[ Lucius had anticipated a bowed head and a meek shake. What he receives instead is at once far bolder and far more submissive. A seductive thought curls through Lucius' mind—that in this moment, Eridanus' past is his to claim just as well as his future. ]
Just what do you think it means to be the Eternal's pet, I wonder?
[ He laughs, another harsh and mocking sound—but, even more so than before, he doesn't afford Eridanus the chance to answer. Lucius pins his bottom jaw still between the vice of his fingers and the heel of his palm, and within Eridanus' mouth, he toys with his tongue the way a cat toys with a mouse, pushing it here and there as nothing more than a limp piece of meat.
In the end, though, he does withdraw it. Slick with spit, instead, Lucius' rests its pad over this boy's lips. ]
Ah, but what manner of toy have I acquired?
[ There is only so long he will be able to keep up the charade of not knowing his name—and more than that, he wonders who this Eridanus is. ]
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Just what do you think it means to be the Eternal's pet, I wonder?
[ He laughs, another harsh and mocking sound—but, even more so than before, he doesn't afford Eridanus the chance to answer. Lucius pins his bottom jaw still between the vice of his fingers and the heel of his palm, and within Eridanus' mouth, he toys with his tongue the way a cat toys with a mouse, pushing it here and there as nothing more than a limp piece of meat.
In the end, though, he does withdraw it. Slick with spit, instead, Lucius' rests its pad over this boy's lips. ]
Ah, but what manner of toy have I acquired?
[ There is only so long he will be able to keep up the charade of not knowing his name—and more than that, he wonders who this Eridanus is. ]