[Reasonable words, although he frowns at the implication that he might attack the 'fae' across from them — against the boiling thoughts in his mind that goad him to do it on principle. He knows he could take the lantern without it coming to violence, unless the fae retaliated.
Sasuke closes his mouth and remains resolutely silent as Puck settles back on the trunk of the tree and begins to... tell them a story.
A story about a young woman who, after becoming hopelessly lost in the woods, has a feeling that someone is following her. Sasuke is on-edge listening; he moves closer, but he doesn't take a seat near the fae. For days, the woman in the story goes on with that feeling of being stalked, Puck's lyrical storytelling enough to make the woods around them seem just as dark and threatening... Until one afternoon, she encounters it. A too tall, dark man with many snaking limbs and a blank white face.
Sasuke's senses sharpen. He whirls to the right, staring into the perimeter of darkness with glowing, mismatched eyes.] ... This is a trick, [murmured to Aspen under his breath.] There's someone else here.
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Sasuke closes his mouth and remains resolutely silent as Puck settles back on the trunk of the tree and begins to... tell them a story.
A story about a young woman who, after becoming hopelessly lost in the woods, has a feeling that someone is following her. Sasuke is on-edge listening; he moves closer, but he doesn't take a seat near the fae. For days, the woman in the story goes on with that feeling of being stalked, Puck's lyrical storytelling enough to make the woods around them seem just as dark and threatening... Until one afternoon, she encounters it. A too tall, dark man with many snaking limbs and a blank white face.
Sasuke's senses sharpen. He whirls to the right, staring into the perimeter of darkness with glowing, mismatched eyes.] ... This is a trick, [murmured to Aspen under his breath.] There's someone else here.