gratuitous violence; unnecessary, satisfying, heartbreaking
"Oh, I imagine the gods are qualified. But," and here Ronin's voice lowers playfully, as if what he's about to say is traitorous and wrong, "if you ask me, I think they need therapy too, before they can even start dishing it out to us." Smirking out at the moonlit expanse of the Tundra, his opinion can stay between them and the snows.
The smile fades a touch, of course, to hear Hotaru's story, and he glances sidelong across to her with a gentle nod that contains equal part grief and agreement. "Mm, me too," he says simply, though that is not a book he feels either of them will want to open. Too many wounds had closed up that will reopen by talking about it.
Seizing onto the new subject, he nods his confirmation. "A burning bird that burns his own clothes off if I'm silly enough to partial shift too much," he says, raising his eyebrows to hear that she also has a shift these days. "I would hardly say that's not impressive. I have no predator shifts - just a stag that takes over my head at Leafchange, and a fiery bird."
The smile fades a touch, of course, to hear Hotaru's story, and he glances sidelong across to her with a gentle nod that contains equal part grief and agreement. "Mm, me too," he says simply, though that is not a book he feels either of them will want to open. Too many wounds had closed up that will reopen by talking about it.
Seizing onto the new subject, he nods his confirmation. "A burning bird that burns his own clothes off if I'm silly enough to partial shift too much," he says, raising his eyebrows to hear that she also has a shift these days. "I would hardly say that's not impressive. I have no predator shifts - just a stag that takes over my head at Leafchange, and a fiery bird."
RONIN
