@featheredbarkeep - continued from x!
Well, Husk had seen through that ruse faster than melting ice in summer! Vox chuckled a tense little chuckle, and flicked his eyes side to side... before returning his attention to the glass that he had pinned between his sharp-tipped fingers.
"... Yeah," he said, quietly.
Maybe he should've just been upfront. It wasn't like the two of them were on bad terms, and Husk seemed more than ready to spill the tea— 'smiley fuck' could only mean one thing. One person.
"I just thought you were smarter than that, that's all," remarked Vox with a shrug.
He shut his eyes, tipped his head back, and took a gulp of his drink.
It seemed to him that Husk had been struggling to stay afloat for a while now. This was the natural progression of things, if a sinner's ambitions got out of control; they continued to amass power, continued to fly closer and closer to the sun... and then their wings caught fire and melted, and they fell. Hard.
Accustomed to it as Vox was, witnessing the fall of another Overlord was never easy.
It shook everything up. it ruined his perception of who was his 'peer' and who wasn't. It split their toxic little Overlord 'friend group' right down the middle, and left an uncomfortable, empty seat at the table. The meetings were always tense for weeks after the fact— everyone was rattled, save for the soul who had come out on top. Alastor's reputation for toppling Overlords wasn't unheard of, of course. The guy was famous for it.
This method, however, was new.
There was no broadcast. Husk was still alive and intact, and was seemingly free to do as he pleased. Alastor was nowhere in sight, after all. Vox would have gone straight to the Radio Demon himself with his questions, but things had been tense between the two of them lately. Why not hear the victim out for once?
It would sell, he was thinking. Vox could see the headlines now: 'Ex Overlord Caught Shooting Whiskey, Here's What He Had To Say...'
Vox set his glass down, hummed a little, and leaned in.
"Sooo... Husker! How'd it happen?"
And then he smiled, but not too much. Didn't want to piss him off.