[ dextera doesn’t even respond to that. there are a number of insults that could get under his skin, and luckily, that isn’t really one of them. he knows he’s an idiot—he knows he’s choosing the harder path, the one that may just trap him in his own sin for the rest of his life, but he desperately doesn’t want that choice to be made for him.
so, although amos has the physical advantage and manages to get a hold of dextera just like he wanted, the only thing dextera can do now is force his body to go limp as everything he has is diverted to protecting his mind and heart. the physical fight is lost, but he doesn’t think amos is going to kill him. he has to hope amos isn’t going to kill him.
which means, his last bastion is to hold onto the sunlight warming his shard and pray. ]
Hayame…
[ it’s an apology as well as a beacon; of all the people he feels like he owes the effort to, hayame is someone he knows has been working herself to the bone to ensure meridian’s victory. he’d asked her earlier to save him from a mind he knows is weak, and although he desperately wants to fend off amos with his own power, it’s starting to feel futile. ]
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so, although amos has the physical advantage and manages to get a hold of dextera just like he wanted, the only thing dextera can do now is force his body to go limp as everything he has is diverted to protecting his mind and heart. the physical fight is lost, but he doesn’t think amos is going to kill him. he has to hope amos isn’t going to kill him.
which means, his last bastion is to hold onto the sunlight warming his shard and pray. ]
Hayame…
[ it’s an apology as well as a beacon; of all the people he feels like he owes the effort to, hayame is someone he knows has been working herself to the bone to ensure meridian’s victory. he’d asked her earlier to save him from a mind he knows is weak, and although he desperately wants to fend off amos with his own power, it’s starting to feel futile. ]