RONIN
This was not what Ronin had been expecting when they had suggested going to train up on the volcano. He'd been expecting to dodge fireballs and rocks, not this. Not this yawning, endless nightmare, whispering his own name insidiously in his mind as the world screamed and his daughter died over and over again. He'd imagined it so many times (oh the guilt of not having been there) but to see it here and now was worse than anything his brain could have come up with.
The lion pounced and coarsed through him, the spirit form making him feel numb with cold, turning his legs to water and silencing any thought he wanted to send Remi's way. No, stop, he desperately wanted to say. Or This is too much, I can't do this. But of course nothing would come out, of his thoughts or otherwise, and the luxere violently tossed his head as if that might let him escape the blood and horror of the festival he'd not attended.
Ronin didn't know when he'd buckled to the floor, or when he'd shed the luxere form in favour of his own. He didn't know much at that point, on his knees and hunched in on himself, his arms protecting his head as if he could ward off the attacks on his mind with something physical. He trembled violently, chest heaving with silent sobs, and even the ground beneath him felt a million miles from here.
The lion pounced and coarsed through him, the spirit form making him feel numb with cold, turning his legs to water and silencing any thought he wanted to send Remi's way. No, stop, he desperately wanted to say. Or This is too much, I can't do this. But of course nothing would come out, of his thoughts or otherwise, and the luxere violently tossed his head as if that might let him escape the blood and horror of the festival he'd not attended.
Ronin didn't know when he'd buckled to the floor, or when he'd shed the luxere form in favour of his own. He didn't know much at that point, on his knees and hunched in on himself, his arms protecting his head as if he could ward off the attacks on his mind with something physical. He trembled violently, chest heaving with silent sobs, and even the ground beneath him felt a million miles from here.
