( Mishka takes in what he's told with particular acuity, for whether this is a strange dream begot by the abyss or his new reality, he'll have to live with all this for the next while until he meets some second ending.
Still. Adelis is animated as he talks, agitated as always and familiar in a way he hadn't been in awhile. It is nice to listen to him grouse and snipe about pettier matters, when far more recent memories recounted an Adelis weighed down heavy by worse matters. Weaker and starving; struggling, grit teeth and nails dug into skin, against a curse unbearable.
If this is an extended vision shown to him in the last moments before he's swallowed by the gaping abyss, then he finds no surprise in the fact that he's met an Adelis who is as he once was.
In any case, this reverie of thought is why he's quite off guard when Adelis throws a full force smack at him - reflexively, he's quick to twist back and turn on his ankle in a manner fairly professional - but it's a little too late and Adelis is a little too close for Mishka to save himself. Ow !!!!!! )
And what, mind you, incurred this particular debt? ( PUTS A HAND ON HIS CHEEK... It doesn't really hurt past the initial sting, but it'll probably leave a mark for a time. ) The sheer gall of my appearance here, or some other transaction?
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Still. Adelis is animated as he talks, agitated as always and familiar in a way he hadn't been in awhile. It is nice to listen to him grouse and snipe about pettier matters, when far more recent memories recounted an Adelis weighed down heavy by worse matters. Weaker and starving; struggling, grit teeth and nails dug into skin, against a curse unbearable.
If this is an extended vision shown to him in the last moments before he's swallowed by the gaping abyss, then he finds no surprise in the fact that he's met an Adelis who is as he once was.
In any case, this reverie of thought is why he's quite off guard when Adelis throws a full force smack at him - reflexively, he's quick to twist back and turn on his ankle in a manner fairly professional - but it's a little too late and Adelis is a little too close for Mishka to save himself. Ow !!!!!! )
And what, mind you, incurred this particular debt? ( PUTS A HAND ON HIS CHEEK... It doesn't really hurt past the initial sting, but it'll probably leave a mark for a time. ) The sheer gall of my appearance here, or some other transaction?