( It isn't something Peter expects to hear. That someone's glad to have met him — it catches him off-guard again, but only for a moment or two. Because the sincerity's easy to respond to, and honestly. His smile is shy and genuine, and he feels it brightening up around the edges. There's a lot that's sad to everything that's been said. A lot that's weird and sad and weighty.
But it feels a lot less heavy when you talk to someone who understands. And despite having more experience with all of this than Peter does, there's the fact Mob's just a kid. There's something to Peter that wants to... help him. Be there for him. Step up closer to a place he often seems to avoid when it comes to people around Mob's age, because getting close to people like that.... hurts. He'll always think of Charlie. )
I'm glad I met you too, dude.
( But everything changes then, so fast that Peter couldn't attempt to prepare for it, or warn the other boy. Peter's gone, and something else stares with its rippling throat and black eyes. Stares, and listens, not terribly outright aggressive, but certainly on-guard. It isn't the first time Paimon's been lowkey (highkey) threatened by an exorcist's presence, but the demon's so recently dealt with some fresh exorcism trauma, thanks to the lost ghost of a woman who found her way into Peter and had to be forced out. The experience was.... upsetting to the demon. )
THERE IS NO CHOICE WHAT HAS BEEN DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE IN THIS PLACE
( The ritual to "unlock" him is specific and intensive and requires mutilating and permanently killing his current host. In this place where death can't be sustained... it's impossible, so far as he knows. And he doesn't like the thought of someone trying, eyeing the boy sharply. )
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But it feels a lot less heavy when you talk to someone who understands. And despite having more experience with all of this than Peter does, there's the fact Mob's just a kid. There's something to Peter that wants to... help him. Be there for him. Step up closer to a place he often seems to avoid when it comes to people around Mob's age, because getting close to people like that.... hurts. He'll always think of Charlie. )
I'm glad I met you too, dude.
( But everything changes then, so fast that Peter couldn't attempt to prepare for it, or warn the other boy. Peter's gone, and something else stares with its rippling throat and black eyes. Stares, and listens, not terribly outright aggressive, but certainly on-guard. It isn't the first time Paimon's been lowkey (highkey) threatened by an exorcist's presence, but the demon's so recently dealt with some fresh exorcism trauma, thanks to the lost ghost of a woman who found her way into Peter and had to be forced out. The experience was.... upsetting to the demon. )
THERE IS NO CHOICE
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE IN THIS PLACE
( The ritual to "unlock" him is specific and intensive and requires mutilating and permanently killing his current host. In this place where death can't be sustained... it's impossible, so far as he knows. And he doesn't like the thought of someone trying, eyeing the boy sharply. )
IT MUST NOT BE ATTEMPTED