12-05-2024, 11:31 PM
The soft shiver against skin told him that his dark flower was reaching for her own inner light, though it was more like the darkness folded in around them. It was oddly eerie and comforting all at the same time. The explanation made sense, why would you want someone who wasn't good at their job and what better way then to send one of your best after them. And a game was always fun, they weren't always about fighting each other or besting the other, no sometimes the games were against others -- and still all the fun.
She was close, and she was his. It took a moment of calm, the perfect incantation, the complete surrender to his own self to wrestle with the god like power he contained. It was through self control that he'd mastered his sickness, and it was through patience and clarity that he maintained it. He'd watched the boy in the dojo weild the power with fluid and grace and such violence. And it came at his whim. It wasn't so for Li. But in that moment, holding his dark flower against him while she was about to toy with her prey to send a test and get the results her employer wanted he felt the harsh reality of his gift pulsing in his grasp. Just waiting to be weilded and used and all lost in his Darkness -- her darkness.
Li hummed softly in her ear and smiled. "That might be most tempting." He squeezed her tight with both hands and caressed her check with a brush of air. A little notice that he too weiled their ancient dark arts and he was willing to play a little with her mouse.
She was close, and she was his. It took a moment of calm, the perfect incantation, the complete surrender to his own self to wrestle with the god like power he contained. It was through self control that he'd mastered his sickness, and it was through patience and clarity that he maintained it. He'd watched the boy in the dojo weild the power with fluid and grace and such violence. And it came at his whim. It wasn't so for Li. But in that moment, holding his dark flower against him while she was about to toy with her prey to send a test and get the results her employer wanted he felt the harsh reality of his gift pulsing in his grasp. Just waiting to be weilded and used and all lost in his Darkness -- her darkness.
Li hummed softly in her ear and smiled. "That might be most tempting." He squeezed her tight with both hands and caressed her check with a brush of air. A little notice that he too weiled their ancient dark arts and he was willing to play a little with her mouse.
“What you must do," said Monkey, "is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.”