While Viktor's scrutiny relaxes away from those fresh augmentations, it persists; the doctor's curiosity, his interest, is noted with private approval.
With a gait kept slow for want of urgency, not ability, he moves near. There's a fluidity to it. A sense of ease in limbs wrought anew, sculpted in flexing strips of some alloy yet unnamed in this world. Here and there, in the gaps between sinews, a dim glow. The faintest distortion, like a buzzing echo barely offset, as he says,
"My name will suffice."
He now lifts his gaze, shares in the survey of the structure surrounding them with eyes gone strange: pale, opaline. No trace left of that warm gold.
"Your emergence is timely—many changes are underway, and we have need of your skillset."
i promise my next tag will come less than two months later
With a gait kept slow for want of urgency, not ability, he moves near. There's a fluidity to it. A sense of ease in limbs wrought anew, sculpted in flexing strips of some alloy yet unnamed in this world. Here and there, in the gaps between sinews, a dim glow. The faintest distortion, like a buzzing echo barely offset, as he says,
"My name will suffice."
He now lifts his gaze, shares in the survey of the structure surrounding them with eyes gone strange: pale, opaline. No trace left of that warm gold.
"Your emergence is timely—many changes are underway, and we have need of your skillset."