( He manages, by the grace of God, not to make any smart-ass comments when Jaskier yelps and reflex-plants the severed arm. It helps that this situation's so grim, that he feels an unpleasant thread of discomfort unfurling in his belly the longer he looks at this thing and sees a victim rather than a monster. Now that it isn't attacking, now that it's still rather than threatening, it's hard to miss the little details.
The bolts driven into flesh. The hooks and wires embedded into skin. The iron bands fixed into place.
He thinks of the rack. He thinks of his time on it. He thinks of his time off of it even more, staring down at things who didn't look entirely so different from this well before he was done with them.
He peels himself up and away from the corpse abruptly, leaving his spot and leaving the thought in the same motion, forcing it down and steering his eyes back toward Jaskier. )
Well, Pisstopher Columbus, you discovered it, technically. That means you get to name it.
( It's an even more apt metaphor if you consider the fact that Christopher Columbus didn't actually discover shit and that monster clearly existed well before either of the three of them stumbled across it. Still, it needs a name, so they know what to refer to it as later — something that isn't screwed up mechanical clockwork torture victim, because they don't have that kinda time. )
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The bolts driven into flesh. The hooks and wires embedded into skin. The iron bands fixed into place.
He thinks of the rack. He thinks of his time on it. He thinks of his time off of it even more, staring down at things who didn't look entirely so different from this well before he was done with them.
He peels himself up and away from the corpse abruptly, leaving his spot and leaving the thought in the same motion, forcing it down and steering his eyes back toward Jaskier. )
Well, Pisstopher Columbus, you discovered it, technically. That means you get to name it.
( It's an even more apt metaphor if you consider the fact that Christopher Columbus didn't actually discover shit and that monster clearly existed well before either of the three of them stumbled across it. Still, it needs a name, so they know what to refer to it as later — something that isn't screwed up mechanical clockwork torture victim, because they don't have that kinda time. )