feral kou AUs for shutsdown

[miraculess]

AND AGAIN :')

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[shutsdown]

I'll pass. What do you want?

[miraculess]

[ grits her teeth and glares balefully ]

[shutsdown]

You've already proven you can speak. Tell me what you came here for.

[miraculess]

No.

[shutsdown]

Yes.

[miraculess]

[ growls— or starts to, rather, and then ends up coughing and has to put her head down ]

...doesn't matter.

[shutsdown]

Does too. My trap didn't cause internal bleeding, either. Were you seeking shelter?

[miraculess]

[ into the floor ]

No.

[shutsdown]

You'd be a poor assassin... Thieving, then.

[miraculess]

[ shame somehow still has the ability to both blindside and blind her; she's snarled and thrown herself sideways against the chains again before she can try for any kind of rationality. the familiar haze of unthinking rage is right there; the only thing keeping her from gladly accepting the excuse to stop thinking is the exhaustion making her want to curl up and cry and the fact that it'll make her look no better than a trapped animal. ]

[shutsdown]

Well, something like that is acceptable. Look at me?

[miraculess]

[ what if she mashes her face into the floor where he can't actually see her start angry crying instead, though ]

[shutsdown]

[He still knows, though.]

How were you poisoned?

[miraculess]

I drank it.

[ congratulations, she's upset enough for some straight answers ]

[shutsdown]

I see.

[Taking that pretty much in stride.]

I'm not seeing the logic between attempted suicide and breaking into a bookshop.

[miraculess]

...

I just wanted something else to think about.

[shutsdown]

[Goes quiet. Then... walks away.]

[miraculess]

[ the fight has officially gone out if her; she doesn't even protest being left there bound aside from a suspiciously sob-sounding hiccup. ]

[shutsdown]

[It's around thirty minutes before he comes down the stairs again, balancing a pile of books and two cups of tea.]

[miraculess]

[ again, it takes a moment for her to lift her head to blearily regard him. the sight of the books throws her off badly enough that she ends up staring in blank confusion for several seconds before remembering to be suspicious ]

[shutsdown]

[He carefully sets the whole pile of things next to her then snaps, the chains slithering into nothingness.

His glamour is down, if she's in any state to notice.]

[miraculess]

[ maybe after she's done hurting herself in her confusion. the instant she registers those chains are gone she jolts up to her hands and knees with a spectacularly noisy mechanical grind— and then has to hang there, panting, as her muscles abruptly go to water. ]

Wh— ?

[shutsdown]

You wanted something to read, right? As the owner of a book shop, I can only support that.

[Teasip]

[miraculess]

[ why are you like this

VISIBLY CONSIDERING THROWING HERSELF AT HIM, HER CURRENT STATUS AS A LIMP NOODLE BE DAMNED

croaking ]

...what in Hell is wrong with you.

[shutsdown]

A very long list, I'm afraid.

[Taps the book pile]

I don't know what genre you like, so I chose a few of my favorites.