fever ♛ derek and deucalion
-- like the skin, like the insides of a corpse so many hours after death.
The ripening, the cracking, the bleed --
Deucalion had done a lot of thinking over the years. When one was blind, there was a process, but then, it wasn't just that. There was reflection involved, upon the past, upon things that he had done, and things he had watched others do. Everyone out there, no matter who they were, no matter what power they had. There was a metaphorical cliff. What was at the bottom of that cliff would be anyone's guess. Power. Fame, perhaps a fall from power even, or maybe something greater than even thought could think up. You didn't know until you hit the bottom. Falling, falling deeper. Being stripped of everything you once were. Deucalion had his pride, and he knew -- he knew that he had fallen from that cliff, taken the darker path. Shadows dancing underneath the trees, taunting, and reaching out toward him --
But, did Deucalion regret what he had become? He thought about it, as he stood there, underneath that canopy of evergreens. He wasn't sure. Thought was ambiguous anymore, plans crushed, his pack dissolved. If there was anything that made him regret, if there was anything -- it wasn't a question worth discussing right now. There was nothing that made it worth while. Like a road that had come to a halt. Why dabble within double truths if they no longer applied? There was nothing left but him, survival -- and whatever pieces he could gather back together of what once remained. And, really. He wished -- he wished it was more than that. Something else to hold onto. But, there isn't. This is how it is now, this is the truth.
-- he hears birds flying over, hears the beat of their wings --
-- and he stills, just stops to listen. The simple things that had given him pleasure when he was not able to see, most of them were taken from him as well, but there were other small things, and Deucalion was patient. They would come to him. They could, they would. His feet move over the ground slowly, cane out in front, it hovers, and he knows, and he steps strongly, with a heavy sort of weight. The only blood on him is upon his knees, and his knuckles, and a slight small spot of it on his neck, a spot that he had missed from the last time he had used his teeth upon a neck, sinking in deeper. Dinner, that had been, but he tried to keep clean, it was just lack of --
-- but, he knew it was there now. It had dried, and it itched, and he could smell the lingering blood upon himself as well. It was almost poetic in a way, like the stank of death had clung to him, not wanting to let go. And if Deucalion was the representation of an emotion, what emotion would he be? Prey tell, perhaps -- a sort of casual pride, but maybe something different, something more soft, or something more harsh. He was ambiguous, an enigma, his powers kept carefully hidden, along with ambitions, color coded, kept in the dark like so much else about him. They could say, think what they wanted, because in the end -- only he knew. And he kept to the path, walking -- sometimes, he wondered where his feet would lead him. He was somewhere, on a back road outside of Chicago, he had been lingering along these quite a bit lately, that was how he had found the farm, found Peter Hale.
-- Deucalion's feet come to a soft stop, before altering which way he is going, heading, there is a shack, now. Eyes glowing for just a moment, and he can see it. Hears -- does the other realize -- it smells like Croat, smells like fever, red hot sickness, bleeding deeper -- Deucalion is interested, wonders what is happening. Walks out and around in a careful stalk, folding his cane slowly, eyes glowing a deep red. If he isn't able to know what is happening, then he can't know what to expect, and if he can't know what to expect, than he could be surprised, more so without his eyes, so he applies, a growl rumbling through his chest slightly as he approaches.
-- maybe it will be something edible.
Maybe it will be something interesting...