[ Before... all of this happened, this would have set Silco off. Even now, the thought of it forces his hand, a tightening of it that feels all-too painful. A reminder of his fingers digging desperately through the rubble, coming up with nothing. Seeing Gen flee with a box had made him angrier, and he'd felt it, the way his body started to pull apart at the seams, the discord and distress mingling, as his skin flaked away, the bone and sinew of his body exposed, open veins leaking a trail of shimmer throughout Kowloon.
Silco knew precisely how vulnerable she was. He knew exactly how close he had come. If Set hadn't known, if Set hadn't thought to retrieve her β
He would have lost everything. He knows it. There was nothing Yima, or Florence, or anyone would have been able to do. For all that they appear as leaders, there are some things they simply would not do. For all of her compassion, care and supposed "love", there was something Yima would never do, even though there was a part of him that raged at the fact that she was fully ineffective at even protecting herself. And really, would she do anything to even protect β ?
No matter. ]
I am intimately aware of how vulnerable said shards are.
[ He hissed. He does not share how close it had been, how he had been forced to beg before Set to have his daughter returned to him, kept out of his grasp by a violent and petty war god, one who he understood intimately, and would not forget that, just as he could not forget how Set had been convinced that he had abandoned the two of them fully when he had shattered Quetzalcoatl.
How close he had been to being right. ]
Don't worry, Sebastian, your advice is noted and appreciated.
[ He said, with odd neutrality. He doesn't dare give away how close he had gotten to just that. ]
cw a little bit of body horror 8)
Silco knew precisely how vulnerable she was. He knew exactly how close he had come. If Set hadn't known, if Set hadn't thought to retrieve her β
He would have lost everything. He knows it. There was nothing Yima, or Florence, or anyone would have been able to do. For all that they appear as leaders, there are some things they simply would not do. For all of her compassion, care and supposed "love", there was something Yima would never do, even though there was a part of him that raged at the fact that she was fully ineffective at even protecting herself. And really, would she do anything to even protect β ?
No matter. ]
I am intimately aware of how vulnerable said shards are.
[ He hissed. He does not share how close it had been, how he had been forced to beg before Set to have his daughter returned to him, kept out of his grasp by a violent and petty war god, one who he understood intimately, and would not forget that, just as he could not forget how Set had been convinced that he had abandoned the two of them fully when he had shattered Quetzalcoatl.
How close he had been to being right. ]
Don't worry, Sebastian, your advice is noted and appreciated.
[ He said, with odd neutrality. He doesn't dare give away how close he had gotten to just that. ]