It worked, in hand with Fedyor's yet unbroken confidence. Ah to be young and self assured again. It had almost been too long since he'd felt that feeling, seen people largely untouched by Mathis's bullshit, full and whole in their stable idea of Self.
"Yeah," he continued with a short nod, eyes already busy looking for something else. "Normally, they're about everyone I know here trapped in these buildings, burnin' alive and screamin' out for me. Tonight was.." He shook his head sharply. "Different. Saw the people that used to live here. Mid 1970's if I had to guess by the black tie attire. Cuttin' themselves, offerin' up a spiral of their blood.. This we offer in humility and fear." The end was dry and bitterly sardonic. Mathis could have his humility when she pried it from his cold dead hands.
Fear, however, was a different story.
"Do you have him? Kirigan? Did he get away from the fire?" Raylan might not be what one would call a 'friend' of Kirigan's, but such petty luxurious titles didn't have much of a place here in Mathis, not when they were negitive.
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It worked, in hand with Fedyor's yet unbroken confidence. Ah to be young and self assured again. It had almost been too long since he'd felt that feeling, seen people largely untouched by Mathis's bullshit, full and whole in their stable idea of Self.
"Yeah," he continued with a short nod, eyes already busy looking for something else. "Normally, they're about everyone I know here trapped in these buildings, burnin' alive and screamin' out for me. Tonight was.." He shook his head sharply. "Different. Saw the people that used to live here. Mid 1970's if I had to guess by the black tie attire. Cuttin' themselves, offerin' up a spiral of their blood.. This we offer in humility and fear." The end was dry and bitterly sardonic. Mathis could have his humility when she pried it from his cold dead hands.
Fear, however, was a different story.
"Do you have him? Kirigan? Did he get away from the fire?" Raylan might not be what one would call a 'friend' of Kirigan's, but such petty luxurious titles didn't have much of a place here in Mathis, not when they were negitive.