where I save you and you save me
He listened to the drumbeat of the boy’s heart lessen in its staccato, panicked edges, fumbling back into the calm, curious aspects of youth, of newness, of discovery. Loosening his protective edges a degree, he simply snorted, watched; another stately, stoic, and solid form to ensure neither Erebos, nor frost fox now, came to any vitriol, any harm.
Though the inquiry had him rolling his eyes. “May have to narrow that down.” What had they been reading the previous evening – his mind reaching amidst the cast of characters from the rewritten Outlander tome; long since left behind and absconded by Deimos’ inquiring mind, passing it along to anyone in the family who wanted a listen amidst bedtime hours. “Olivia, Sebastian, Orsino, Viola, Malvolia, Feste…,” he couldn’t imagine Erebos setting his heart upon dubbing the companion any other minor forms. Wrinkling his nose, and waiting for the judgment to be perused, then passed, he conjured another deep rumble. “We will have to find a place for him.” With the conspiracy that this had been purposeful, the Sword had no doubt the youth had already managed to think of potential spots.
Though the inquiry had him rolling his eyes. “May have to narrow that down.” What had they been reading the previous evening – his mind reaching amidst the cast of characters from the rewritten Outlander tome; long since left behind and absconded by Deimos’ inquiring mind, passing it along to anyone in the family who wanted a listen amidst bedtime hours. “Olivia, Sebastian, Orsino, Viola, Malvolia, Feste…,” he couldn’t imagine Erebos setting his heart upon dubbing the companion any other minor forms. Wrinkling his nose, and waiting for the judgment to be perused, then passed, he conjured another deep rumble. “We will have to find a place for him.” With the conspiracy that this had been purposeful, the Sword had no doubt the youth had already managed to think of potential spots.
Deimos
and we save each other over and over, a hundred times, endlessly
