for rat

Sep. 26th, 2013 03:50 pm
onlythefire: (Default)
There's basically no one else Sandor would bother going to look for. Either they've demonstrated they're more than able to take care of themselves (by his standards, even) or he just doesn't give a shit. But the kid's physically more vulnerable than most, and young. He can see how some of the others might take it into their heads he's the one to go to for answers-- and wouldn't put it past most of 'em not to go after those answers the hard way.

So when Sandor doesn't see him for more than a few days in a row, he decides it's time to find him. Harder to do than it sounds, for someone as good at hiding as Rat. In the end, he finds the kid by accident, curled up in one of the observation decks on the upper floors, playing fetch with one of his little pets.

Suddenly awkward, Sandor doesn't know how to admit he'd been concerned, especially since the kid's clearly fine. So he goes for gruff instead-- easier, more familiar. "Still not sick of the view?"
onlythefire: (oh please)
Ignoring the twinge in his knee, Sandor ran, dodging around corners and running on nothing but blind instinct. Behind him, he could hear the heavy footfalls of the beast as it chased him, the ominous rustling of its leafy mass coming closer.

It was bad enough being in a maze made of hedges. But when the sculptures made of hedges came to life and started chasing them through the maze, Sandor felt comfortable calling that really fucking out of hand. He risked a glance behind him and saw the thing was catching up, its bulk apparently not impeding its speed. He ran faster, seeing an opening ahead-- a way out?-- but caught his foot on an exposed root and tumbled down. Up, he thought, scrambling for it, but a brambled paw caught him in the gut and sent him down again. On his back, the creature towered over him, and he skittered backward as fast as he could. He had no idea what it would do when it decided it was done playing with him like a cat with a mouse, but he was sure he didn't want to know.

A look over his shoulder showed him the doorway was near, and he levered himself to his feet to make a break for it, feeling the catch behind him as the hedge-creature grabbed at his shirt. It pulled; he pulled back, and stumbled through the doorway pulling it behind him. There was a mournful, sourceless cry, and Sandor turned in amazement to watch the thing crumble, dissolving almost into a pile of dead leaves and sticks.

He straightened, turned, and looked at the rest of his group, who were standing in a cluster waiting for him to emerge, and staring at him. "Well, now we've got firewood," he said, bending to sweep a pile of the former hedge-thing into his arms.

[gathering style.]
onlythefire: (burning)
It had crossed his mind a few times that he might be going mad.

First, the monster that had chased him that neither the girl nor Mystique could see. That had been bad enough, and almost enough to make him think he was already in the throes of madness, except that Mystique had been seeing things as well that he was just as blind to.

But since that morning he'd been under a different sort of attack, one he was powerless against... )

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