📷 for what my muse would say to the paparazzi about yours.
“I said you had ten minutes,” said Nethiel, drawing a claw down her cheek as she stared at the smaller Tal’Darim, his narrow eyes watching her, warily. “If you don’t hurry, I’ll make it five.”
“Y-yes Ascendant,” he stuttered, tapping the small device before him. A blue light flickered on, and he turned the lens to point at Nethiel.
She smirked, crossing one leg over the other. “I may sit high up the chain, but I still like to be referred to as a Blood Hunter,” she said, resting a hand atop her knee, covered in the gleaming black metal of her armour. “I got to where I am as a Blood Hunter - and it is what I am. I have no qualms with that, unlike others.”
“Of course, Nethiel - may I call you Nethiel?”
“If you call me Neth, I will kill you.”
She laughed and leaned back into the chair, never letting her eyes leave his. “Well. You have nine minutes left.”
“R-right,” he said, fingers anxiously wringing together. “One - one of the questions I hear often is that someone has finally - finally managed to - to tame the infamous Nethiel. A Lieutenant by the name of Kelha’zil.”
At his words, a melodic laugh spilled from Nethiel’s mind to his. Her claws, splayed, tapped over her knee, the gentle hiss of claw on metal a harmony to her melody.
“Tame me? No-one tames me,” she said, leaning forward, her covered cords falling forward with the slow, laboured movement. “Kelha’zil is my lover; he is my friend; my companion in battle.” She paused, her eyes settling on the camera, it’s small blue light blinking. “But above all, he is mine.”
“Yours?” said the interviewer, resting his nervous hands atop his lap.
“Your mind isn’t addled, no? You can hear my words, yes?” she asked with a sneer, her eyes narrowed to a smirk.
“Some people like to put their hands where they don’t belong,” she said, purposefully, her eyes fixed on the camera. “But no matter. Those who do, will only end up pulling back a stump, when I remove their fingers, one by one.” Nethiel laughed, loudly, as she settled back onto the seat, sighing pleasantly.
The reporter blinked, tapping the pads of his fingers together. “Does that mean you love him?”
At that, Nethiel, said nothing.
She blinked, her hand tightening around her knee, the tips dragging along the unscathed metal.
“When do I have to love something for it to be mine?” she challenged, her voice wavering, just a little.
“You must feel something for him-”
“Six minutes. Next question, of you’ll feel my blade in your neck, and your head on this floor.”
Oh she did. She felt something.