it’s a biting retort. she keeps him at a distance. one hand is splayed before her. the other she holds across her stomach – poised at any moment to throw a flurry of violet blades.
he has the shadows on his side. out of the peripheral she can see the way the night darkens around him, sucking starlight from the heavens. she can kill him. she should kill him.
xayah takes one step to the side, another, in a wide arc – keeps her eyes on him all the while.
Kayn was a still presence. A predator, no doubt--a creature that watched and waited, that made no move to startle its prey. Or perhaps he was still determining what ought to be prey and what ought to be simply a passing by of two capable fighters.
His white eyes do not meet her gaze. No, he’s watching her body language. Watching how her legs bend as she shifts weight from one clawed foot to the other, how she holds her arms in a position that makes it apparent that she is ready and willing to strike--with what? Kayn isn’t sure. But he knew Vastayan magic was diverse and formidable.
“Perhaps your darkvision is poor,” Kayn jests. A smirk graces in dual-toned face. “Or perhaps you think yourself irredeemable? You weren’t one of those damn vastayan who sided with the Noxians, were you?”