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Having learnt, in some fashion, from his mistakes in the past, Tenesut had this time come somewhat equipped for the wilderness. He had on him his winter three layers of tunic, complete even with hooded cape, which was pulled up to protect his ears and cheeks from whatever biting winds may strike, and fingerless yet thickly padded rabbit-fur gloves. His boots were not particularly good for stomping through snow, but nonetheless the hobnailed leather of their soles carved deep tracks through the cold layer, and within trousers his legs were warm, though the steps were stiff and taken with something close to difficulty. The armour hadn't made it out with him, the steel so cold that it would have cut straight through his layers of clothing and constricted against the already wheezing chest, but for a reason even Ten was not sure of - he had already taken the white pepper by this point - a sword was strapped onto his belt. Who knew, maybe he'd kill a bear while he was out here. Now wouldn't that be a story to tell? As if wary, then, of any bears he might come across, Tenesut's dark eyes flickered back and forth across the snowy slopes. The pupils in his head were so heavily contracted that they were barely black dots within the muddied off-green of the irises. Every movement was jerky and jittering.

I miss drawing Ten. I miss writing Ten. I wrote Ten. Then I drew Ten :saddummy:

I had an image in my head when writing his last post that kind of stuck with me through today since I re-read it this morning. Ten has finally proceeded from years of drunkenness to an escapade into highness; evidently, it does quite differently for him. This should be interesting, and I look forward to seeing more of the results.

Also Ten just feels very gay in this piece. I don't know why. Maybe it's the massively contracted pupils - intended to indicate his current condition, though the effect seems a little more enchanting than I was expecting - or perhaps the particular tilt of the head or position of his hand, but I just look at it and I feel the gay.
This seems ironic. This is ironic because it is quite recently that Ten has been very certain that he is not, in fact, gay.
This is what is causing most of his problems.
His boyfriends and fiancée, you see, are somewhat playing on his mind at the moment.

So he took some 'white pepper' and ran off into the woods, to solve all his problems, as one does.

I unfortunately got a little confused and took the finger off the wrong hand - although at his rate of self-destruction he probably will be missing most fingers off both hands by the end of the year. He also shouldn't have the feathers around his neck, yet at least, and if they are there then certainly not visible; his idea was to give Chachiuicatl, his one female partner, a token of Roman, and take from her a token of herself - and she does love her feathers - on the night of their wedding, but some... Slight interruptions have gotten in the way of such proceedings, and besides he doesn't particularly want to give her a Roman symbol at all. Unfortunately, the only symbol that seems to represent Ten himself is wine, and she's pretty clean of that (though give her more time around him and he may begin to sway her a little). Perhaps a lute string around the wrist? Although even he hasn't had a lute in a very long time now.
He's screwed. The answer is he's screwed.
Of course he's screwed. He's Ten.

Read This isn't the End on Mark of the Wild.
Ten (c) Just-Raowolf :stinkeye:
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Oh, Tenesut, my sweet summer child... 

I'm surprised Ten has so many lovers, though looking back it seems it was an inevitability.