[Isaac’s dig strikes a chord, and Hector’s heart beats harder with fury. A worthless fuck, huh?
He speeds up so that Isaac will have to work to keep the pace. Let him learn his stubbornness has a price.]
You survived because no one cared enough to—
[He turns when he realizes Isaac has gone silent. Somehow, he feels Isaac’s collapse just as surely as he sees it, in the churning of his stomach and the sinking in his chest.
For one brief, panicked motion, Hector’s anger wins out, and he thinks, ‘I’ll leave you there and good riddance.’
He’s at Isaac’s side within the next heartbeat.]
Damn you, Isaac. [He repeats. Abel will never listen to Hector’s orders, not even to save his master, and Isaac can’t or won’t ask god his demon’s help either, so Hector curses him again as he stoops to lift the deceptively heavy frame of his fellow forgemaster.]
Be still, or it’s more than just our lives you’ll be putting at stake. [He growls as he hoists Isaac into his arms, even though he’s not sure if Isaac is even conscious to hear them. There’s a network of caves not far from here; they’ll be as good a place as any to rest briefly and see to this wound of Isaac’s, if the man will just let Hector get them there.]
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He speeds up so that Isaac will have to work to keep the pace. Let him learn his stubbornness has a price.]
You survived because no one cared enough to—
[He turns when he realizes Isaac has gone silent. Somehow, he feels Isaac’s collapse just as surely as he sees it, in the churning of his stomach and the sinking in his chest.
For one brief, panicked motion, Hector’s anger wins out, and he thinks, ‘I’ll leave you there and good riddance.’
He’s at Isaac’s side within the next heartbeat.]
Damn you, Isaac. [He repeats. Abel will never listen to Hector’s orders, not even to save his master, and Isaac can’t or won’t ask god his demon’s help either, so Hector curses him again as he stoops to lift the deceptively heavy frame of his fellow forgemaster.]
Be still, or it’s more than just our lives you’ll be putting at stake. [He growls as he hoists Isaac into his arms, even though he’s not sure if Isaac is even conscious to hear them. There’s a network of caves not far from here; they’ll be as good a place as any to rest briefly and see to this wound of Isaac’s, if the man will just let Hector get them there.]