( a naturally bad attitude combined with the experience of a drowned rat did make for bad first impressions, to be sure.
she follows the gesture upwards, until her attention the source of his fascination and her own bind sputters.
it's a spider.
color drains from her face. the crunch of spider sacs underfoot is a sudden half-memory enough to make her skin crawl, enough to snap her full gaze to henry's face as though expecting something terrible to happen. some revelation to shift in the blink of an eye, for verdant green to change to viscous red and for a hand too long-limbed to reach for her, for her to —
but no such thing happens, and instead, she finds herself to have stared a few moments too long before needing to peel back to look at the web above them, some valiant effort of playing it off, blurting out the first thing that comes to mind: ) Does she bite?
( another pause, nose wrinkling. ) And I'm new, yeah. Like, a few hours new.
Do we — need to do that? Bring their gods offerings when they do? ( they literally kidnapped them from another world, her raised brows seem to say. if that's even real and true. )
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she follows the gesture upwards, until her attention the source of his fascination and her own bind sputters.
it's a spider.
color drains from her face. the crunch of spider sacs underfoot is a sudden half-memory enough to make her skin crawl, enough to snap her full gaze to henry's face as though expecting something terrible to happen. some revelation to shift in the blink of an eye, for verdant green to change to viscous red and for a hand too long-limbed to reach for her, for her to —
but no such thing happens, and instead, she finds herself to have stared a few moments too long before needing to peel back to look at the web above them, some valiant effort of playing it off, blurting out the first thing that comes to mind: ) Does she bite?
( another pause, nose wrinkling. ) And I'm new, yeah. Like, a few hours new.
Do we — need to do that? Bring their gods offerings when they do? ( they literally kidnapped them from another world, her raised brows seem to say. if that's even real and true. )