it's not because Kni called his name, or because he recognizes the two blond children trying to puff up at him like two kittens puffing up at a half-grown cur--but for just a moment, the part of Nick that remembers Livio, that treasured being his big brother falters and stares at these two children who were barely older than him when he first got taken for all of this madness
... but he's a creature of the Eye, now, and that freeze is just a heartbeat and then he's shouldering his rifle again.
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it's not because Kni called his name, or because he recognizes the two blond children trying to puff up at him like two kittens puffing up at a half-grown cur--but for just a moment, the part of Nick that remembers Livio, that treasured being his big brother falters and stares at these two children who were barely older than him when he first got taken for all of this madness
... but he's a creature of the Eye, now, and that freeze is just a heartbeat and then he's shouldering his rifle again.
pop. pop. one shot, two. right at the children. ]