Re: [Carnival - Adult]
She pressed her fingers to his lips, unworried about the viscera clinging to her fingertips and the space beneath her fingernails. As soon as he mentioned the police, she shook her head quickly, the fog of shock clearing, and of course he couldn't go. The wounds on him, they were from weapons, from altercations, and the police would ask and ask and ask. She wondered, but it was only briefly and of a moment, why she couldn't see anything about his wounds, his past, his future. Even this moment was just what it was, and him bleeding all over crackling grass gone limp with his blood. But it was only a moment, and she nodded her agreement. "Mais oui bien sûr," in unthinking French. Of course, they couldn't go to the police.
She knew the demon. She knew him from a road in the dark, blues playing in the distance and soul sold. She knew, though she didn't remember, and that was normal for her. Things understood, but not remembered, and she wasn't thinking about how her lover would react to such a revelation. His own black eyes made the confession a safe one, and she thought nothing beyond that. "There are wards in places," she told him, knowing of the music shop and the ward placed there. "One of them might be affecting you." She thought not of the horn upon her door, because he was human.
He was human.
A man in the woods. A man in the woods. "Matt?" she asked, finally, after the vision hit like a wave, and she nodded. "I can take you? Allow me to help you there? I know him." she said, hand moving to his cheek and his own blood smeared there. They were not confidants, she and the uncommunicative veterinarian, but nearly, and Matt was a client, one who sat and talked of ballet shoes and lost memories, but who never did more than that. But Rory was trying to push himself to standing, and he was failing, oui? She shook her head again.
"Non. Non. Remain here. I will bring him, oui? I will bring him to you. It will be faster, and you'll bleed less." She considered helping him to her place, but even that seemed far, and it was only feet and feet away.