beeroclock: (the dog days are done)
clawed headmaster ([personal profile] beeroclock) wrote2035-04-27 05:59 am

aw, cripes.

OPEN POST
vakna: (03)

[personal profile] vakna 2018-05-19 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Some, he says. He suffers and exacts violence with the neutrality of professional soldier; it is all in a day's work for the Wolverine, but the sensation of pain is always new. The girl looks at him askance as if it might help her differentiate his blood from that of his victims. When a familiar feeling wells up in her stomach she immediately looks away. The sandwiches are reserved for his appetites — not hers. Had he amenities a shower would resolve Eli's dilemma ... at the steep price of so much blood emptied nonchalantly down the drain. Forever gone. The very thought is dizzying.

Should she leave? Eli sits beside him and busies herself by scratching at a fleck of paint on the floor. ]


Doesn't it hurt...? I could bandage you up. [ She stops fiddling to half-glance his way. ] Or something.
vakna: (09)

Not at all, it might help them open up

[personal profile] vakna 2018-05-21 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He heals too. They die a thousand times. ]

Mm.

[ An affirmative hum is the extent of her reply. He is broaching a delicate subject in the sense that her hunger is a precursor to homicide; she violates the law to eat — therefore he is inquiring into a crime. Is his job not to punish villainy? Yet he expresses concern. Eli lingers, then speaks the truth: ]

Three days ago.

[ Had it been longer her relative composure before the bloodsoaked Avenger would not be possible; even now the temptation is too great for anything but demure glances from his guest. She can neither look at him, or away from him, for long. Exquisite torment.

Lifting her arm, Eli blindly presses the tip of her index finger to a spot of red on his collarbone, then pops the digit between her lips. She manages to joke: ]


Like this, you're like honey to me.