"[...] but he spent too much time around the playgrounders. They were a good team, they stayed together, even as the harsh circumstances forced them to take different paths.
However, that got in my way.
I wanted nothing more than to have him all for me. He kept playing and isolating me too much for how I'd usually toy with prey, and it is only now he'd start to see the consequences.
A single slip was enough for the inphernal's head to get smashed by a falling piece of metal. The round finished right when it happened. The inphernal could've been saved, but somehow..
".." I rose a sleeve up to my lips and took a step closer to him. His body was almost giving out on its own from how much strength he forced into the fight. He couldn't put up with it anymore, and to mimic an attempt..
"It'll be okay." I cradled his face with clawed fingers and pulled the frowning punk closer to me. "Everything's going to be just fine." Whispers seeping through open pores. A single tear rolled down his face. I let out horns clank and intertwine in a thorned echo of affection.
"You're going to be okay."