It hits a lot of familiar notes, is all. It's a song and dance he's been through, that he's seen his brother go through. He's looked into his own reflection, seen his own eyes go black. This is what you're gonna become — the fear that followed, and the small voice in the back of his mind whispering that it's true.
Come to think of it, he probably wasn't much older than she is at the time.
But the thing is... fighting things that are supposed to be a myth is his day job. Impossible, evil things rolling in from another dimension? That's what he does. It's the same thing that's been hovering over the heads of the people he cares about practically his whole life. Apparently that applies here now, to them.
That's why he sounds a little mission-mode, a little like he's gearing up for a job when he finally speaks. )
Tell me about the Wild Hunt.
( Part one of working a job: understand what you're dealing with. Learn anything and everything you can about the lore. Then, learn how to kill it.
What are the odds any of this information will ever be relevant? That it'll ever come to pass in Abraxas?
Well, slim to none if you ask any sane person, but knowing his life? He gives it six months and a Tuesday. )
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It hits a lot of familiar notes, is all. It's a song and dance he's been through, that he's seen his brother go through. He's looked into his own reflection, seen his own eyes go black. This is what you're gonna become — the fear that followed, and the small voice in the back of his mind whispering that it's true.
Come to think of it, he probably wasn't much older than she is at the time.
But the thing is... fighting things that are supposed to be a myth is his day job. Impossible, evil things rolling in from another dimension? That's what he does. It's the same thing that's been hovering over the heads of the people he cares about practically his whole life. Apparently that applies here now, to them.
That's why he sounds a little mission-mode, a little like he's gearing up for a job when he finally speaks. )
Tell me about the Wild Hunt.
( Part one of working a job: understand what you're dealing with. Learn anything and everything you can about the lore. Then, learn how to kill it.
What are the odds any of this information will ever be relevant? That it'll ever come to pass in Abraxas?
Well, slim to none if you ask any sane person, but knowing his life? He gives it six months and a Tuesday. )