"That will change..." Ankari mutters. He's sure the Duchess will take notice of Khoriya eventually. There's no way the wolf will be able to keep his head down. Ankari will need to keep an eye on him, do what he can to take responsibility for this beast only he knows anything about.
His hand reaches to his own eye at the mention. He looks briefly surprised, tracing the edge of the porcelain where blood and honey clung. What is this-? He taps it to his tongue and immediately recoils from the shock of sweetness, spitting it aside again. The tinny taste of blood didn't bother him, but why sappy sugar-? His nail moves to where his eye should be and tap on the forever stuck open pupil, clicking off of it like a porcelain shell.
"T-th, th.... monster," he says with distant sadness, realizing he's transformed in some part, "in this place, if you cannot indulge in your lusts for sex and violence... you transform into a monster." Then, just to be cruel, he adds...
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His hand reaches to his own eye at the mention. He looks briefly surprised, tracing the edge of the porcelain where blood and honey clung. What is this-? He taps it to his tongue and immediately recoils from the shock of sweetness, spitting it aside again. The tinny taste of blood didn't bother him, but why sappy sugar-? His nail moves to where his eye should be and tap on the forever stuck open pupil, clicking off of it like a porcelain shell.
"T-th, th.... monster," he says with distant sadness, realizing he's transformed in some part, "in this place, if you cannot indulge in your lusts for sex and violence... you transform into a monster." Then, just to be cruel, he adds...
"How luck you are to already be one."