That's what I said. Do you plan on chasing after it yourself? That would be an unexpectedly heroic endeavor.
[She did not know him well, beyond the curious tenor of his voice, the probing curl of his smoke, and their current shared position within Zenith. He would have struck down a woman tending her own wounds if they were not, however tenuously, aligned to the same cause.]
I wouldn't say it was a person. Nor would he. True demons would obviously be slighted by the insult.
[She assumes. Exorcisms were intended to expel the darkness rather than focused on the life of the possessed, but it still held that most were still needed for individuals who had some small chance of being saved. Of true demons who had not hid themselves in human hearts, behind humans at all, but the abominations themselves? She shouldn't make a habit of talking to them about their preferences. She brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, pausing, a bandage faintly seeped with blood about he forearm.]
But that demon, he hasn't turned on Zenith. [Caren had hesitated to protect Sebastian from the misunderstanding of being seen as a traitor, but in the end, provided that excuse for him all the same.] You can call this collateral damage.
i think i flipped tenses on you in my last tag PLEASE FORGIVE
[She did not know him well, beyond the curious tenor of his voice, the probing curl of his smoke, and their current shared position within Zenith. He would have struck down a woman tending her own wounds if they were not, however tenuously, aligned to the same cause.]
I wouldn't say it was a person. Nor would he. True demons would obviously be slighted by the insult.
[She assumes. Exorcisms were intended to expel the darkness rather than focused on the life of the possessed, but it still held that most were still needed for individuals who had some small chance of being saved. Of true demons who had not hid themselves in human hearts, behind humans at all, but the abominations themselves? She shouldn't make a habit of talking to them about their preferences. She brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, pausing, a bandage faintly seeped with blood about he forearm.]
But that demon, he hasn't turned on Zenith. [Caren had hesitated to protect Sebastian from the misunderstanding of being seen as a traitor, but in the end, provided that excuse for him all the same.] You can call this collateral damage.