[ 'Your tethers are your life', or something like that. Maybe it's a fine allegory for the general state of affairs, Bazz tossing something apparently directly linked to his own wellbeing, however softly. His own irritation grows, moreso than Bazz has usually been able to get out of him for the past several hundreds of years, almost as though echoed back at him from the very environment.
Kill him. And, suddenly, here emerges his own voice, harsher, the Shadow in the back of his mind. Kill him before he kills you. He's going to. He'll only hold you back if he stays alive. What have you ever gained from associating with him? What benefit does this conversation have?
Jugram frowns, ever-so-slightly, and regards him tensely. His shadow isn't wrong. ]
You should leave now.
[ Yet—the words are hard to say. He watched this man die, and here he is again, alive, breathing.
...They'll see each other again. They will. Not that it matters.
And if some of the reluctance makes its way through the newly formed connection between them, Jugram's none the wiser. ]
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[ 'Your tethers are your life', or something like that. Maybe it's a fine allegory for the general state of affairs, Bazz tossing something apparently directly linked to his own wellbeing, however softly. His own irritation grows, moreso than Bazz has usually been able to get out of him for the past several hundreds of years, almost as though echoed back at him from the very environment.
Kill him. And, suddenly, here emerges his own voice, harsher, the Shadow in the back of his mind. Kill him before he kills you. He's going to. He'll only hold you back if he stays alive. What have you ever gained from associating with him? What benefit does this conversation have?
Jugram frowns, ever-so-slightly, and regards him tensely. His shadow isn't wrong. ]
You should leave now.
[ Yet—the words are hard to say. He watched this man die, and here he is again, alive, breathing.
...They'll see each other again. They will. Not that it matters.
And if some of the reluctance makes its way through the newly formed connection between them, Jugram's none the wiser. ]