05-20-2020, 06:39 PM
She didn’t disagree, not even to inform him that if such had been the case he wouldn’t have any breath left to draw in order to thank her. Her dark eyes watched the creature instead as it hovered and fluctuated above, folding in and out of itself like a prism of light. It was strangely static, and less human looking than it had appeared moments before, but since it did not attack she did not act further. Neither did she release Li from her grip, though of course her arms had loosened to something comfortable. He would know not to stand too quickly else risk losing his feet. Nhysa did not hold him down, and nor would her muscles flex to restrain should he shift to move, but there was something both possessive and intimate in the drape of her arms.
“Are they not innocent also?” she asked. “Everything must eat.”
She rested her chin atop his head. A few sharp whips of darkness pushed fleeing guests from a path that might have trampled them on the floor, though cognisant of the danger she did not hold on to the power. The creatures did not seem concerned of the general populace, and the voracious channeling at the heart of the disturbance had faded also. Li was warm beneath her hands. Vaguely, she was aware of the thrumming of his heart. She sighed. “Yet you would not ask if it did not matter to you. And what is shadow without light, I suppose.”
Not that she sounded particularly convinced that their involvement was truly necessary, but apparently his own opinion made all the difference. Or maybe she simply liked the moniker he had chosen for her.
“You know their name. Do you know how they might be persuaded to move on?” She was a killer by trade and training, yet death was not her first instinct. At least not in these circumstances. She could incapacitate the food sources, she supposed, though she did not know how many might exist in the thinned crowd. The ijiraq outnumbered her, and they were fast. Speed would be necessary for another reason, she realised grimly, for it would doubtless not be long before the Custody were called to the disturbance -- and Nhysa had little desire to squander the rest of her evening filing reports.
“Are they not innocent also?” she asked. “Everything must eat.”
She rested her chin atop his head. A few sharp whips of darkness pushed fleeing guests from a path that might have trampled them on the floor, though cognisant of the danger she did not hold on to the power. The creatures did not seem concerned of the general populace, and the voracious channeling at the heart of the disturbance had faded also. Li was warm beneath her hands. Vaguely, she was aware of the thrumming of his heart. She sighed. “Yet you would not ask if it did not matter to you. And what is shadow without light, I suppose.”
Not that she sounded particularly convinced that their involvement was truly necessary, but apparently his own opinion made all the difference. Or maybe she simply liked the moniker he had chosen for her.
“You know their name. Do you know how they might be persuaded to move on?” She was a killer by trade and training, yet death was not her first instinct. At least not in these circumstances. She could incapacitate the food sources, she supposed, though she did not know how many might exist in the thinned crowd. The ijiraq outnumbered her, and they were fast. Speed would be necessary for another reason, she realised grimly, for it would doubtless not be long before the Custody were called to the disturbance -- and Nhysa had little desire to squander the rest of her evening filing reports.