DEIMOS
the resurrected sword
Ambushing and mauling the courier wouldn’t be the challenge – it would be dealing with the impending cycle of moods and petulance thereafter. Deimos presumed he could always chuck the child into the mud and then leave, his work and assistance in the matter complete.
Shrugging his shoulders and not revealing any portion of the plan save for the dregs of his impish smile, his eyes turned towards the scale, and then back towards the Valkyrie, snorting at the implications. There’d been no reason for armor here, save for instances where he probably should’ve been protected, guarded, and then did nothing of the sort. “War,” for the reasons before, and presently, horizon’s bending their shadows into closer and closer inklings.
He managed a laugh at the retort, flashing his own feral grin in return. “I know you enjoy defiance,” and if his provocations were enough to segment the whirlwind of tempests into the…somewhat safe threshold of the world around them, then so be it. With a complimentary nod, he tossed the scale into the air, and then gripped upon it with the same incantations, causing it to flicker and dance about in the surroundings without a predictable course, intending to impart the sedition upon Ru and her lightning.
Shrugging his shoulders and not revealing any portion of the plan save for the dregs of his impish smile, his eyes turned towards the scale, and then back towards the Valkyrie, snorting at the implications. There’d been no reason for armor here, save for instances where he probably should’ve been protected, guarded, and then did nothing of the sort. “War,” for the reasons before, and presently, horizon’s bending their shadows into closer and closer inklings.
He managed a laugh at the retort, flashing his own feral grin in return. “I know you enjoy defiance,” and if his provocations were enough to segment the whirlwind of tempests into the…somewhat safe threshold of the world around them, then so be it. With a complimentary nod, he tossed the scale into the air, and then gripped upon it with the same incantations, causing it to flicker and dance about in the surroundings without a predictable course, intending to impart the sedition upon Ru and her lightning.
under the bludgeonings of chance
my head is bloody, but unbowed
my head is bloody, but unbowed
