[ Silco wonders if there is a way out of this that begins and ends with a lie that holds, but after a moment of careful calculation (something he had not used even moments ago) his eyes looked to the side, before he shrugged. The signs were all there, after all. Gen's neck was bleeding β albeit closer to the back, as if Silco had been trying to avoid touching him as much as he could β and there was the fact that both of his eyes were red in this moment, the lingering flash of bloodlust not-yet dead from both of his eyes. One looked to have barely changed, flecks of blood-red in a wash of molten hot lava, set against a void like that of the dark itself. The other, though, was normally pale. Blue. It was not right now.
So he gestured with his knife, idly. ]
You seemed to be down for the count.
[ He said simply. ] If you were, it was better to use what you had left for Zenith's advantage.
[ Well. That sure was a reasoning.
Silco's lips tightened into a too-tight flash of a smile. ] You didn't even react, boy. What was I supposed to do? Leave you be to rot here on the spot?
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[ Silco wonders if there is a way out of this that begins and ends with a lie that holds, but after a moment of careful calculation (something he had not used even moments ago) his eyes looked to the side, before he shrugged. The signs were all there, after all. Gen's neck was bleeding β albeit closer to the back, as if Silco had been trying to avoid touching him as much as he could β and there was the fact that both of his eyes were red in this moment, the lingering flash of bloodlust not-yet dead from both of his eyes. One looked to have barely changed, flecks of blood-red in a wash of molten hot lava, set against a void like that of the dark itself. The other, though, was normally pale. Blue. It was not right now.
So he gestured with his knife, idly. ]
You seemed to be down for the count.
[ He said simply. ] If you were, it was better to use what you had left for Zenith's advantage.
[ Well. That sure was a reasoning.
Silco's lips tightened into a too-tight flash of a smile. ] You didn't even react, boy. What was I supposed to do? Leave you be to rot here on the spot?