you were automatic and as hollow as the 'O' in god
"You didn't know it was a date at all," Danta concedes with an equally as guilty shrug. "Which is on me. I figured it would be a fun story to yank your chain about when you got home." Nothing more, nothing less. Just oblivious, gentlemanly Asta having to tail along with the Queen of Torchline's vibrant hijinks. And now apparently she'd almost died (but hadn't, he remembers that much from Asta's snappy explanation) and the butcher has arrived back late and like this.
Raising his eyebrows to hear that they'd come to The Climb, Danta stifles his next question about why the fuck Asta had been so late, swallowing it back because it helps precisely nobody at this point. Instead, letting some of the flames lick at their cheeks and hair to burn away the blood if only so they don't look quite so monstrous at a first glance, he leans shamelessly against the butcher and hurries on bare feet back towards the Dusklight.
If anything there's a raucous sort of cheer that rises up to see the two Ancients return, the patrons clearly assuming there had been a fight between the owner and his security, but that their camaraderie signals that all is well again now. And it's a relief, honestly, because Danta is able to seize yet another bottle of wine and demand some hot water be brought up to his room, before he's leading his way upstairs on weary feet.
Raising his eyebrows to hear that they'd come to The Climb, Danta stifles his next question about why the fuck Asta had been so late, swallowing it back because it helps precisely nobody at this point. Instead, letting some of the flames lick at their cheeks and hair to burn away the blood if only so they don't look quite so monstrous at a first glance, he leans shamelessly against the butcher and hurries on bare feet back towards the Dusklight.
If anything there's a raucous sort of cheer that rises up to see the two Ancients return, the patrons clearly assuming there had been a fight between the owner and his security, but that their camaraderie signals that all is well again now. And it's a relief, honestly, because Danta is able to seize yet another bottle of wine and demand some hot water be brought up to his room, before he's leading his way upstairs on weary feet.
Dantalion
Horns: Diamond - they look very similar to #2 in this image.
