"Look at you so put together...” Mohn mumbled with a broad smile.
Gladion was trying...really, really trying to keep composed. Here he was standing before him wounded and his boy did nothing more than flinch. It was a gift even to be so controlled on the outside when he can tell so much was going on inside.
He envied his own son. Ah right now the man was panicked despite the grinning facade he choose to wear to calm Gladion down.
“I’m Professor Mohn, my boy...! Of course I’m alright! I wouldn’t let no assailant separate us. Not for a moment.” A hand went up to gently tussle his hair; trying to keep a certain respect...until the formality collapsed just as he did to wrap his arms around him and squeeze the boy. No pain was worth his son.
“But I’m so glad you are here to protect your sister.”
”I don’t care. I can’t look any worse than I do everyday, right?”
He tried to give a humorous pull in their reunion, but it came out in a botched cross between a cough, a twinge of pain, and a somewhat teary laugh. Oh to see her so shaken up...it hurt him more than the bullet wound. So it seemed that news came to her that he went missing? And the incident that followed after? It couldn’t be helped as much as he tried to hide it.
Mohn never wanted her to see her falter, not even for a moment.
-- She was the matriarch, the foundation, the warlord, and a Queen put it simply-
If he fell so be it, but let nothing shake the Empress.
In a moment he found himself slipping past her trembling hold to press his face into hers reveling in the warmth of her face and the bitter-sweet smell of her delicate perfume in deep inhales. While he was laying in the sands taking shaking breaths he feared he’d never get to experience her ever again. His lips followed through just as longing, finding them peppering her brow somehow desperate before resting at the corners of her eye.
By now slow tears rolled down the side of his face.
It was worth the pinch of pain to hold her close again.
“I don’t think I could rest until I saw you were okay.”
[ c o n t a c t ] Aether Base - Nyx’D ENFORCER 🔫 🍄
[txt] Miss Nyx? are you there?
[txt] this is k inda importnt. i kno u were ordrd to watch ovr things in Paradise nd the kids and the rest of the Enforcrs
[txt] but I
His fingers hesitated between the blight pain still stabbing him in the side and trying to find the right words to explain all of this. It was probably hard enough he was typing with one hand.
[txt] but I ned you to bring the med kit ASAP. im on an outside western island from VLFS
Another day of this panic and things were starting to finally come together. Aether was coming together...! If Mohn wasn’t completely dazed he’d be glowing with pride at how his team was working in an effort to protect the family. The whole of the Foundation was working harder then he’s seen before.
-- ‘We’ve been prepared this whole time. Maybe I had nothing to worry about like I did.’
Now walking on the outskirts of an island beach he could take in a deep breath of the ocean side. In came calm...out came the twisted anxiety scratching at his core the whole while through. It was just him and this secluded beach for awhile. He needed to step out alone from the Not-So-Aether-Paradise for just an evening to keep from emitting panic to the whole of the Foundation while he cleared his head.
The threats died down..., Lillie was being brave enough to bear herself, Gladion was being watchful and Lusamine...ah, as if this even perturbed her for a moment.
He had nothing to worry about.
For the first time since this event a smile stretched softly on his face as he faced the sun dotting the horizon water line.
‘Alright... I’m going to go home, lift the ban keeping everything on the VLFS, and spend some downtown with my family... Get things back to runnin’ smooth-”
- B A N G -
The sound reached him before the pain did. Mohn was suspended in place if only for a moment before the hot, burning sensation ripped through his side. He came crashing into the sands with curdled grunts of pain muffled into the ground and hands clutching at his side.
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”Well now, I do love my wife and her honor but I also understand people have their differences. Well I’ll be darned if I didn’t have my share of opposers. I’m just curious is all Miss...mm...Team-Skull-Adminess? I’m not’a fightin’ type a person; more like a listening or invesitgatin’ type! I am after all a researcher by profession.”
“I offer no hostility o’course...just wanna hear your mm ‘beef’? ...Jus’ respect her namesake while I’m here if ya will though.”
