oceans rise, empires fall, we have seen each other through it all
The curse, like the disrespect, is taken with the sort of infuriating indifference of the overly confident. Shaju pauses just beyond Nate's peripheral vision, in such a way that the Ascended will have to twist and briefly look into the sun in order to keep him in view. "On the contrary," he murmurs, "I count on you being lucky. This would be much less boring if you weren't."
Little does Shaju know, of course, that soon enough the boy is going to put up a notice that will ramp up the timescale of the brewing confrontation. That there will be no further games of cat and mouse, that these few days of capture and torture is all he's going to get from Nate. Luckily, though, he doesn't plan to waste even one second of it.
~FIN
Little does Shaju know, of course, that soon enough the boy is going to put up a notice that will ramp up the timescale of the brewing confrontation. That there will be no further games of cat and mouse, that these few days of capture and torture is all he's going to get from Nate. Luckily, though, he doesn't plan to waste even one second of it.
~FIN
SHAJU
