i just cut the line

lanque bombyx || hiveswap

the resident whore who will findom you out of house and home

actually has a lot of reasons for being as much of a garbage can as he is but

can and will be as intimidating as he needs to be

“lanque, you’re not helping!” “i wasn’t trying to :)”

The empath shifted, and not in a comfortable way. The ground gets a knowing nod instead of the troll beside them; not out of pity, per se, but out of experience.

A train wreck was something they were very familiar with. Whether Lanque remembered their fear of them or not, Anda wasn’t sure… Lanque liked getting under people’s skin, but that was never one of the cards he’d pulled in the past. Maybe he was being genuine. Which only made the growing knot in their stomach tighter to think about.

“Um…”

…Subject change.

“…I’m, uh, not too sure. Everything after that time where we were all zapped to those islands is kind of a blur. Nothing horrible happened in the Fall, that’s new.” (”Halloween was kinda fun for a change, actually.”) “So I guess I’m not really the person to ask.”

The dealer came back with their usual bag of goods, and after a couple taps on their phone, Anda put it away in one of the deep pockets of their jacket.

“I still can’t really predict what happens here, so, like. I’d still be careful. But you do you.”

...well, yes. lanque can be manipulative and deliberate with bringing out the worst in people, but there are borders that shouldn’t be crossed. even he knows that. his mind... simply isn’t a steel trap. there’s a not so muffled under a cough “ my bad, ” when he realizes his blatant screw up.