Ridiculously, stupidly, the first thing that comes to his mind is Yifu is going to be angry somebody knows, even though it's taking his sluggish brain a few seconds to connect the dots with how or why Kevin has suddenly realised that Scorpion the cat and Xie the man are one and the same.
He gropes for the blade, seizing it from the floor and- and what? He can't attack, it's like his feet are frozen to the floor. Or knees, more accurately, because he's still on them. He can't make a move to hurt Kevin and he knows it, knows why even if he doesn't want to believe it. He'd have to rip the connection apart first, and he knows that's possible but he doesn't know how. Even if he did, from what he's heard about it the agony of a familiar transfer is child's play compared to the pain of trying to break away from a witch without the ritual.
"No..." he whispers softly as the reality of the situation slowly becomes inescapable "No. Why? What the fuck?" The whisper almost becomes a shout - almost, because he doesn't want to draw anybody's attention, doesn't want to bring people from anywhere else in the house to investigate, to risk Yifu... except there's no way Yifu doesn't know. He swears again, a string of expletives in Mandarin before switching back to English.
"He's going to kill you." He's going to kill both of them, probably.
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Date: 2023-10-15 11:10 am (UTC)Ridiculously, stupidly, the first thing that comes to his mind is Yifu is going to be angry somebody knows, even though it's taking his sluggish brain a few seconds to connect the dots with how or why Kevin has suddenly realised that Scorpion the cat and Xie the man are one and the same.
He gropes for the blade, seizing it from the floor and- and what? He can't attack, it's like his feet are frozen to the floor. Or knees, more accurately, because he's still on them. He can't make a move to hurt Kevin and he knows it, knows why even if he doesn't want to believe it. He'd have to rip the connection apart first, and he knows that's possible but he doesn't know how. Even if he did, from what he's heard about it the agony of a familiar transfer is child's play compared to the pain of trying to break away from a witch without the ritual.
"No..." he whispers softly as the reality of the situation slowly becomes inescapable "No. Why? What the fuck?" The whisper almost becomes a shout - almost, because he doesn't want to draw anybody's attention, doesn't want to bring people from anywhere else in the house to investigate, to risk Yifu... except there's no way Yifu doesn't know. He swears again, a string of expletives in Mandarin before switching back to English.
"He's going to kill you." He's going to kill both of them, probably.