And useful is the sensation as the Imperator crouching close gives a quiet hum. Useful gets something like a smile, brief and frantic in its own way but real even here among the shadows and slick, all flashing teeth and bubbling of delicate energy. It's good to be useful. It's everything to be useful.
It's better still to be useful among many. One of Freki's hands extends without thought as the others are chided, and there's barely a heartbeat before a scrap of cloth is pressed into his palm. The automatic nature has his teeth snapping happily again as he reaches in to wipe at a bit of a crusted leak.
Getting back into the swing will take a moment. The flow of work always takes a moment to find after ripples like this. And maybe, just maybe, that means little bit of other things can settle into a new, disrupted pattern.
There's hesitation in the way he glances back again, hands moving along in familiar patterns to begin taking off the chain. "--okay?"
She knows more. She's seen more. She could make all of them more Useful.
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Date: 2016-09-23 02:07 pm (UTC)And useful is the sensation as the Imperator crouching close gives a quiet hum. Useful gets something like a smile, brief and frantic in its own way but real even here among the shadows and slick, all flashing teeth and bubbling of delicate energy. It's good to be useful. It's everything to be useful.
It's better still to be useful among many. One of Freki's hands extends without thought as the others are chided, and there's barely a heartbeat before a scrap of cloth is pressed into his palm. The automatic nature has his teeth snapping happily again as he reaches in to wipe at a bit of a crusted leak.
Getting back into the swing will take a moment. The flow of work always takes a moment to find after ripples like this. And maybe, just maybe, that means little bit of other things can settle into a new, disrupted pattern.
There's hesitation in the way he glances back again, hands moving along in familiar patterns to begin taking off the chain. "--okay?"
She knows more. She's seen more. She could make all of them more Useful.