@uurkhilen; continued from here.
Vaya stares at the warrior with fierce intensity for a moment, something like confusion tightening his features. Something, but not quite: with his tail low, the long, soft fur on end, he brandishes his own weapon. The rapier sings lowly with aether and trembles ever so slightly in his hand. When, at last, he turns his gaze to the highway men, their faces hardlined and their steel well-used, it’s plain on his own face that it isn’t fear that courses through his veins and makes his heart race.
It’s anger.
❝I don’t run,❞ he hisses, the air around him growing thick, as though saturated by a coming storm. It’s a slow cast, a warning-- one last moment for his enemies to think better of their actions. ❝I pick my battles. And I don’t let others do my work for me.❞ With that, he’s gathered enough aether to shower the assailants with lightning.








