[gladion doesn't freeze but Akira absolutely does. His ears are pinned and his tendrils tremble with the need to flair up in defense. His muscles shiver and twitch with the deep instinctual need to shapeshift. He realizes he doesn't want to run, he wants to stomp. Both man and horse seeing all things predatory in Silvally and demanding he kill it before it kills everything he loves.
But he holds, he holds. He's fought bigger beasts in the Metaverse... yet his horse sense of smell can pick up all the dry musk of something so primally animal that no Shadow could ever properly mimic- it's not fully the same.
Still, it's enough to keep him still. Gladion has it, he has to believe that.]
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But he holds, he holds. He's fought bigger beasts in the Metaverse... yet his horse sense of smell can pick up all the dry musk of something so primally animal that no Shadow could ever properly mimic- it's not fully the same.
Still, it's enough to keep him still. Gladion has it, he has to believe that.]