" you should see the other guy. " - Kayn to Dex
@pecatus + prompt.
the audience hall is no longer alive with the anticipation of lord enver gortash's coronation ceremony. a heavy silence remains in the wake of it, pieces of metal stained with the blood of their foes littering the space. in hindsight, this all could've gone much better than it had. a fight that could've been saved for when they had gotten settled into the city & figured out what they were working with. dexterity, however, was still riding a high that they could not come down from having taken down one avatar of a god, & they have certainly never felt more powerful than they do now with so much of their brain being touched by illithid abilities. they did not doubt their capability to handle gortash & these machines he tried to hide behind & it had, as dexterity had expected, worked out for them.
that wasn't without struggle. all of their powers had been exhausted & their body feels heavy with desperate need for a rest. kayn certainly looks worse for wear, taking a majority of the heavy damage from the would-be archduke himself. they assume that kayn notices the way they look him over to gauge the injuries because he speaks & dex finds themself snorting out a laugh. a step forward is taken & he nudges gortash's body with the tip of his boot, giving the corpse a glance over before lifting their dark gaze back to the paladin. "this guy?" they motion amusedly & then flick their eyes to another nearby corpse. "or perhaps that one? they all do certainly look much worse than you." they grin & step over gortash, lifting their hands to cup kayn's face gently. dex lets their amusement fade, replaced by a genuine concern. "you're not going to pass out on me, are you?"
