an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth
a knife for the ribs
a knife for the ribs
He's convinced that she's about to remove his throat as she kneels astride him, and there's a miasma of guilt and fear and utter loathing in his eyes as he glares up at her. Never has he felt so helpless against an enemy, where every lick of his power does precisely nothing against it; where even the weapon he had been able to wield had been snatched from him like a toy from a child. Good for nothing, even if Dahlia kills him here, Ronin will be able to do little more than send a message to his husband and pray he gets to their children in time.
His brows flinch together in confusion as those claws bite into his cheeks and his jaw rather than his jugular, though, as she gives him an order, and before he can so much as ask what she means, her lips are upon his. To Ronin's credit, he fights it at first, the echo of Sunjata's warning suddenly flaring in his mind like an alarm, but all too quickly, the urge to struggle against her, against anything at all, fades into a warm and violet pool of calm.
Blinking up into Dahlia's face, one crimson coated hand coming up to touch his lips, he regards her with soft curiosity, as if wondering why he'd ever been afraid. "I understand now," he rasps, his throat dry, blood still pooling and seeping through the boards beneath him.
His brows flinch together in confusion as those claws bite into his cheeks and his jaw rather than his jugular, though, as she gives him an order, and before he can so much as ask what she means, her lips are upon his. To Ronin's credit, he fights it at first, the echo of Sunjata's warning suddenly flaring in his mind like an alarm, but all too quickly, the urge to struggle against her, against anything at all, fades into a warm and violet pool of calm.
Blinking up into Dahlia's face, one crimson coated hand coming up to touch his lips, he regards her with soft curiosity, as if wondering why he'd ever been afraid. "I understand now," he rasps, his throat dry, blood still pooling and seeping through the boards beneath him.
RONIN
