08-15-2020, 05:23 PM
Li peeled away. There was hunger left in Nhysa’s expression, unabashed by the appetite. A sly smile curved her lips, but she let him pull her by the hand and followed down to the office. Once there her attention roamed the walls, but it was inevitably the horned head of the creature upon which her focus landed. A brow rose. Nhysa saw plenty others didn’t, including the being that slunk in her own shadow, but nearly all of them were things insubstantial. Even the monster last night had been a thing of mist, and had shattered into slivers upon its death.
She laughed dismissively at the offer. Nhysa liked children, though they were not always so sure about her in turn. But much like she went to the Almaz to compete and not to observe, she had little interest in watching young ones flailing about in their lessons. She turned her gaze to Li, reaching to pull her hair into a knot atop her head, apart from the thick line hanging above her eyes. She knew what he had been before he had become one of the monsters his people hunted; understood that it was a corpse, not an interesting interior decor choice. “What is it?”
She laughed dismissively at the offer. Nhysa liked children, though they were not always so sure about her in turn. But much like she went to the Almaz to compete and not to observe, she had little interest in watching young ones flailing about in their lessons. She turned her gaze to Li, reaching to pull her hair into a knot atop her head, apart from the thick line hanging above her eyes. She knew what he had been before he had become one of the monsters his people hunted; understood that it was a corpse, not an interesting interior decor choice. “What is it?”
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