they make eye contact, and the terror in percy's face is so familiar it's like deja vu. he remembers the look on percy's face, when vex'ahlia finally convinced him out of that mask. the unadulterated trauma. fear.
he sees the way his mouth won't move and something angry twists in his chest. the same anger from vex'ahlia, before, a fierce fury at anything that would take his most important things, his family, and destroy them.
he manages a - ] Fucking let him go! [ and then launches forward with the knife in hand, blood be damned. this time, though, he's not quite at fast, and makes a pained noise as the smoke connects.
immediately, his back hits the ground, and he starts writhing, stabbing at it - anything to get it off and kill it dead. ] I said let him go!
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they make eye contact, and the terror in percy's face is so familiar it's like deja vu. he remembers the look on percy's face, when vex'ahlia finally convinced him out of that mask. the unadulterated trauma. fear.
he sees the way his mouth won't move and something angry twists in his chest. the same anger from vex'ahlia, before, a fierce fury at anything that would take his most important things, his family, and destroy them.
he manages a - ] Fucking let him go! [ and then launches forward with the knife in hand, blood be damned. this time, though, he's not quite at fast, and makes a pained noise as the smoke connects.
immediately, his back hits the ground, and he starts writhing, stabbing at it - anything to get it off and kill it dead. ] I said let him go!