this is the reckoning
If Deimos were in the right temperament, a majority of the time he could coax another fiend into mischief. Just a moment, an instant, a second of antics that weren’t combined into melancholy or machinations. Brief, flickering little glimpses – things they could latch onto later on, and the rest of the wake didn’t feel so cold or unwieldly.
He wasn’t surprised when Cordelia joined in, snorting, raising his hound head when the streaks of snow burst down upon them. They covered and contorted across his shoulders into an ivory powder, ivory on Stygian, and he laughed again, some better part of the wilderness taking hold. All at once he violently shook, so the particles would rain back and down in the luxere’s direction, before he took off again.
The clearing offered a wide variety of drifts, mounds upon mounds of stuff collected in the corners, where it must’ve somehow banked due to wind pressing in. The Sword took it as an opportunity, as he so often did, rampaging towards the surface, intending to shirk behind it and reveal himself on the other side –
Except he didn’t count on the surface being nothing more than a pretense – for the sunken proportions were quite hollow.
There was a brief noise as he launched, landed, and then immediately fell inwards, into the knoll itself, with another round of barks and chuckles.
He wasn’t surprised when Cordelia joined in, snorting, raising his hound head when the streaks of snow burst down upon them. They covered and contorted across his shoulders into an ivory powder, ivory on Stygian, and he laughed again, some better part of the wilderness taking hold. All at once he violently shook, so the particles would rain back and down in the luxere’s direction, before he took off again.
The clearing offered a wide variety of drifts, mounds upon mounds of stuff collected in the corners, where it must’ve somehow banked due to wind pressing in. The Sword took it as an opportunity, as he so often did, rampaging towards the surface, intending to shirk behind it and reveal himself on the other side –
Except he didn’t count on the surface being nothing more than a pretense – for the sunken proportions were quite hollow.
There was a brief noise as he launched, landed, and then immediately fell inwards, into the knoll itself, with another round of barks and chuckles.
DEIMOS
