Date: 2023-10-07 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
It'll wear off after a bit....until then you have the strongest man in the world by your side.

[ that sounds stupider than he normally does, smh. ]

Date: 2023-10-07 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
Even the strongest man in the world has feelings you know!

[ though it's hard to tell if he's actually offended. ]

...you wanna just sit here and pretend it's not happening?

Date: 2023-10-07 04:40 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
At least there's no goose this time.

[ ... ]

You wanna ask me anything? Now's your chance since I can't just run away.

Date: 2023-10-07 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
[ his fingers twitch a bit at that, but he doesn't retort or anything. ]

Oh, uh. My master trained me not to accept food from anyone else. He poisoned me more times than I can remember. Not that I don't think Hung's a good guy but—

[ he stops himself there. some habits are beat into you, and others are forced down your throat. ]

Date: 2023-10-07 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
I didn't say I enjoyed it! Atreau scared all his other disciples away, cause no one else could deal with his methods. But I had to stay so I could become the strongest man in the world.

Date: 2023-10-08 05:21 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
Cause I want to make sure what happened to my family, to my village, doesn't happen to anyone else. Fiends are born hating humans. As long as they exist, they'll keep killing us just for being alive.

Date: 2023-10-08 05:28 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
Yeah. And my entire village. Or most of it. The ones they didn't kill they enslaved until they died too.

Except for me.
Edited Date: 2023-10-08 05:29 am (UTC)

Date: 2023-10-08 03:41 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] querencias
[ nod. ]

I was a coward before all of that who couldn't even really hold a sword, let alone protect anyone.