main is @azems-familiar on tumblr. author uses they/them and doesn't know how to use this site.
The Exarch is different, of course. For the simple fact that Emet-Selch respects him as an enemy...there is little other reason for him to be here now, kneeling down next to the man to rest gentle fingers on the crystal.
"Let me see."
The Exarch is different, of course. For the simple fact that Emet-Selch respects him as an enemy...there is little other reason for him to be here now, kneeling down next to the man to rest gentle fingers on the crystal.
"Let me see."
[He is raising an eyebrow.]
[He is raising an eyebrow.]
He lets out a long sigh. "And yet...perhaps you are right," he allows, more out of a desire to spare Hythlodaeus the further worry than because he truly believes it. "I do dislike leaving a problem unsolved."
He lets out a long sigh. "And yet...perhaps you are right," he allows, more out of a desire to spare Hythlodaeus the further worry than because he truly believes it. "I do dislike leaving a problem unsolved."
"You flatter me," he says wearily. "Yet this turmoil is rooted not in the Underworld itself, but in the star's decay...and I can do little +
"You flatter me," he says wearily. "Yet this turmoil is rooted not in the Underworld itself, but in the star's decay...and I can do little +
They will face it, and fight it. They must.
"The aetherial sea is in disarray," +
They will face it, and fight it. They must.
"The aetherial sea is in disarray," +
Azem is still missing, and while +
Azem is still missing, and while +
If he's lucky, perhaps Hythlodaeus will be distracted by their breakfast...though Emet-Selch doubts whatever other torment he might conceive of would be any better.
If he's lucky, perhaps Hythlodaeus will be distracted by their breakfast...though Emet-Selch doubts whatever other torment he might conceive of would be any better.
He scrubs at his eyes with one hand and squints up at his partner, no small amount of suspicion +
He scrubs at his eyes with one hand and squints up at his partner, no small amount of suspicion +