// standing, stomping in the damage and the ruins of a slip of tongue //
“You just—” Hissing out a breath of frustration, the butcher doesn’t complete the thought (which would have absolutely been a said you wouldn’t let her in the Dusklight) but the moment passes as he rises to his feet, suddenly squirrely and pissed. “There is a difference, Danta, between expectation and surprise.” To know the crow would be around would certainly put him on edge but it wouldn’t make him exactly like this.
But then Danta is standing after him and it feels more like a fight that’s reminiscent of their battles in the Climb and it has him bristling even more. “Do not presume to know how I would act if you had told me first.” He growls out, sucking in a breath to elongate the argument, hands clenching into fists as his posture becomes tense and ramrod straight. “Do you know what is the most traumatizing thing about it? The surprise.” Each and every time he’d gotten like this, it had been an unannounced corvid descending nearby enough to him to bring him back to that day.
But then Danta is standing after him and it feels more like a fight that’s reminiscent of their battles in the Climb and it has him bristling even more. “Do not presume to know how I would act if you had told me first.” He growls out, sucking in a breath to elongate the argument, hands clenching into fists as his posture becomes tense and ramrod straight. “Do you know what is the most traumatizing thing about it? The surprise.” Each and every time he’d gotten like this, it had been an unannounced corvid descending nearby enough to him to bring him back to that day.
Astaroth
// with tragic consequences, i think that we've all made our gravest mistakes //
