@voxcrystallis asked: ❝ wait here. i’ll check it out. ❞ | ANASTASIA MEME | Accepting
He would have offered up a word of complaint, but it would have been too risky if there was actual danger in the moment. All Joshua could really do was shoot his Knight a stern look as one hand reached out, as if to try to snag hold of the hem of her cloak, before falling limp at his side.
They had taken up camp for the night in a small tent, one that Jote had set up on her own at her own insistence. Same with the fire crackling outside and the pot of soup simmering above it. Having to watch someone else build a fire was always a frustration experience, but the in past year since taking that piece of Ultima into himself even Joshua couldn't deny his grasp on his powers ebbed and flowed in inconvenient bursts. He could always force it, but that was just as likely to back and hurt him as it would anything else.
It had been that selfsame wound that had never managed to fully heal that Jote had been checking when they both heard the sound of something rustling just outside the walls of the tent.
The only thing he could guarantee it wasn't was another dominant. Likely not a bearer either; there was no sense of aether in the air that he could feel. But that did not mean it wasn't a threat or that Jote wasn't putting herself in danger.
For him. Again.
After another beat he reached out, snatching up the red covering he wore overtop his shirt, pulling it on to cover up any sign of the wound. He still couldn't risk calling out, but grabbed for his dagger before heading after his Knight.
He wasn't going to allow her to be in danger because of him.
