Arrow Lake one breath, it'll just break

"devils are for heathens and pagans. i serve what i can see. ramesses is a man and nothing more."

germanicus was also a man and therefore cultivated refusal of his flaws. one such was a flickering pride and wounded by arsenio it raised head with gritted teeth and snapped proverbial jaws at meadow who had indeed proven to be some sort of catalyst in the end.

"these intricate details are of use in the goal that has always been foremost to me. you have already laid epoch open to his eye because you did not know who he was." she had already been a pretty pawn for arsenio had not seen fit to warn her. "now you withhold any indication that he means to move against you and therefore mereo. despite what might have been said, meadow," germanicus murmured, taking a single step forward to tangle hard sungold with the deep amber of her open gaze, "do not make the mistake of believing i would allow that man advance in any part of these mountains without a swift and violent answer."

his heart galloped in hard dust that ended at the blustering bloom of a visceral need to prove himself and the passion that burnt in his belly.