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06-18-2016, 10:05 PM
 Caneo; The laughter strikes him like a handful of cold water. Though Caneo does not visibly flinch, something in his eyes tightens almost imperceptibly; something stills in the dormant hollow of his chest. Beneath the black beast's skin, beneath its voice and scars and the crazed expression carved irreversibly by injury, something is wrong. Madness, maybe. Caneo isn't sure, only his first inkling of weird increases by the moment, and he has survived too long in places worse than this to be anything but wary. He stands, tall and slim and quiet. He smiles still, though the smile grows sharp and glints too bright. In his mane, the snake curls lazily, fat with her meal. He feels - out of his depth. And Caneo hates it. He responds with a snort to the question, genuinely dumbfounded as to whether the threat is meant in earnest or in jest. "That would be funny," Caneo returns. He has seen old soldiers do stranger things than that, hasn't he? Black water shivers at the back of his mind and he puts it away. He is here, in the meadow. Here, grown and fast. The beast before him may smell of danger but it looks weak, too, and something frays at the edges of it like a water-damaged photograph. Maybe he should run away. "Hmm - " Caneo says instead. He looks younger with his face canted this way, with his ears up and his eyes bright. He lies with more effort now, determined to be unafraid. Determined, also, to unravel the mystery unspooling before him. "You feel okay, Uncle? Are you tired? You look pretty old, and there are better things to eat around here for the likes of us." The grass whispers around his fetlocks as he shifts, himself half skeletal even in good weight, his coat the color of mercury in the sun. "I could walk you home, if you want." Perhaps, in the language of warriors, this is an insult. Perhaps even Caneo means it as one. But he knows he is speaking part truth, and he wants to know where the beast came from. all the children painted diagrams of god upon their hands |
ooc// I know they're the same age but Knox is more banged up, right? And Caneo is rude..
* violence & magic use always permitted *
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