"He was trying to get me to agree to die." Seductive and whispering and lovely, a beautiful, horrible creature luring him to the edge, but Daniel did not want to be lured. He could see Armand, and no amount of hypnotism was going to work. "You said, later, the way you described his hunting to me— that it was never violent. But it felt violent, then, even with how quiet he was. I wouldn't agree to it out loud, so he did something and I put my head down anyway, and I couldn't do anything but comply."
He was exhausted by then. Drained and battered and without food or water for at least a few days, badly hungover on top of everything else. Not enough energy to fight against full control, but nothing was ever going to make him want to die.
"And then you were back. I wasn't afraid of you. It was a relief to see you, even with you in that state, even after you attacked me. You were the guy who was charming at the bar, still. The last familiar thing before the world got put on its head."
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"He was trying to get me to agree to die." Seductive and whispering and lovely, a beautiful, horrible creature luring him to the edge, but Daniel did not want to be lured. He could see Armand, and no amount of hypnotism was going to work. "You said, later, the way you described his hunting to me— that it was never violent. But it felt violent, then, even with how quiet he was. I wouldn't agree to it out loud, so he did something and I put my head down anyway, and I couldn't do anything but comply."
He was exhausted by then. Drained and battered and without food or water for at least a few days, badly hungover on top of everything else. Not enough energy to fight against full control, but nothing was ever going to make him want to die.
"And then you were back. I wasn't afraid of you. It was a relief to see you, even with you in that state, even after you attacked me. You were the guy who was charming at the bar, still. The last familiar thing before the world got put on its head."