[Lloyd's eyes are wide, and he's staring back at Kratos just as much as Kratos seems unable to look away from him. After all these years wishing he had more of his father than an ageing image in the locket around his neck, seeing him in the flesh like this -- as an angel -- is very nearly too much.
[My dad's an angel.
[Before, he'd looked forbidding, with the light of his wings casting his face into stark lines; and even though now he's not exactly soft, the look on his face is so far from forbidding that it puts a lump in Lloyd's throat and makes his eyes blur.
[My dad's an angel.
[Lloyd does hear Raine, and almost reflexively he drops his swords, but he can't quite move to do anything else.
[Around him, the other young men exchange uneasy glances, but the majority of them also move to disarm; either because they trust Raine, or because Raine's teachings about logical reasoning have sunk in. But a few don't, and these are the ones whose mana is most out of whack, standing with hard defiance and blank eyes.
[It's that which makes Kratos look up, sharply, before one of them lunges at Raine without so much as a tell; but they are not alone, and there are angels there to intercept.]
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[My dad's an angel.
[Before, he'd looked forbidding, with the light of his wings casting his face into stark lines; and even though now he's not exactly soft, the look on his face is so far from forbidding that it puts a lump in Lloyd's throat and makes his eyes blur.
[My dad's an angel.
[Lloyd does hear Raine, and almost reflexively he drops his swords, but he can't quite move to do anything else.
[Around him, the other young men exchange uneasy glances, but the majority of them also move to disarm; either because they trust Raine, or because Raine's teachings about logical reasoning have sunk in. But a few don't, and these are the ones whose mana is most out of whack, standing with hard defiance and blank eyes.
[It's that which makes Kratos look up, sharply, before one of them lunges at Raine without so much as a tell; but they are not alone, and there are angels there to intercept.]