[ What could he say to that? Nothing. Quite certainly nothing, so stunned does that leave him. And if he could look at her it would be with some sort of horrified awe, something written instead in how slack his expression goes and his chin jerks up, briefly ignoring his own pain. ]
Lux.. [ He knew even before that she had some kind of ability, something that seemed kind of like what he understood of sorcery or magic. Maybe. Some extra power like that. But to say that...
She wasn't human?
She'll find his hand suddenly quite easy to pull aside then, too stunned to even protest more than he's actually acquiescing.
And if she pulls his hand back even a little, there's a small spatter across his cheekbone that's immediately obvious. Obvious in how the skin seems to have burned away as if by acid and revealed a glimmer of bone. As for what further he was trying to keep hidden, the spray of black blood that caught him straight across the eyes...
I have no idea if I should slap a mild cw: gore on this but... /stares into distance
[ What could he say to that? Nothing. Quite certainly nothing, so stunned does that leave him. And if he could look at her it would be with some sort of horrified awe, something written instead in how slack his expression goes and his chin jerks up, briefly ignoring his own pain. ]
Lux.. [ He knew even before that she had some kind of ability, something that seemed kind of like what he understood of sorcery or magic. Maybe. Some extra power like that. But to say that...
She wasn't human?
She'll find his hand suddenly quite easy to pull aside then, too stunned to even protest more than he's actually acquiescing.
And if she pulls his hand back even a little, there's a small spatter across his cheekbone that's immediately obvious. Obvious in how the skin seems to have burned away as if by acid and revealed a glimmer of bone. As for what further he was trying to keep hidden, the spray of black blood that caught him straight across the eyes...
It's bad. ]