"No... No," Koschei said softly, looking up at Kurt, raising a hand to scrub at his eyes. "I mean, it's different. You don't usually feel the Time Vortex radiating out of a person who clearly isn't about to crumble into cosmic dust. But it's not bad or anything. Just curious."
Of course, Koschei had never had the desire to run away from it.
"It's just... They want me to hurt you. And I don't want to. And they don't like when I don't listen."