I will stand by you forever; you can take my breath away
The man is actually a woman but the fact that the kid isn’t able to tell (not that she knows that he can’t tell, but y’know) would probably delight the Wraith to no end. All the better if she can be sexless and indeterminable.
She’d not seen him before, or maybe she had and immediately written him off on account of his limp. No danger, that one, until he snorts and Wessex’s attention snaps over to him. The disc clatters to the dock, the Hel squawks rather indignantly, as if to laugh at her too and - nothing happens. Fake-sighing, she goes to retrieve it, barking what she hopes is a gruffly dismissive, “Fuck off” to her audience of one.
Two, if you count the Hel.
She’d not seen him before, or maybe she had and immediately written him off on account of his limp. No danger, that one, until he snorts and Wessex’s attention snaps over to him. The disc clatters to the dock, the Hel squawks rather indignantly, as if to laugh at her too and - nothing happens. Fake-sighing, she goes to retrieve it, barking what she hopes is a gruffly dismissive, “Fuck off” to her audience of one.
Two, if you count the Hel.
WESSEX