Antithesis

Chapter 66: Coalesce

Whatshappening to me?'

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Lutain coiled thick and still, head resting in lethargy as the world stirred around him. He felt disconnected, conjoined and segmented but entirely whole. His body felt like stone, whole and complete. He felt itchy, blind as if going into shed and his vision tinted blue. He felt wrong, but no matter how often he looked, his scales remained black. He hadn't grown a day.

He was with Skylar, he had always been with Skylar. He had always been close, sapping and leaching his heat and warmth like it was blood of something divine. Like it was the silken hair of a maiden untouched by sun.

Skylar moved quickly, pacing again across the floor in front of him.

Passing by Lutain, sensed by his heat pits as warmth moving back and forth and- was that bloody cashmere? Merlin even Skylar's fashion taste was outrageous- heat moving back and forth back and forth- For Merlin's sake, did that spoiled brat really have his bloody parents pick out his robes- heat moving back and forth.

Lutain flickered his tongue, the after image burning and clarifying what was real and what wasn't, his memory urging him to flinch although his instincts comforted him and confirmed it was natural.

Heat moving back and forth.

Skylar what a bloody prick-.

Heat moving back and forth.

Remus no don't-.

Heat moving back and forth.

Do you know what it is like to be unmade?

Skylar threw his head back and made a noise that was far too odd to ever be considered animalistic. It would be cruel to Lutain himself to think as such. If anything, it changed Skylar's face in a way his Master never did, his face flushed and his mouth moved wobbly. Lutain knew human's couldn't flex their jaw the way he could, so the expression seemed absolutely pointless in his mind.

"You can't open your mouth." Lutain hissed boredly, watching as the boy's eyes seemed wet in a weird way. "I'm sorry, my fault. I forgot you were an idiot."

Skylar turned to look at Lutain, squinting and tilting his head as if deep in thought. It just pinched and made his facial expression even more distorted. Was he trying to intimidate Lutain by looking more freakish?

"Stop that, it won't work." Lutain hissed back snappishly. "I'm not as dumb as you look."

"Are you…" Skylar trailed off unsure, rubbing his upper arms unsure. Lutain's Master crossed his arms like that, but he looked strong. Skylar just looked weak and indecisive. "Are you...talking to me?"

Lutain shifted his tail. "No. I'm talking to the wall."

Skylar squinted and wiggled his nose. Lutain pondered if perhaps the Rat-man would have liked Skylar.

No, both were far too impulsive and timid to ever be friends. It was much more likely that the two would have forgone wands all together and scrabbled at each other with the soft nails human had, and their blunt fangless mouths. Maybe if Lutain egged on the fight, Skylar would summon the courage to bite off the Rat-man's ear?