The Lord of Shades stills, and their small amount of grip goes completely slack. If Lemm is done, he is, and they're not going to contain him for an instant longer. He's not Grimm, who could be smothered in layer after layer of shadow and be shaken but fine.
--But he comes back nearly as fast as they do so. Leaning more, holding more, matching their aborted motion. And it's overwhelming, that he is, and that they can feel it like this.
They return to it.
And, in what would be absolutely horrible penmanship, had they a pen and not tracing blunt lines along his back: GRATEFUL.
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--But he comes back nearly as fast as they do so. Leaning more, holding more, matching their aborted motion. And it's overwhelming, that he is, and that they can feel it like this.
They return to it.
And, in what would be absolutely horrible penmanship, had they a pen and not tracing blunt lines along his back: GRATEFUL.