[The Preserve, Sunday Night]

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Between Music class and the busy common room last night, Alec was happy to escape outside for a while. He circled around the school and fled into the preserve, wearing a light jacket against the cold but otherwise apparently immune. He could've gone for a run, but it didn't have the same flavor as a trek through the woods, especially when he had no one's orders to obey but his own.

[OOC: Locked for plottishness. That Alec went to the preserve and was turned into a goat is okay for broadcast, the chase is NFB, plz.]

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[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

The Preserve was a funny place. It was bigger on the inside than it looked on the outside, things were there one day and not the next, and it was home to quite a few individuals who knew how to hide well from the human inhabitants of the island.

Most of the time.

Unfortunately, the particular satyr that was out near Alec was only a teenager himself and had crept away to have a drink. He wound up having a little too much wine, and as such, his hiding skills weren't up to scratch.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec spotted the satyr, and at first wasn't sure what he'd seen. He kept to the brush and any cover he could find, getting nearer to the satyr - wondering if it was a student or something else.

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

He might have been tipsy, but when Alec got a little too close for comfort, the satyr knew he was being watched. He froze for a moment, as if deciding what to do, then bolted in the opposite direction.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Surprised at the sudden retreat, Alec was nevertheless on its heels, chasing it through the forest with a sudden urge of predatory instinct. Maybe he should've gone back to the dorms, told someone about what he'd seen, but if that even occurred to him, he ignored the thought, focused only on the chase.

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

The satyr darted through the woods with practiced skill, not looking behind him. He tripped, but rolled, picked himself up and ran again.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He almost caught up with it then, but somehow it managed to stay just ahead of him. Alec pushed himself to go faster, not quite able to blur with the trees so close together but at a speed that no human would be able to keep up with.

His jacket caught on a branch as he ran and he shrugged out of it without a second thought, leaving it hanging there as he bolted after the thing once more. The only thing on his mind was the hunt, not even thinking of what he would do once or if he caught it.

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

The satyr wasn't used to running from a predator like Alec, and thought he was only dealing with a regular human. He couldn't keep up the pace and the gap between them closed.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Another turn around a clump of trees and Alec was nearly close enough to reach out and touch the little brush of a tail. The scent of it goaded him on, animal musk and sweat, and he growled as he gathered himself, pushing forward suddenly to tackle the thing while they were still close.

He brought it crashing down with his arms around its waist, head tucked down as he leaned his weight onto the creature, holding on tightly.

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

The satyr panicked and struggled. Then he stopped struggling all of a sudden and stared into Alec's eyes, an unexpected smile appearing on his face. "You shouldn't have done that."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Whatever Alec had expected, it wasn't a smile or a sudden lack of struggle. He stared at the thing, at a loss for a moment. "What?"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

The satyr whispered some unintelligble words at Alec.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec had a moment's grace - which he spent gawking at the thing, wondering what it was doing - and then he fell back upon the forest floor, unconscious.

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

A wicked grin crossed the satyr's face as he clambered to his feet. He chuckled quietly, shook his head and darted off into the dark.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Sometime later - several hours by the way the moon had moved across the sky - Alec woke up, shaking his head as he tried to focus.

He climbed to his feet, all four of them, and looked around. The last thing he remembered was the chase, and then he'd caught the thing- What had happened? He sighed and turned to head back to the school, his hooves crunching across the forest loam.

...Hooves?

"Maaaa!?"