DEIMOS
the resurrected sword
Maybe it would just take time, experience, modicums of things he’d had long before, childhood training morphing and altering into adulthood rapacity – a release of apprehension, a keen sensation of comfort in the chicanery. He might’ve returned a nose lick had there not been retaliation and vengeance on his mind, a cloud of revenge, amusement rolling and coiling through their connection. The Sword supplied some of it, a warm chuckle, a sense of ease building, brewing, imminent contortions pummeling through the void.
There was a counter to his onslaught, another expectation, because neither were ever going to simply give in; not in their distinctions, not in their thresholds, not in their parameters. The snow bounded and cascaded into his face once more, painting over the gray hairs with more ivory, more chill, not even bothering to shake it off, savoring the spread of its existence over his hide. Instead, he burrowed down into the rime, rising again on a lunge, on a plunge, intending to push the snow anywhere and everywhere just based on his size and brawn. She kept a pursuit, which made his limbs coast into a fluid motion, circling back around, massive paws pushing the powder back at her once more, patterns of movement, persistent and relentless.
There was a counter to his onslaught, another expectation, because neither were ever going to simply give in; not in their distinctions, not in their thresholds, not in their parameters. The snow bounded and cascaded into his face once more, painting over the gray hairs with more ivory, more chill, not even bothering to shake it off, savoring the spread of its existence over his hide. Instead, he burrowed down into the rime, rising again on a lunge, on a plunge, intending to push the snow anywhere and everywhere just based on his size and brawn. She kept a pursuit, which made his limbs coast into a fluid motion, circling back around, massive paws pushing the powder back at her once more, patterns of movement, persistent and relentless.
still standing
not because you can
but because you have to
