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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2025 5:18 pm
s**t, Eles mouthed with a growing sense of urgency. He'd watched the spasm, the resultant bonelessness, and now the boy wasn't even opening his eyes. Just pointing at his lips like —
He looked up to Ilmari, hands aflutter with pressing concerns. Did I ******** him up? Was I supposed to put the starseed in his mouth???
The look on his face belied the endless stream of invective that played on a loop in his head.
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2025 5:19 pm
As the kept boy returned the starseed to its person, Ilmari couldn’t help but watch, more openly curious than he’d allowed himself to be so far. However, as he watched this all play out, he wrinkled his nose. Was this really what happened, whenever he lost a fight and had to surrender a starseed that he’d stolen fair and square? Felt strange, people not immediately returning to normal after having their souls put back in.…… Then again, maybe this was all on the Mirror senshi and whatever floppy, dramatic muchness he thought he was doing?
“I don’t think you ******** him up, no?” Ilmari wished he could have sounded more certain of himself in this answer. Wished he could have looked less clueless as he watched the kept boy’s hands, and then as he slowly shook his head at the boy himself. For the sake of practice, though, Ilmari resumed signing along as he spoke, now that he didn’t need to worry about a starseed. “I’m not entirely certain about this, though? I don’t normally put them back after I take them, you know? And if I mess up and lose one, the Order senshi or Knight who took it from me typically makes me clear out before they put the starseed back.
“Still……” He hmmm’ed, briefly peering back down at the Mirror senshi. “Starseeds come out of the chest, so it makes sense that they’d return there?”
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2025 5:21 pm
Was it eavesdropping if they knew you were there? Head becoming more and more clear, Hybris’s next order of action was to flip Eles off. Making him eat his own starseed was, or at least should be, against the Chaos Geneva Convention between factions. This was bullying him. But also, he felt very comfortable and satisfied hearing that the corrupted senshi was being regularly bullied by knights and senshi into letting go of his gathered starseeds. It was probably pretty funny to watch, and the blonde had features that he’d bet looked amazing once he was forced to drop the professionalism he’d been trying to show them tonight.
With an increased awareness of his body, it seemed he’d swooned onto Eles lap. Good. The senshi…on the other side? Quite nice. Blinking his eyes open, Hybris saw two faces peering down at him, one panicked and the other looking like he was a science experiment.
“Did I die?”
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2025 5:22 pm
Oh, Eles mouthed in response to the goth cheerleader. Then he signed, That's annoying.
Must've sucked to have been robbed of whatever he pulled out of someone, then shooed off out of some misguided propriety about putting a starseed back in someone's chest. What if that someone was an ally? Wouldn't Hole-in-the-Head need to know how to put it back? What gatekeeping.
But it was heartening, if not all that reassuring, that he probably didn't ******** up Hybris any more than the boy already was. And it was mollifying to hear that Eles's assumed course of action was logical.
The best balm for his worry came from Hybris himself, when a one-finger salute was given to Eles like a gift. Heaving a sigh of relief, he signed the good news back to Goth Cheerleader. He's fine. For good measure, Eles patted the fainting boy's cheek.
Definitely, Eles signed back to the boy in his lap, irrespective of the truth. But you're fine now. Make it up to you when we get back.
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