[Frozen where he stands at the sight of the body, Vakama starts as Ashley grabs ahold of him and tugs, an active effort to try and get them both out of the way.
Though it is close enough to feel the air crackle in its wake, Ashley is successful - they both tumble clumsily against the rocks soaked with the salt of the sea, right before the dark appendage crashes fully into the enormous sea wall with a thunderous boom, a rain of rock and mud collapsing into the waves below as it withdraws.
It's hard to see if Vakama has entirely registered Ashley at first. He trembles as he tries to push himself up, eyes still stuck on the maskless body lying broken and barely visible in the darkness.
//a body left laid out in the snow, glasses cracked and discarded, skin paling, blood soaking down and already going cold from something so easily ripped off and thrown aside---
"That was meant for me."
Murderer.
His breath catches.]
I... That wasn't...
[The rock starts to dissolve into itself, a dizzied run of spiraling tunnels. The bodies there, yet unreachable, slowly growing distant, like a brand to the mind fading to a horrific scar.
cw: mention of decapitation
Though it is close enough to feel the air crackle in its wake, Ashley is successful - they both tumble clumsily against the rocks soaked with the salt of the sea, right before the dark appendage crashes fully into the enormous sea wall with a thunderous boom, a rain of rock and mud collapsing into the waves below as it withdraws.
It's hard to see if Vakama has entirely registered Ashley at first. He trembles as he tries to push himself up, eyes still stuck on the maskless body lying broken and barely visible in the darkness.
//a body left laid out in the snow, glasses cracked and discarded, skin paling, blood soaking down and already going cold from something so easily ripped off and thrown aside---
"That was meant for me."
Murderer.
His breath catches.]
I... That wasn't...
[The rock starts to dissolve into itself, a dizzied run of spiraling tunnels. The bodies there, yet unreachable, slowly growing distant, like a brand to the mind fading to a horrific scar.
You fail him more if you continue to refuse.]