After a second to acknowledge the darkness now cloaking his arm, he firmly quells the natural fear that wants him to try tearing it all off. Lemm tucks it behind his beard and more closely against his chest instead.
He dredges up every pithy reference he has, from those who've brought him relics or just from the records of those who left them behind... ...and it was as lengthy as this caravan, or bigger! - great biting thing with shell so thick my Nail couldn't - she never saw it coming, it hunted us blind -
The statue-marker isn't good cover, but Lemm is resisting the urge to run somewhere else - not courageously, but because the moment the Knight chased that thing back up into the earth this became the right course of action.
Lemm curls around the little mass of shadow clinging to his arm. Through the ringing in his hearing he listens for the Knight and tells himself in a mantra that the Lord of Shades can take care of themselves, and he wills himself to stay very, very still. Lemm is not much for heroics. Even less so when he's holding something so important.
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He dredges up every pithy reference he has, from those who've brought him relics or just from the records of those who left them behind... ...and it was as lengthy as this caravan, or bigger! - great biting thing with shell so thick my Nail couldn't - she never saw it coming, it hunted us blind -
The statue-marker isn't good cover, but Lemm is resisting the urge to run somewhere else - not courageously, but because the moment the Knight chased that thing back up into the earth this became the right course of action.
Lemm curls around the little mass of shadow clinging to his arm. Through the ringing in his hearing he listens for the Knight and tells himself in a mantra that the Lord of Shades can take care of themselves, and he wills himself to stay very, very still. Lemm is not much for heroics. Even less so when he's holding something so important.