"Not quite." She breathes, heavy, through gritted teeth. It's psychosomatic, it has to be—her stupid brain latching onto the magical recreations of the feelings from so long ago and refusing to let go. Trauma response. Inconvenient. "Efrain— he would've done this anyway. The Princes love big displays of power like this, it feeds their domains, but— it does distract them."
Mendel with his grand display at the gala, throwing everyone into madness and disarray, not expecting the attack from Jean as he sat ugly waiting and swallowing up everyone's suffering. Now Efrain, conductor of his own miserable opera, drowning in sorrow just the way he likes, not expecting Nimona to come for his throat.
She starts walking again.
"Aster— wants his brothers dead, it's some... right of ascension thing. The others probably want him dead, too, he's just—" wince, groan, "he's just been the most proactive about it. I-In the short-term, less demons is probably better for us, long-term— long-term I don't know."
Aster has his plans. Plans she can't share because they were, again, told to her in confidence by Valdis. If they want to avoid being stuck in a hell run by Aster alone, they need to get the barrier down.
no subject
"Not quite." She breathes, heavy, through gritted teeth. It's psychosomatic, it has to be—her stupid brain latching onto the magical recreations of the feelings from so long ago and refusing to let go. Trauma response. Inconvenient. "Efrain— he would've done this anyway. The Princes love big displays of power like this, it feeds their domains, but— it does distract them."
Mendel with his grand display at the gala, throwing everyone into madness and disarray, not expecting the attack from Jean as he sat ugly waiting and swallowing up everyone's suffering. Now Efrain, conductor of his own miserable opera, drowning in sorrow just the way he likes, not expecting Nimona to come for his throat.
She starts walking again.
"Aster— wants his brothers dead, it's some... right of ascension thing. The others probably want him dead, too, he's just—" wince, groan, "he's just been the most proactive about it. I-In the short-term, less demons is probably better for us, long-term— long-term I don't know."
Aster has his plans. Plans she can't share because they were, again, told to her in confidence by Valdis. If they want to avoid being stuck in a hell run by Aster alone, they need to get the barrier down.