[There's no feeling like being truly and utterly helpless to protect oneself and one's companion. L knows what it's like; he'd watched Watari fall, and then himself fallen, knowing that he would, knowing that there was nothing he could do.
Iskierka still has something she can do, and as he curls more tightly in her wings and the chewing gets louder, she does it, increasing in mass and turning a lettuce leaf into a banquet for the ravenous locusts. Iskierka's call thrums through his chest, and something else connects there, rushing, charging. Lycka breaks through whatever barrier had separated them before, nudging unsqueamishly through Iskierka's tattered remains and retrieving her dreamer.
cw: character death by insect
Iskierka still has something she can do, and as he curls more tightly in her wings and the chewing gets louder, she does it, increasing in mass and turning a lettuce leaf into a banquet for the ravenous locusts. Iskierka's call thrums through his chest, and something else connects there, rushing, charging. Lycka breaks through whatever barrier had separated them before, nudging unsqueamishly through Iskierka's tattered remains and retrieving her dreamer.
He clings, and doesn't stop clinging.]