I think I can manage being collateral damage
"Err." Having grown enough to know that what Ronin actually wanted was for Everest to ensure the creature didn't go anywhere, but having not broken his obedient streak quite yet, the aviator was left nodding slowly. "Sure, just...don't take too long."
So saying, Ever stared at the strange creature before folding his arms over his chest. "You don't seem so bad." He murmured, hunkering down onto his heels in order to bring himself more in the snake's eye line. Recognizing what it did in him, the serpent slithered forward, sticking its small black tongue in and out of its mouth before pressing a winged head against one of Ever's knees. Rather than feeling the overwhelming despair and anxiety that normally accompanied the presence of void creatures, the aviator found himself laughing.
'Alright, alright. Not bad at all.'
So saying, Ever stared at the strange creature before folding his arms over his chest. "You don't seem so bad." He murmured, hunkering down onto his heels in order to bring himself more in the snake's eye line. Recognizing what it did in him, the serpent slithered forward, sticking its small black tongue in and out of its mouth before pressing a winged head against one of Ever's knees. Rather than feeling the overwhelming despair and anxiety that normally accompanied the presence of void creatures, the aviator found himself laughing.
'Alright, alright. Not bad at all.'
Even if I had to lose you to know you I'd still be that temporary phase that you grow through
