[ Nobles are a fickle lot. That he had learned long ago; and as the city writhed and changed, perhaps ironically it could be said that the nobility were the ones more resilient to the change, hidden behind unclean money and walls and death and prayers to the one with pitless depths for eyes. If only they knew the Outsider was laughing at them.
The fainest glow of his Mark, and the world colors just a little more red and shadows fade, and he squints at a glimpse of the man, notes how he moves back with practiced precision. One used to the art of disappearing.
Or not being there at all.
The bone charm? Not entirely useless, and ultimately, something Corvo would want to keep, if only for the sake of the smallest power he draws from it (bitterly, no less). As far as he understood it, bone charms had a small tendency to drive a person mad with the persistent humming and nightmares, tendrils of wet bone dripping against metal, as though swimming in the Outsider's murk.
But this? Was a distraction from the dulling, headache-inducing sweetness of the court at hand. So Corvo proceeds on with no shortcoming of surety, further from the noise, edging closer into less crowded, dimmer hallways.
asfhad buzzes excitedly
The fainest glow of his Mark, and the world colors just a little more red and shadows fade, and he squints at a glimpse of the man, notes how he moves back with practiced precision. One used to the art of disappearing.
Or not being there at all.
The bone charm? Not entirely useless, and ultimately, something Corvo would want to keep, if only for the sake of the smallest power he draws from it (bitterly, no less). As far as he understood it, bone charms had a small tendency to drive a person mad with the persistent humming and nightmares, tendrils of wet bone dripping against metal, as though swimming in the Outsider's murk.
But this? Was a distraction from the dulling, headache-inducing sweetness of the court at hand. So Corvo proceeds on with no shortcoming of surety, further from the noise, edging closer into less crowded, dimmer hallways.
You want the thing? Come and get it. ]