"Took you a while to catch up."
"Shut up, the motorcycle was MOVING...You made me CHASE it..."
He snickered, I scowled and pressed my chin firmly into his back, expecting him to jump, or something. Of course he didn't. Which in turn made me more annoyed.
"Hey, Rant?"
"What."
"What's your Power Animal?"
He thought a moment about this one, tossed one almost-finished cigarette into the Wonderland night (Of course this started a fire, but we were here for the intention of destruction) Lit a new one, and smirked audibly. "Slyde?" He asked, mockingly.
"No, no.. but yes..I want to know."
"Tell me yours first," He said. the smirk toyed with his voice and it was obvious he was attempting to contain something. I couldn't come up with one for a long moment. "fox..?" I said shyly. "Cat?"
"Wrong," He said. "You don't have one. And of course, if you don't have one, I don't either. Besides,the whole system is.. how you say?... homosexual? Gay." another cigarette into the darkness, another one lit. Another fire behind us.
"Why do you say that?!" There was nothing inside me that said anything like this. I really do believe in Guiding Spirits of all shapes and forms.. I just can't find mine. I've been told I don't have one. I don't know.
"If you say you have a Guiding Spirit.. you're confining your behavior into a box of characteristics. You're confining yourself into the behavioral patterns of a creature that may or may not, actually be Guiding you," He said. "Say a cat spirit is trying to... lead you astray...from what you really should be looking at." He looked over his shoulder to see the face he knew I was making.
WHAT?!
"I suppose the only useful animal spirit would be either a bird or a human," He continued. "Then you'd either be a*****e enough to admit you're just a lowly a*****e, or backed away enough to look at the big picture." Another cigarette; this rate told me he was getting excited.
I wasn't, I was completely deflated at this point.
"My guiding animal is Human," He finished.."I love these ******** aposable thumbs."
I fell silent and held onto him, through the alleyway leading up to the hospital, my least favorite one in the whole area.