(murderous rampage meme) "Kasmir wh-- what are you doing?? Please stop!"
With a low growl, Kasmir shoved the puppeteer further into the brick wall he had pinned her against, digging his fingers into her collarbones hard enough to risk snapping them.
The fearfulness in his friend’s voice was overwhelmed by rage and the searing heat of the angry burn wound stretching from his armpit to his hip where, under an hour ago, a drunk brawler had thought it funny to throw a makeshift Molotov at a demon trying to pick up his girlfriend. His body lay a few feet away, more of an abstract panting in carmine than a body at this point.
"Where do you get off telling people to stop?! HUH?” He rattled her, squeezing her shoulders even tighter for a few moments. “He fuckin’ tried to KILL ME. HE TRIED TO KILL ME, CELESTE!!”
The green of Kasmir’s broken eye was practically a flame unto itself.
Somewhere in the back of he mind, he knew that he was being unreasonable, that he had had attempts made on his life countless times before without a peep… but the image of the fire licking up through his black t-shirt dredged up ancient memories, and with them, an even more ancient violence.
