❴ THOUGH THE SILENCE ❵ was a means to show her dissatisfaction with him and conjure some sort of regret the World Eater found little use in her ploys. Sanguine eyes remained vigilant. From her face they fleetingly stared upon his scaled hands, virgin gauze stained with ink, trailing so that he peered out the rear mirror. Anxiety simmered in his core, sure that every moment his eyes laid upon the reflections of the world left behind their travels there would be the odious presence of the enemy. The nip to his cheek released an unconscious, glottal noise not far akin from a growl, eyes - the darkness around them giving the illusion of sunken - glaring at her.
❝ Hero is far from the correct statement. ❞ A pause. ❝ Do not go home. ❞
“I don’t give a fuck what you want to call it,” she snapped back. She hit the brakes hard, jerking them to a hard stop a hairsbreadth from the car in front of them. Her horn blared and the car ahead of her beeped back. “Asshole,” she breathed, her knuckles turning white, then green, against the steering wheel. At Alduin’s request, she shot him a look. “Giving orders now? You can’t do that unless you tell me what’s going on.”