investigations // for shiningmoon/umbralstar

[numbers96]

[It was a simple matter, really, to move its card to where it needed to be. All it took was some very small suggestions. Show cards to your friends, spread them out just so, and when the new boy re-gathers the cards spread on the ground, Black Mist's card ends up in his deck. Easy. Simple.

It is intrigued, by the new child in the group, by Shingetsu Rei. Such closeness with Yuuma Tsukumo, so quickly, that ability to produce an obedience it has never seen from Astral's bearer.

(it sees how he struggles and drowns in his skin)

(it comes off him in waves, saturates the air)

(such a weakness to dig its tendrils into and tear open wide)

It watches, from its card, and waits until they are alone.]

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[numbers96]

[It presses in a little closer as the oil begins to pump slowly in (not all at once but in a steady rhythm of pulses that stretch the knot in the tendril when they pass through), nuzzles at his cheek.]

Mmh...you aren't truly Tsukumo Yuuma's friend, are you, little Barian?

[Now is the best time to ask, now when his mind is pliant and open and giving.

Its hand strokes slowly over his chest.]