Raising his head to sniff at the air, and the sweet citrus-laced cologne carried on the breeze, the mutant’s awful mouth hung open ever so slightly, sharp teeth peeking out behind black lips. The sound he made at the lithe offworlder who chose to walk along the city’s wall like some stray feline was an awful, mournful sound, an inhuman howl that could have damn near woken the dead.
“Hnnnn-Niotkuda! WHY?”
A hand clapped over his eye as he shook his head rattled around on his scrawny neck. For a creature who held little value for money, he couldn’t wrap his warped brain around why a friend would blind another. They were friends, once, good friends, of that the rat had no doubt, when Sebastian came out of the home he shared with the nomad, scented of sweat and sex and all manner of delicious things Deimos would have eagerly licked from his thighs.
Now, he only wanted to eat the man’s entrails while he was alive and suffered, though he was far from the mutant’s grasp, a faraway song bird perched on the wall.