04-04-2020, 01:42 AM
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Blood may be what the strange little sisters craved, but no red would spatter the sand or snow from his veins ever again. Only the foul color of tar, glistening slick where an eye once was beneath the dark lens of his mask.
That is if a child wielding infantile teeth and claws could breach the dense coat trapping heat close to his gaunt body, yet providing protection from sunburn nonetheless.
Fortune beamed upon the girl he plucked from the leg of the large insect, as though she were little more than a fluffy thorn stuck to hardened skin. Nikolai recognized her, of course. His remaining eye glanced at her broad smile, not quite finding any happiness behind incoming fangs. Two others arrived before him, most notably the translator and another child shouting nonsense. A hollow sigh fogged the inner panes of his lenses, the breath meekly rasping through the filter. It was always going to be like this, wasn't it?
The wolverine settled himself to observe, bearish ears perked to gather words in possible hopes of putting definition and reason behind them. Verysafe, verysafe. Assumedly repeated twice for emphasis. Was that the activity everyone waiting for? Nikolai balanced the muzzle of his gas mask atop broad paws, dull eye attentive on the little girl with the booming speech.
That is if a child wielding infantile teeth and claws could breach the dense coat trapping heat close to his gaunt body, yet providing protection from sunburn nonetheless.
Fortune beamed upon the girl he plucked from the leg of the large insect, as though she were little more than a fluffy thorn stuck to hardened skin. Nikolai recognized her, of course. His remaining eye glanced at her broad smile, not quite finding any happiness behind incoming fangs. Two others arrived before him, most notably the translator and another child shouting nonsense. A hollow sigh fogged the inner panes of his lenses, the breath meekly rasping through the filter. It was always going to be like this, wasn't it?
The wolverine settled himself to observe, bearish ears perked to gather words in possible hopes of putting definition and reason behind them. Verysafe, verysafe. Assumedly repeated twice for emphasis. Was that the activity everyone waiting for? Nikolai balanced the muzzle of his gas mask atop broad paws, dull eye attentive on the little girl with the booming speech.