[There’s blood everywhere: all over Larus, on the floor, and now on his own clothes and skin, too. The smell is nauseating, thick, and intimately familiar, especially in the amount on the floor and shared between them. (Of course his first month in a new place finds him covered in someone else’s blood—- especially that of someone he’s come closer to.)
Dorian expected this reaction from the other man, but it’s not a good enough reason for Larus to let himself bleed out. Dorian doesn’t want this, the very least reason of which being that he’s going to need to find another place to hide Larus soon, and doing that while experiencing all of the sights and sounds of the Down through a veil of euphoria is going to be nearly impossible. Nevermind the visceral reminder of the act of giving up blood being something that had become precious to him—- romantic, even.
But he is not going to let this young immortal die, no matter what it takes.]
Stop it, Larus. [He’s not going to stop trying to stem the other man’s bleeding either, even if Larus is now making that difficult. Dorian grips at the vampire, trying to help him sit up again so he can at least look at the wound in his torso to decide if there’s anything that can be done for it at all.]
So the choice instead is to die? Tell me how that makes any sense.
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Dorian expected this reaction from the other man, but it’s not a good enough reason for Larus to let himself bleed out. Dorian doesn’t want this, the very least reason of which being that he’s going to need to find another place to hide Larus soon, and doing that while experiencing all of the sights and sounds of the Down through a veil of euphoria is going to be nearly impossible. Nevermind the visceral reminder of the act of giving up blood being something that had become precious to him—- romantic, even.
But he is not going to let this young immortal die, no matter what it takes.]
Stop it, Larus. [He’s not going to stop trying to stem the other man’s bleeding either, even if Larus is now making that difficult. Dorian grips at the vampire, trying to help him sit up again so he can at least look at the wound in his torso to decide if there’s anything that can be done for it at all.]
So the choice instead is to die? Tell me how that makes any sense.