VESPER
Vesper shrugs with exaggerated magnanimity, the movement smooth and careless as rain whispers through the leaves overhead. "Ah, but isn’t it always so nice to be invited?" he asks, offering a smile that is almost saccharine in its sweetness, all charm on the surface and nothing at all reaching his eyes.
That laugh—brief, involuntary—is a delight in its own right, and Vesper savours the texture of it as it ripples through Niki’s thoughts, bright and sharp and gone too quickly. A soft click of his tongue follows, not cruel so much as faintly disappointed. "Pity," he muses, tone thoughtful. "You did say you wouldn’t stop me. I’d hoped that meant you could, not that you were merely narrating the obvious." His sigh is theatrical, long-suffering in the way of someone indulging a familiar irritation. "For all the things you aren’t, I never took you for someone fond of empty words," he adds mildly, as though this is a genuine lapse rather than a calculated prod.
With a grin that flashes bright and knowing, he lifts one long leg as if to step neatly over where Niki still occupies the forest floor, pausing just long enough for the implication of how easy it would be to wack Vesper between the legs with his cane to hang there between them. His gaze flicks down, smirk sharpening with the unspoken awareness of exactly how foolish that would be. A low chuckle slips free, and the world ripples, shadow folding in on itself as Vesper misty-steps a few paces away, rain still failing to touch him. He turns as he goes, lifting a hand in a casual wave over his shoulder.
"I’ll be seeing you," he calls back merrily, already melting into the trees as the Wildwood quietly rearranges itself around him.
~FIN
That laugh—brief, involuntary—is a delight in its own right, and Vesper savours the texture of it as it ripples through Niki’s thoughts, bright and sharp and gone too quickly. A soft click of his tongue follows, not cruel so much as faintly disappointed. "Pity," he muses, tone thoughtful. "You did say you wouldn’t stop me. I’d hoped that meant you could, not that you were merely narrating the obvious." His sigh is theatrical, long-suffering in the way of someone indulging a familiar irritation. "For all the things you aren’t, I never took you for someone fond of empty words," he adds mildly, as though this is a genuine lapse rather than a calculated prod.
With a grin that flashes bright and knowing, he lifts one long leg as if to step neatly over where Niki still occupies the forest floor, pausing just long enough for the implication of how easy it would be to wack Vesper between the legs with his cane to hang there between them. His gaze flicks down, smirk sharpening with the unspoken awareness of exactly how foolish that would be. A low chuckle slips free, and the world ripples, shadow folding in on itself as Vesper misty-steps a few paces away, rain still failing to touch him. He turns as he goes, lifting a hand in a casual wave over his shoulder.
"I’ll be seeing you," he calls back merrily, already melting into the trees as the Wildwood quietly rearranges itself around him.
~FIN
the stars are pulling at my hair, and every part of me
and you don't understand how I bleed
and you don't understand how I bleed
☆ has a pale star tattoo beneath his left eye, and freckle-sized constellations move across his skin
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
