Emil kept his eyes carefully hidden with trembling hands. He could hear the large sworded man move around in the forest of frozen monsters, searching for the blindfold that had slipped from his grip as he had jumped down from the boulder fortress and faced the large cats eye to eye.
It had been quite dangerous, even though no living creature had successfully avoided his death glare so far. There had been three cats, maybe even four, and if one had sunk it’s claws in his back or zapped him with the tentacle like-whisker… He did not have eyes on his back - praise gods for that, although in situations like these it would have been useful.
These thoughts only occurred to him afterwards. It was good that he had his eyes covered, as otherwise the man might have noticed that he shed a few panicked tears. That had been scary!
“Okay, I’ll catch it!” Emil said. He didn’t, but he found it sitting on top of his head. Keeping his eyes securely closed, he wrapped the blindfold around his head with blind fingers and sighed in relief.
“I know,” Emil said, slowly standing up again. “I wish I could explain myself. I don’t even know where to start. Thanks for saving me! I wasn’t sure if they’re friendly not, so I didn’t want to kill them at first.”
There was a small pause. Was he going to be left wandering the desert for all eternity?
“Hey, uh?” he said with a tentative smile. “How did you get here? I could use directions to… to… find humans, I think.” He tried not think how any person in their right mind would shun him. Who would ever take the risk of providing shelter to a weapon?
》 Was that... an explanation? Not really, so Gladio was wary, crossing his arms tightly as he listened to the kid. In other circumstance he would have been so suspicious that his next decision would have been a more cold hearted one, but this was a kid, just a child, a sort of blind one at that, and like hell was he going to leave it to himself in the desert.
» Just know that if you’re roaming around here, if it ain’t got a human voice or a chocobo caw it’s safe to assume it wants to kill you. « he murmurs, still watching the kid as if the small one was going to run away.
» I jogged here, my morning run. « he explained, and stomped closer to where the boy was standing. » I’ll take you to the city. I got things to do today, but if you got nowhere to go, I’ll drop you off somewhere safe. «
Gladio made it sound as though it was a fixed plan, and no objections would be valid. » C’mon, we’re heading back. «
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