// once you're in my shining cathedral, heed the tolling bell //
He watches as she sinks into her slumber, as the tense breaths and tightness to her shoulders begin to relax. All notes that she’s falling asleep, but its only when her breaths even out that the butcher’s weight shifts slightly on the bed, keeping his dark gaze on her to ensure that she’s not going to stir awake. And when she doesn’t, Astaroth slowly slips off the bed, tail twitching a touch restlessly at his heels as he quietly makes his way back to the table with his smiling shadow in tow.
Snagging a piece of paper and a quill and ink, the butcher leaves her a note in his sprawling, surprisingly beautiful handwriting. Such that when she wakes up in the morning she’d have the reminder when she read the little card, immediately spotting the ‘I am here for you whenever you need me. If you need me now, come to the Dusklight and find me. - A’
Satisfied with it, he downs the rest of her drink if only so it doesn’t go bad, and slips out the door and closes it snugly behind him. Then, with the restlessness still glittering in his soul, the butcher shifts to his fyrhund shift to head home, trying to burn off as much energy as possible.
- FIN
Snagging a piece of paper and a quill and ink, the butcher leaves her a note in his sprawling, surprisingly beautiful handwriting. Such that when she wakes up in the morning she’d have the reminder when she read the little card, immediately spotting the ‘I am here for you whenever you need me. If you need me now, come to the Dusklight and find me. - A’
Satisfied with it, he downs the rest of her drink if only so it doesn’t go bad, and slips out the door and closes it snugly behind him. Then, with the restlessness still glittering in his soul, the butcher shifts to his fyrhund shift to head home, trying to burn off as much energy as possible.
- FIN
Astaroth
// it's the final sound you hear as you descend to hell //
