em || enya 💥 + kenji 🌫 11/8/2024 1:25 PM
1:25 PM
Step after step, aimlessly moving, Kenji hears them before he sees them. "Carrion?" He calls, voice overwritten with something rough, ancient, bone-dry. It's still Kenji, but unfamiliar. Smoke curls around them, pitch-black streaked with gold, and making it's best attempt to shield any sand that it can--not much, but it helps.
"Can you hear me?" @Saj | Gale🌪+Carrion🍄
Saj | Gale🌪+Carrion🍄 11/8/2024 1:39 PM
Carrion barely hears him over the pain pinpricking and burning all throughout his body- but he does hear him. Rough and strange, but still Kenji.
Their survival instincts scream to push him away and run,
But deep inside, behind his barricades and safeguards, behind the fronts he puts up and forced smiles, is a lonely child.
The same that trusted Kenji when they met, the same that cried for him as he fell.
The same that reaches out his hand for him, shaking. ”h-hhelp-“
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em || enya 💥 + kenji 🌫 11/8/2024 3:36 PM
Kenji reaches out for Carrion's hand, comfortingly, as he crouches behind him. A shadow stretches out over the two of them--leathery wings, unfolding clumsily with an almost crunch-like sound as they escape from his back--to block the sun. Thin stands of gold crisscross the wings like chains as more blackened crystal crumbles out of his chest and mixes with the sand.
Still, though, his voice is riddled with a dull background of echo that warps it into sounding calmer than it should be. "I got you, buddy. Just hang on, okay?" @Saj | Gale🌪+Carrion🍄 (edited)
Saj | Gale🌪+Carrion🍄 11/8/2024 7:28 PM
Carrion grabs his hand tightly, holding him like a lifeline.
Kenji had died, he felt it happen, did his power keep him alive somehow?
Whatever the reason, Carrion couldn’t care less. He was just happy Kenji was here.
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em || enya 💥 + kenji 🌫 11/8/2024 7:42 PM
Kenji's hand is colder than before. His wings, new and flat as they are, falter in the continuous wind and sand, and he grits his teeth in dismay as he struggles to keep them shielded.
The voice rippling through his head makes him wince, mind rebelling instinctively against the intrusion, but the compulsion isn't as easy to get rid of. Before it can pull him away Kenji carefully scoops Carrion up in his arms, keeping his wings wrapped around them both. Blind trust had never gotten him anywhere---but it's a risk he's not able to reject. @Saj | Gale🌪+Carrion🍄 (move to shelter?)
Saj | Gale🌪+Carrion🍄 11/8/2024 9:47 PM
Carrion winces at the voice, his hold turning to a vice grip.
They startle as Kenji scoops him up, but he gives no protest.
..It’s almost comforting.
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1Continued in: windswept shelter