( Speculative hum, its own sort of... underlying truth being a command for those close enough to hear to turn away. The balance here is rarely in his favour, and he doesn't mistake actions taken as gratitude from the angry and the frightened.
Lifetimes have taught him that much. )
Some will. I can play to soothe after, but if they brush up closer to Anurr's winds...
( He allows that statement to trail off, letting them both settle into the knowledge of whose great power will subsume and consume, and whose is used as negotiation more than it is command. The dead don't process emotion the same ways as the living, not even the intelligent dead, but without time and resources to send them truly to rest, away from this nest of death turned necrotic in the heart of a once living city, decaying in the way of a tree fallen and infested by fungal spores and termites, he must pay close heed to what allowances and demands he makes of himself.
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Mmm.
( Speculative hum, its own sort of... underlying truth being a command for those close enough to hear to turn away. The balance here is rarely in his favour, and he doesn't mistake actions taken as gratitude from the angry and the frightened.
Lifetimes have taught him that much. )
Some will. I can play to soothe after, but if they brush up closer to Anurr's winds...
( He allows that statement to trail off, letting them both settle into the knowledge of whose great power will subsume and consume, and whose is used as negotiation more than it is command. The dead don't process emotion the same ways as the living, not even the intelligent dead, but without time and resources to send them truly to rest, away from this nest of death turned necrotic in the heart of a once living city, decaying in the way of a tree fallen and infested by fungal spores and termites, he must pay close heed to what allowances and demands he makes of himself.
Of others. )