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⛧ Aʟʟᴇɴ "ɴᴏᴛ ᴀ ᴘʀɪᴇsᴛ" Wᴀʟᴋᴇʀ ★ ([personal profile] likethelight) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-04-10 03:05 pm (UTC)

[ He sees it more clearly now, yes. And hears it, the soul. Right as he's plummeting towards it, and it's why he twists in midair to grasp at his left wrist with his right instead, the whole of the arm glowing --

-- and riding a giant luminescent broadsword down instead, cleaving through its arm that way. As long as he is and almost as broad, it slams down into the ground with a weight that seems more than his own light frame. It's a human beast, he realizes after all, breath coming with a slight puff as he rounds back around to meet what will surely be an incoming attack. Because of that, because he doesn't understand fully yet -- he can't risk what his claws might do to the human body still within somewhere...

The sword, after all, can only cut that which is "evil"; corruption. Not the human part.

Unfortunately, because he adjusted for his sword last minute and attacked so heavily with it, because he's now left one-armed, as discernable from how his cloak has draped flatly along his left shoulder now, obscuring it... he fails to bring his sword fully around in time to use it as a shield. It impacts his chest just below that mask, wet and solid, and he's staggered with a sharp and pained inhalation. Shit.

Which is to say no, he hasn't noticed the horror that is the parasitic, maggot-like worms dripping from it now. ]

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