[ Help him? That sure as hell isn't what it had looked like to Steve, and yet he can't expect that this kid (Wilhelm, he's heard others call him) is entirely in his right mind. None of them have been since the ritual. He's felt the effects himself, with the dreams he's been having and the way that his temper's been on a hair-trigger.
But Steve is nothing if not stubborn, and at least some of the time, he can separate his own thoughts and desires from what the ascension is doing to him. Enough that he'd known he needed to stop Wilhelm in his tracks.
It's not hard for him to pull the kid back from the native he'd ambushed, drawing him a few feet away to try and narrow his focus. ]
Didn't really look like that from where I was standing.
[ Wilhelm is one of the kids he'd been most worried about at the start of all this. He'd been wide-eyed and panicked, as much as he might have tried to hide it under his complaints about their food offerings. Is it any surprise that he's splintering now that they've been tangibly altered by the acolytes? Steve's showing signs of it too, open wounds scattered on his neck, his forearms, with more likely hidden under his stained clothing. ]
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But Steve is nothing if not stubborn, and at least some of the time, he can separate his own thoughts and desires from what the ascension is doing to him. Enough that he'd known he needed to stop Wilhelm in his tracks.
It's not hard for him to pull the kid back from the native he'd ambushed, drawing him a few feet away to try and narrow his focus. ]
Didn't really look like that from where I was standing.
[ Wilhelm is one of the kids he'd been most worried about at the start of all this. He'd been wide-eyed and panicked, as much as he might have tried to hide it under his complaints about their food offerings. Is it any surprise that he's splintering now that they've been tangibly altered by the acolytes? Steve's showing signs of it too, open wounds scattered on his neck, his forearms, with more likely hidden under his stained clothing. ]
Wanna enlighten me?