[He presses her again, tucking her head under his chin, offering what quiet comfort he can.
In another world and another time, he suspects he might have become Dean's quarry, though a hard one to take down. In that same time and place, he might have enjoyed toying with Dean, as a cat might with an especially feisty mouse. But here, this place has changed many for good, himself included. In this place, they might have hunted side by side. But fate plays with Sleepers like a cosmic cat.
He can't help the hint of eyeshine ticking through his eyes, unbidden. Must that cosmic cat play with this one whom he finds himself deciding to protect? He wonders if someone as bluff and cocky as Dean sensed something like this, in Ariadne's presence.]
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In another world and another time, he suspects he might have become Dean's quarry, though a hard one to take down. In that same time and place, he might have enjoyed toying with Dean, as a cat might with an especially feisty mouse. But here, this place has changed many for good, himself included. In this place, they might have hunted side by side. But fate plays with Sleepers like a cosmic cat.
He can't help the hint of eyeshine ticking through his eyes, unbidden. Must that cosmic cat play with this one whom he finds himself deciding to protect? He wonders if someone as bluff and cocky as Dean sensed something like this, in Ariadne's presence.]