retraced: (oh lord I see you grinning)
widowed heroine ([personal profile] retraced) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull_logs 2012-11-01 05:18 pm (UTC)

In his rambling he hadn't thought to ask himself if he'd ever explained this part of Raven's power to Daedalus, but as he's questioned, he realizes that of course it would never have come up. Oz had been sealed back home, and slowly he hadn't needed the seal any longer as his own contract had started to tick away on his chest. It's never been relevant here, not while Oz was here or gone, not until now when he'd attempted to do this favor for his superior with all the promises that it wouldn't affect him.

But it had been too much in the end, after all. Just like Break had warned him. And without these strange new powers that he'd been discovering lately, he might just have died out there in the early morning darkness.

"I..."

He wants to say that yes, he's sure. There's no way that he would have gone this long in life without recognizing it before. He's been injured in his life, sick, poisoned even. Just because he lived through all those things...

The sword that sliced him open when he was a child. Cheshire's claws that cut him apart. The poison that he'd swallowed that nearly killed him. The wound wasn't as bad as I thought - that's what he'd told himself back then. Was that really all it was? His breathing goes more strained, shuddering against his words.

"I'm not. I don't know anything, I'm..."

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