lose your faith in me [open]

AEDION the moral of the story is, i will gut you if i need to. She tells him she doesn’t know what Hell is and he finds his eyes fluttering to look upon her face. He thinks that hell is universal, a place of eternal suffering that terrible people endure until the end of time. But there’s no room to interject, nor would the pounding in his head allow him to do much of anything. She tells him that this place is called Caido and the specific place he’s fallen in is called the Hallowed Ground. Suddenly Aedion thinks he’s fallen into some kind of joke. There’s a huff of a grunt from him in response, but he catalogues it away anyway. It would probably be useful to know more about this place, more so the ability to leave at some point. She looks to the moon, then, and he follows her gaze briefly before she’s moving to lean before him. His jaw clenches again and he flashes his teeth slightly like a wounded wolf. But there isn’t much he can do, he knows that much at least. He finally lets down his guard as he mentions he’s finished falling and his head lowers slightly, his hair hiding parts of his face from her. He isn’t sure how to respond? Certainly he should be dead after a fall like that, but there’s surprisingly no pain – just a sudden pounding in his head and this horrible weakness he can’t quite place how to fix. She calls him a name, then, and his gaze slips from the spot in the pebbled ground to look back st her, a look of confusion crossing his face. What did that name mean and why shouldn’t he feel pain? His hand flexes on his side and he flashes her a fanged wolfish grin though he doesn’t feel it through. It doesn’t match his eyes. “What does ‘Ascended’ mean?” He begins, before he focuses on her briefly. “I’m not… hurt… I don’t think. Just… weak.” He stumbles over the ability to admit it. His eyes leave her face to look back at his surroundings, his eyes narrowing slightly at the dark surroundings. If she knew what he had been changed into, perhaps it wasn’t a fault to ask. But he’s uncertain, and while he’s weak and confused he realizes she could take advantage of him. It goes against everything he’s learned in his life, but he tries to focus on the positives – however hard it is. She is a doctor after all. i will carve my way out, with only my teeth.