The lioness looks at her. As certain entertainment media giants have taught us, the simulacrum of photorealistic lions aren't very expressive; even so, this one is impressively blank faced.
"If he was gone, I would be too. That's how this works." There are rules to these things. That's as true here as it is anywhere else. It has to be. "Without a master, there is nothing legt to bind me here."
That is true. Some might call it a guiding principle. Those days spent in the Gallows dungeon had him briefly considering some morbid alternative, but the moment he'd been wrenched free of it via the power of the summons, he'd dismissed the thought out of hand as paranoia.
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Date: 2019-08-14 04:38 am (UTC)"If he was gone, I would be too. That's how this works." There are rules to these things. That's as true here as it is anywhere else. It has to be. "Without a master, there is nothing legt to bind me here."
That is true. Some might call it a guiding principle. Those days spent in the Gallows dungeon had him briefly considering some morbid alternative, but the moment he'd been wrenched free of it via the power of the summons, he'd dismissed the thought out of hand as paranoia.