Briefly, Gen's thoughts go back to what little fragments he's heard of Emet-Selch's life before Horos. Mentions of lost soldiers, oblique references to fights lost in the past, and the man's steadfast determination to see the Regent's mission through. -- no, his own mission through, regardless of how it had aligned with the Regent's specific plans. He'd always wondered somewhere at the very back of his mind what exactly would drive someone seemingly so listless and apathetic to fixate on such a grand goal, but ...
actually being made to relive even a fragment of that answer in this fashion is jarring.
His heart's already beating fast in his ears, and his pulse skips unsteadily when he feels Emet-Selch's hand alight upon his shoulder. It's hard to tell whether the prickle through his chest is a buzz of relief upon being offered any sort of comfort amidst this chaos, or a sense of dread on knowing that Emet-Selch has no plans of pulling out of this memory.
"You're staying here?" His voice emerges a touch hoarse. For all his arrogant bluster, Gen is ultimately a teenager; without thinking, he ends up pulling closer to Emet-Selch, reflexively seeking that protection offered to him even as his voice rises incredulously. "You're staying here, against that thing? The hell do you think you can even do?!"
no subject
actually being made to relive even a fragment of that answer in this fashion is jarring.
His heart's already beating fast in his ears, and his pulse skips unsteadily when he feels Emet-Selch's hand alight upon his shoulder. It's hard to tell whether the prickle through his chest is a buzz of relief upon being offered any sort of comfort amidst this chaos, or a sense of dread on knowing that Emet-Selch has no plans of pulling out of this memory.
"You're staying here?" His voice emerges a touch hoarse. For all his arrogant bluster, Gen is ultimately a teenager; without thinking, he ends up pulling closer to Emet-Selch, reflexively seeking that protection offered to him even as his voice rises incredulously. "You're staying here, against that thing? The hell do you think you can even do?!"