[At the first sharp turn Skulduggery instinctively flings an arm out to rocket himself backwards through the air which doesn't exist, and it takes both the injection of calm in his mind and the sight of exactly what they turned so abruptly to avoid before he can begin to relax again.
More to the point, there was an injection of outside calm in his mind. Telepathy? A moment later Skulduggery's question is answered for him when he experiences a very keen exasperation over something he hadn't given a second thought to before right now. Telepathy accompanied with emotion. Interesting. Why didn't Kratos use this before?
Probably to be polite. He reminds Skulduggery a little of Hopeless.
Skulduggery tests whether the connection is two-way with a bit of verbal (mental?) affronted defense over the planet's cluttered orbit, but either he isn't doing it right or only angels can broadcast telepathic messages, because he doesn't receive any reply. That'll make things a little more inconvenient, but it suits Skulduggery just fine. With the constant flickering green shields, electricity serving almost as a second pair of wings for Kratos, and the vastness of space all around them, it feels like no time at all has passed before Kratos turns them back towards the planet, and for an instant Skulduggery's confused as to why.
It's funny, he reflects somewhere behind the dull turn of shock. Sorcerers live for nearly a thousand years. That kind of time affords the entire community the utmost assurance that they're the masters of fate, the keepers of all knowledge, the end-all-be-all of the experience of life. Skulduggery himself has done things worse than any mortal on Earth can possibly imagine, and the weight of those crimes has done a fair bit to convince him that disagreements between sorcerers can end the world.
But there's the world. Right there. Impossibly big. Impossibly beautiful. Impossibly solid. Completely unaware of what's on its surface, billions of years old, and laughably untouched by every single event Skulduggery's fought through, cared about, and given his life for.
It lends perspective.
No wonder Kratos wanted to land here.
After what feels like forever, Skulduggery reaches up and taps Kratos. If he stares at this much longer, he's half-worried he'll go insane. ... er.]
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More to the point, there was an injection of outside calm in his mind. Telepathy? A moment later Skulduggery's question is answered for him when he experiences a very keen exasperation over something he hadn't given a second thought to before right now. Telepathy accompanied with emotion. Interesting. Why didn't Kratos use this before?
Probably to be polite. He reminds Skulduggery a little of Hopeless.
Skulduggery tests whether the connection is two-way with a bit of verbal (mental?) affronted defense over the planet's cluttered orbit, but either he isn't doing it right or only angels can broadcast telepathic messages, because he doesn't receive any reply. That'll make things a little more inconvenient, but it suits Skulduggery just fine. With the constant flickering green shields, electricity serving almost as a second pair of wings for Kratos, and the vastness of space all around them, it feels like no time at all has passed before Kratos turns them back towards the planet, and for an instant Skulduggery's confused as to why.
But only for an instant.
It's funny, he reflects somewhere behind the dull turn of shock. Sorcerers live for nearly a thousand years. That kind of time affords the entire community the utmost assurance that they're the masters of fate, the keepers of all knowledge, the end-all-be-all of the experience of life. Skulduggery himself has done things worse than any mortal on Earth can possibly imagine, and the weight of those crimes has done a fair bit to convince him that disagreements between sorcerers can end the world.
But there's the world. Right there. Impossibly big. Impossibly beautiful. Impossibly solid. Completely unaware of what's on its surface, billions of years old, and laughably untouched by every single event Skulduggery's fought through, cared about, and given his life for.
It lends perspective.
No wonder Kratos wanted to land here.
After what feels like forever, Skulduggery reaches up and taps Kratos. If he stares at this much longer, he's half-worried he'll go insane. ... er.]