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Only a
MONSTER could love a man like Cillian.[break][break]
How fortunate he was, then, to have found one.[break][break]
The chain had not snapped before, when Temp had pilfered the Nihilego egg. No. It is not until the very moment the word
monster leaves
howard slayte's lips that the chain holding back the Beast breaks.[break][break]
Kanto sees the living shadow pause in his assault. A memory struggles to surface.[break][break]
A hand rests on a shoulder made of shadow, of void.[break][break]
That same hand has rubbed Cillian's back when he was sick. Held his hand while he cried. Bore a ring that announced their matrimony to the world. And that hand meets no resistance from the demon it entreats.[break][break]
Claws retract from Howard's throat, but it is no mercy.[break][break]
Void-lit eyes watch as Temp's human hands fit the groves left by claws and
crush.[break][break]
He laughs. It is a low, terrible sound that echoes in distortion. Yet that laugh, that spark of genuine delight, is enough to slice through the darkness. To touch the heart of the man beneath the monster, and return clarity to him in the shine of golden eyes.[break][break]
Cillian blinks as though waking from a daydream.[break][break]
The
SHADOW HOLD stops Howard from slipping his fate, from fighting back. Temp could kill him, and they'd be rid of another potentially defective cog in Rocket's machine. But for all its risk of damage, that cog increased the efficiency of that machine.[break][break]
"He has had enough, I think."[break][break]
SHADOWS retract from Howard to embrace Temp in their umbral
HOLD. They coax him back from the brink, firm and insistent but not harmful, as Cillian takes a step toward his would-be prey.[break][break]
"You cannot outrun Rocket, howard slayte. You should not have tried."[break][break]
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PROMPTS: 01, 26, 32, 38[break]
Shadow moves used: 3/3[attr="class","pkmn"][break]
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