.

"Well, we could always go to the Mess Hall and fetch us some grub." she suggested. "and await the news on this strange fellow that hopped us."

Hounds chuckle slightly in spite of himself, regaining some composure he'd lost after breaking himself down throughout the whole mission almost. It wasn't fair for him to do something like that to Lady, besides he was tired, and so was she. He was being selfish, shaking his head briefly in apology.

"Ahh, m'sorry." he looked back up cool coverage revived strongly again, "Y'all should get some rest. I won't bother you none." he offered a charming smile. No, it wasn't Cash's intents to drag Lady all around the hero camp in their tired and weary state.

Perhaps the hound just didn't want to go to sleep, fear of what was awaiting him inside the tent, afraid to be engulfed by the silence with his own guilty thoughts, over thinking his situation entirely. The hound was clinging to Lady it would seem, as she seemed to put him in a better mood. It was being alone that frightened him.

Lady looked up at the dog, seeing the tried look in his eyes, yet...there seemed to burn a fire. She lowered her head respectively, her mouth spreading across her muzzle in a wider, cute, smile. She was tired, but, she felt she could spend some down time with him still.

"Oh, its no trouble at all." Lady said sweetly, by now the other heroes had left to fallow Clopin's orders. She moved slolwy, closing the gap between him and her, warm fur touching. She put her paw atop his. The difference in size very noticeable. Her paw stood atop his like a penny atop a quarter.

"If you like, my tent is very warm and out of the way. Jock should be gone by now. No one will disturb us. We can go and rest for a while."

Normally, Lady wouldn't be the type to openly invite another male to her place of residence. In fact it was against her polite upbringing. But...soemthing about Cash made a fire burn deep inside her. She still didn't know what it was. But it was definitely there, and she had not ruble, even welcomed, his prescience.

Melody silently followed Clopin and the new prisoner. He seemed almost nervous. She just hoped that none of them spotted her. The young girl knew that they were going to Priderock and had to leave when they were meeting with King Simba.
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Vixey was in the MASH tent when she saw Ray arrive. "Hey how ewas your mission? Was it successful? Whose the new guy?" she asked. The vixen had so many questions about the infletraiton for Ray.

It didn't surprise Ray that Vixey would suddenly bombard him with questions about the mission. Going into the very depths of danger, so to speak, had been quite exciting for the little firefly. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down, darlin'. Ah'll get ta explainin' soon enough." Ray assured her. Fortunately, Louis didn't appear to be around at the moment. Ray wasn't entirely sure how he would go about explaining that Facilier, the one responsible for the firefly's death in the first place, had actually helped them during the infiltration. "Well, ta start with ah don't know who the prisoner is. He said he'd introduce himself after meetin' with the leaders and King Simba. All ah know is Clopin found him stowed away on the train last night when we were headin' back." he said with a little nod. "And yes, the mission was successful. We found Audrey just fine in their prison. There were a few... kinks ta work out in the process of findin' her, though." Ray added after a moment. He wasn't sure if he should go into full detail about how they had been found and attacked.

"That's good. There's nothing orsecthan a failed mission so, I'm glad it worked out." Vixey replied. She thought back to the new man. He reminded her of someone she saw a few months ago, a bit after Tod joined the war. Something about him just made her feel uneasy like, he did something to her that she couldn't shake off. "Are you sure you don't know who he is? Because I think I've met him somewhere before."

Ray just shrugged. "Ah'm afraid ah've never seen him before. Then again, ah've only been around here fer a short while. Maybe he's been 'round here before?" Ray suggested. There was no way the firefly could know the man. Outside of Mama Odie, Tiana, Naveen, and Dr. Facilier, Ray hadn't met many humans before joining the war. "Ah guess we'll just hafta wait an' see who he is when he decides ta introduce himself." he continued.

Garnar grins as he spots Vixey and Ray and trots over to them "hey" he calls out "Ray how did it go? and Vixey how are you this fine morning?" he gives a wink to the fox

Cash seemed to consider Lady's paw placed upon his, looking down at it almost blankly. The small polite dog seemed sincere, but he eventually nodded. No, he wasn't going to do anything but sleep to be honest. Hound was sincerely innocent, though it may not look as such to onlookers. He only didn't want to be alone right now, he'd had too much thinking time already and it'd taken his toll.

"Ah ain't gon' make a habit of tarnishing your reputation Songbird, honest." he assured her, in case any... incorrect assumptions had been made, "Ah just don't want to be alone tonight..." he finished. If it wasn't clear before, then it would certainly be clear now that Cash was afraid of his own consciousness.

Ray turned to Garnar as he approached. The dog seemed to be in better spirits than he had been when the group going on the mission had been decided on the previous day. Deciding it would be better to not divulge the full details of the mission just yet, Ray just smiled at the dog. "It was a complete success. 'Course we didn't count on pickin' up a stowaway, but other than that it went well." he replied.

"a stowaway?" Garnar said his brown eyes widening slightly "who? and where is he/she now?" he say a small frown on his muzzle.

It was then Tramp came bounding into the crowd, tongue lolling out of his mouth and eyes darting about. They'd come back, right? He'd heard they'd come back.
He'd heard SHE 'D come back.
Not that he feared she wouldn't....but....
Yes it was. It was just that. DEspite her desire to be stronger....Tramp couldn't help but worry for hi....for Pidge. On that big ol' train....making trips back and forth, venturing out into dangerous territory....something terrible could have happened to her!

"Pidge?" The mutt called out, as he wove his way through the various heroes, "Pidge, where are you?"

"That's 'im over there with Clopin. We dunno his name fer the time bein', but hopefully that'll change after he's talked ta the other generals and Simba." Ray replied, pointing to Clopin and the man with him as he did. At least, Ray hoped the prisoner would finally introduce himself after explaining why he was there. The little firefly wasn't particularly happy not knowing the newcomer's name.

"mmhm..thanks" Garnar said with a nod to Ray and turns towards where his ex-king was and the newcomer and starts towards them at a brisk trot.