[Yea. Nikolai goes still, attention laser-focused on Archie, decidely not pulling his hand away.] He did this...??
[It is, right now, a blessing Nikolai doesn't have his ghost out. As it is, his free hand strays to where the pokeball's on his belt. It would be so, so easy to release the ghost, to set him on Archer.
But that means nothing, and his hand drops to fist at his side.
His voice drops to a tone he remembers his father using. Dangerous and calculating. He doesn't mean to use it around Archie, but-
Fuck. Archie means something to him. Something he'd kill to protect.]Archer did this?
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[Yea. Nikolai goes still, attention laser-focused on Archie, decidely not pulling his hand away.] He did this...??
[It is, right now, a blessing Nikolai doesn't have his ghost out. As it is, his free hand strays to where the pokeball's on his belt. It would be so, so easy to release the ghost, to set him on Archer.
But that means nothing, and his hand drops to fist at his side.
His voice drops to a tone he remembers his father using. Dangerous and calculating. He doesn't mean to use it around Archie, but-
Fuck. Archie means something to him. Something he'd kill to protect.] Archer did this?