...but then he halts, frozen in place, captivated into caution by something that does not feel right.
He does not hear the voices that beguile his blood-brother. He only feels a presence of a sort, a force that reverberates off the stone and the crystal, the ruined corpse of a wretch and the trembling adoration that sparks in Öde’s face. Reginald can only watch, transfixed, as Öde is borne to his feet--transformed from a grieving child into a disciple of a some kind.
Demonking floats from his mouth, into the ear of the Grey-Eye’d Prince.
He watches, carefully; he hears the oaths flying from black and crimson lips. Something hitches in Reginald’s throat as he beholds something he does not understand; something equally powerful and dangerous, and so, so bizzare. He does not know yet if his friend’s soul has been spirited off into the shadow-clad land of madness, or if something larger and grand is at work in these cavernous halls. He considers turning from here, leaving things that ought to be detestable; the idea is discarded before it is properly formed.
Womb-water does not tie them; dragon-fire does not protect the coal-black hide of this boy. Somewhere, they are brothers, and he will stay.
“Öde,” he says again, rapt and urgent, and the stones and echos of a cave do not steal this breath from him.
"This is how I talk"
Oh, you're just a target in the sky
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