Ideas: The hermits are humans or whatever they are with injected animal DNA, sometimes causing them to become feral. Grian's emotions go out of control and he loses himself, scaring them all.

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March 7th, unknown year.

I haven't really written about things yet, since this notebook is just a bunch of flimsy papers stitched together that they for some reason gave to me,,, Mumbo.

Today, something happens to Grian. Our damn captures had caused a very large emotional wave to hit our smaller architect bro, I think what happened what was that they did something to him and made him be affected like that.

The weird thing is that he's one of the calmest hybrid here and it is very, very rare to see him actually angry or upset about something. They must of messed him up badly...

I watched as they pushed my best friend back into the hermit's cage, him hitting the floor harshly. Me and Iskall rushed over to our fellow architect, sliding down onto our knees and leaning over him. He was covering his eyes, his fingers clawing around the skin, I tried my hardest to pull his arms away but nothing happened; I possibly made it worse.

The other hermits watched as we tried to help him, his breathing had begun becoming quite exotic and heavy, I grabbed onto his torso and pulled him closer to me, having him sit in front of me. Iskall sat in front of Grian, putting their hands firmly onto his forearms.

Me and Iskall began shuffling over to a corner, Grian still in my arms.

His fur bristled, pricking my hands and Iskall's. His breathing stopped being so sudden, it calmed down right away. His hands never moved from his eyes... I let my grip loosen, Iskall's loosened as well. Grian crawled away from us, sitting directly in the shadowed corner and staring in the way of us and the other hermits.

That's when he finally moved his hands, his pupils were slits, ears pointed straight sideways. Xisuma stepped forward, walking closer to the small hermit. I watched as the fur on the back of Grian's neck stand up, his eyes watching our admin, Xisuma leaned down to his height.

Grian gave out a quiet hiss, his ears leaning down. Xisuma put his hand on his cheek, rubbing his semi-furred skin. My friend suddenly looked at his arm, then bit down into his skin, his cat-fangs sinking into Xisuma's soft human-ish skin. His hand retracted as he hissed out in pain, Grian unlatching and staying still, still staring daggers at him.

Xisuma shuffled a bit away, staying a clear distance away from him just in case he tried that again. He turned to me, making a gesture for me to come over. I did said and sat on my knees beside Xisuma. "He's somehow reverted into his animal mindset, maybe he'll calm down if your here" My admin reasoned, I just nodded and came closer to him, gaining a few hisses from Grian.

I leaned into him, wrapping my hands around him and hugged him tightly. Grian hisses, using his sharp fingers to dig into my back and biting down into my arm. I bit my lip, the pain was very terrible but if this is what I could do to help him, I'd deal with it. He continued to trash around quite a lot, biting at my arms before he gave up.

His head fell onto my shoulder, feeling small wet drops sink into my clothing. I felt his hands snake around my back and hug me back, seeing that his episode was done now. I moved my arm to his head, rubbing his hair to calm him. I turned my head over to the others, most had walked off farther away from him quite scared of what just happened, Xisuma and Iskall watched from a distance as well.

Grian began mumbling 'sorrys' and 'I didn't mean its' to me, them being quiet and muffled, I just whispered back 'it's alright' and 'your okay' to him.