DEIMOS
what tried to destroy you
didn't have the strength
didn't have the strength
What should’ve been something normal became anything but. Deimos’ expectations had been one of mere blood or consternation, not the sudden slashing of a head, and then two more popping up from the empty portions.
So he couldn’t help it – he laughed.
The rumbling fixtures contorted through his ribcage as he soared upwards, half-shift of thunderbird wings extending and alighting him into the air, out of the way of the roaring and rampaging four heads now. “You look like something we would normally try to slay,” he assured, withholding another snort pulsing through. Maybe it was all the madness of everything else they’d ever encountered – because now he was strategizing rather than opening into trepidations and apprehensions. Normal cold-blooded calculations. Machinations whirling, exalted and ready.
Like not hitting at the heads any longer.
Instead, he flew rapidly towards the left, pinning his lashing and potent Mastered Air towards the hydra’s chest, and watching for multiple sets of teeth.
So he couldn’t help it – he laughed.
The rumbling fixtures contorted through his ribcage as he soared upwards, half-shift of thunderbird wings extending and alighting him into the air, out of the way of the roaring and rampaging four heads now. “You look like something we would normally try to slay,” he assured, withholding another snort pulsing through. Maybe it was all the madness of everything else they’d ever encountered – because now he was strategizing rather than opening into trepidations and apprehensions. Normal cold-blooded calculations. Machinations whirling, exalted and ready.
Like not hitting at the heads any longer.
Instead, he flew rapidly towards the left, pinning his lashing and potent Mastered Air towards the hydra’s chest, and watching for multiple sets of teeth.
still you stand
sturdy and smelling of smoke
sturdy and smelling of smoke
