[ Though the ruins are strange in ways that are both better and worse than the core, they're still a place that Logan understands. The trees, the earth, the light filtered through the leaves -- he feels more at home here than he has for a while.
So, for a little while, he lets it take him. Lets some of his humanity go, like playing a guide rope out through his fingers; just enough to lose himself in the hunt and forget some of what's going on in this broken place. For a time, it's enough.
The sounds of a fight draw him through the trees. He pauses at the edge of it, watching through the rot-smelling undergrowth as a guy who looks like he just stepped out of a Medieval Times calmly and efficiently dispatches a pack of spiders.
One of the smaller spiders flees in Logan's direction; silently, he pops his claws and pins it to a tree trunk beside his head. The creature's black blood runs down his claws and pools against his knuckles, stinging. He flips the spider's body off his claws into the trees as the knight pauses and mutters to himself. ]
I wouldn't wish too hard for that, bub. [ Logan straightens up as he speaks and sheathes his claws, wincing a little as the spider's corrosive blood is pulled into the wounds in his hand. ] Never know when you're gonna be the one on the other end of it.
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So, for a little while, he lets it take him. Lets some of his humanity go, like playing a guide rope out through his fingers; just enough to lose himself in the hunt and forget some of what's going on in this broken place. For a time, it's enough.
The sounds of a fight draw him through the trees. He pauses at the edge of it, watching through the rot-smelling undergrowth as a guy who looks like he just stepped out of a Medieval Times calmly and efficiently dispatches a pack of spiders.
One of the smaller spiders flees in Logan's direction; silently, he pops his claws and pins it to a tree trunk beside his head. The creature's black blood runs down his claws and pools against his knuckles, stinging. He flips the spider's body off his claws into the trees as the knight pauses and mutters to himself. ]
I wouldn't wish too hard for that, bub. [ Logan straightens up as he speaks and sheathes his claws, wincing a little as the spider's corrosive blood is pulled into the wounds in his hand. ] Never know when you're gonna be the one on the other end of it.