Uta did pause to ensure he could find his target and gauge the right height that was just high enough but not too high, then again he had no real reason to keep safety in mind it was just a courtesy of him to keep it in mind.
/ You coming up? /
Was he trying to be cute with him? Yeah no, courtesy could out the door for this prey-stealer flea, it's not he liked him or anything. Uta's blank poker-face in response the tom was perfectly fitting as he considered the lack of need for extra thought into anything that did not warrant a threat to him or his own safety. He kept up with the other tom still gauging a good stopping point. This particular prey liked to make it's nest rather high up, but they only needed to get about half way for this plan. After a good two-story-high climb or just under it, they were they were in a prime spot and Uta walked out on a branch, rabbit still in tow and finally setting it down as Uta seemed to look between two points, somewhere higher in the tree and directly beneath them where there was clearing around the base of the tree.

"Hmm, this should do." was all the marbled tom said.

/So what's the plan?/
Still looking down at the clearing on the ground, Uta picked up the rabbit and simply tossed it off the branch landing with a muffled thump but otherwise not even hitting a branch for a slightest rattle of leaves or the like. Still without answering him, Uta looked up to see if it noticed... The long few second silence was enough to tell him what he needed to know, and what he needed to do.

"Hywel," he smiled turning to him, "Could you fall for someone like me?" seemingly off-topic until the tom while still smiling and making eye contact, took a small scoot back towards the trunk of the tree and kicked the branch in-between them hard - enough for a >c r a c k< to ring through the forest.

(lol did you catch that less-than-two-story-fall foreshadowing or was a good ol' fall trick just too obvious? xD feel free to go through with it or not, it can work either way just had to throw in that moi-der attempt.)

"Hmmm," he stared disapointedly at the branch and still-alive-and-unhurt Hywel, "Sometimes it takes a secon-" the shattered >c r a c k< of the weakened branch finally gave way and interrupted the tom who braced himself and dug his claws into the wood to keep from being a victim of his own impromptu poor planning. The branch crashed down until it finally landed in the clearing near the rabbit, but not quite covering it from their view due to it's trajectory being tilted by hitting another branch on the way down.
Uta remained quiet as he looked down at it and then at the single flap of a wing above he immediately looked up with alert ears. The silhouette of hawk flapping it's wings and diving down went by. Success, they got it's interest.

"To the top it is - climb as high as you feel comfortable" the marbled tom forgot about his previous words spoken, but he might just still have a chance at using him if things didn't go 100% to plan. The branches thinned out enough up here to make him consider Hywel should stay back - while adding a another a warm body to the kill pile without getting his paw dirty would be nice, a poorly timed fall could just alert the hawk to come back up too soon and ruin the plan altogether.
"Perhaps keep an eye on the hawk - distract it if it comes up." he advised Hywel, gotta delegate while he could, otherwise what was the point of bringing him, murder attempts aside.

"Ah, I dunno, use your body?" he half-thought out that reply while waving a paw to shush and dismiss him. While he probably meant 'use your brain' the innocent words instead came out sounding more like he was telling him to seduce the bird. However Uta was too focused on carefully and quietly climbing up the thinning branches to enjoy the humor in his own words. The soft chirping of multiple fledglings was too hard to ignore and really set him in the predatory killing mood. He reached the branch the nest was on, it already swayed with the wind as is so his added weight was going to make this a tricky one...
Closer, just a bit closer now...

Moving a bit faster, Uta slinked along the branch and when reach the nest swatted a pawful of claws to snatch the closest fledgling, pull them in to him and just as he put his jaws around it's neck - S w o o s h - A second, not-so-happy-hawk-parent slowly descended to the edge of the nest with eyes carrying a look that could kill as the two entered a staredown. Well wasn't this a fun scenario? The most common type of hawks were unfortunately great co-parents and defended their nests with an annoyingly vicious scorn.
Course not many of any species did take kindly to a predator trying to make dinner out of their young.

The fledgling still thrashing around in his maw as he stared back at it's larger, adult version gave him an advantage though. Without breaking eye contact he bit down hard on the fragile bird. A quiet squawk from it's young sent the parental bird at him. Uta tossed the bird forward and a little to the side letting it fall distracting the hawk - the nest was too large to easily knock down but all this added weight could be just what he needed. There was a branch under him if this goes wrong but it counted on him making it. And so the marble tabby jumped up with all his weight he came back down on the bending branch, sliding forward to the next and dazed hawk. If he couldn't get this branch to break, he'd do what he could to take down the fledglings with him and do whatever he could to avoid the hawks.

(hmm i wonder if we can use discord bot rolls for how well this goes hehe)

(discord bot rolls:
1-3 for fledlings killed: 3
1-2 for uta's distract: 1, fail
1-2 for hywel disttract: 1, fail )

Uta managed to get close and kick the remain two fledglings out of the nest but the hawk did not go for the first fallen fledgling likely presumed dead and after struggling to comprehend Uta was going for the young - it was even more angered by his latest action of dooming the remaining young and directed all of it tot he tom. It shrieked with great intensity and nipped the tom digging a gash into him as he tried to dodge ont he narrow branch and then proceed to get slapped by the hawk's wing nearly knocking him off. Uta's claws loudly scrapped the branch as he was left hanging by his front claws. Well that went just terrible.

Just then, Hywel's caterwaul cut the air, but unfortunately it was ignored.
Hurry up he said, wasn't he suppose to be, i dunno distracting? But the snarky tom didn't have time to petty when he was still a target for the hawks. He glanced once more, remember when the broken branch fell it had hit another branch on the way down. Gauging how close it was and the risk of falling when the hawk attacked him or taking chance, guess he was going to have to let go. When the hawk swopping at him, he swung his weight his back and forth before releasing his claws and letting go.

( can't wait for gene to roll me another fail on this one xD)

oh if you want to limit the roll you can do: -roll 1 2
1 = roll once, 2 = #options
im so glad they have that option

( 1-2 uta landing on branch: 2 success
1-3 uta vs hawk round 1. 1,fail uta injury/2,draw optional both dodge/injury/3,sucess hawk injury: 2 draw)


The added swing was enough to keep him in the right direction and give him full clearing for landing on the branch, although it still took the wind out of him for a moment as he dropped hard and yup, he was gonna feel it in his joints later. If all else fails, at least the fledgings would prove a satisfying meal and something different when resting up later. The bigger challenge was getting their corpses away from their pissed off parents who no doubt would chase them from here to camp if they did try to make a run for it.
Uta looked up to the hawk he dodged, well it's his problem now - no, no don't fall yet! That high would kill him rather than leave him in pain and incapacitated and an easy target for the hawks, and easy distraction for Uta to run away with the goods. Plus, there would be no way he could carry all of them back with two hawks on his tail and that would be a shame.
The tom leaped, the branch crackling and snapping as it came tumbling down, and Uta backed up as much as possible to avoid and crossfire. At the first sign of the tom proving stable, Uta barely had a moment to sigh away his annoyance and hope it didn't cover or pin the fledglings - when the other hawk came at him.
He made a quick frantic jump away to dodge those vicious little claws, having no chance to get in any swipes of his own as much as he wished he could have - with a thought in mind:
Look dumb bird, chill I wasn't the one that just threw a branch at your kids okay?

( ye it's soooo useful I love doing the rolls for randomness and they are def both having terrible luck xD poor babies)

After being backed up on his branch from before, Uta's jump to dodge landed him back on gripping the tree's trunk and observing some the mess Hywell was in, then scampering the trunk barely a foot before the hawk danced around the tree looking for him and clean opening to swoop through. The crackling of yet another branch by Hywel's doing seem to distract both of them. You know, maybe he really should have committed to just pushing him off the tree, life didn't seem to care either way.

But hawks were still big birds, with fragile little bones. Uta wanted to jump on a hawk's back and end in similar fashion the problem? Uta wasn't high enough to gain enough momentum to deliver the same force Hywel could with extra weight. And Uta wasn't sure if he was close enough to the ground to risk jumping on one anyways and letting the bird taking the brunt of the fall for both of them. Uta then observed the springy nature of Hywel's branch.

"Hywel~" the tom smiled "why you clever genius I could just kiss you" the tom said as reached the next branch, one that was thin and immediately bended to weight. He would find a out by any means necessary even if it wasn't originally part of his plan. Ah so this is why that lucky tom defied the god of luck, Hywel could serve him well despite being (in his eyes) the cause of this whole mess (as if he had no responsibility in picking this battle).

( roll 1.fail,uta injury 2.fail,no penalty, 3.sucess,hit hawk: 3 )

Uta took big forward to make the branch lean down, and waited for the hawk notice and take the seemingly perfect opening - only once it came to swoop in, Uta quickly jump back nearly on the trunk as the absence of his weight caused the branch to spring back up and smack the hawk perfectly. No time to waste, after getting the upper hand Uta went for the second surprise attack.

(I honestly forgot how high up he is so he's prob gonna be at the mercy of gene next post xD)

(thats okay, sometimes I have to cut my replies short for time but I'd rather post a short reply than have to wait a day or two when i get the next chance )

/ and trust me, I'll let you, / What a foolish tom, he might just unironically do it and start liking this one for some strange reason he just couldn't put his paw on. But he'd have to get out of this alive for any of that to happen. He made contact with the feathery bastard and dug his claws in, yanking out a few pawfulls while he had the chance under the stun, before gripping on to bird knowing this part was gonna be the fun part left up to chance and boy did he love the thrill of danger.

( roll 1.fail,uta injury 2.success,no penalty: 2 woo baby )

He probably should've double-checked just how high he was but this bird was going to take the brunt of the fall either way, the fall didn't even seem that long - it instant hawk hit the ground and seem to come at him as gravity brought brought him colliding back to earth to with a sickening crunch of the bird inbetween them. Well that still hurt. He really had to ease up on the stunts these days or start thinking about moving to DayClan if he didn't want his aging to continue but eh, he liked it here.

Uta rolled over, off the now no longer moving hawk, and lying on his back as he tried to figure out what he could move and if he was hurt. Toes? Check. Legs? Not broken. Breathing? Well he was doing it, granted it hurt and he felt like he should've shattered his ankles from today alone but luck seemed to be on his side for today.

"Ay yah, you did good." the tom called out the rare compliment as he grinned something so genuinely happy it was somehow confusingly ominous in some way.