#[miraak vc] If you wanna play like that FINE. Stupid kid

[bendwill]

"no! i'm opening it! fuck off, grandpa!"

𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜. still open!

THIS WAS EXACTLY WHY HE DIDN'T TRY TO HELP PEOPLE. Not that he was intending on helping here. Truthfully, he just wanted the book. Miraak had delved into its secrets before — the book led to another wing of Apocrypha, separate from the one they were in currently. The only short-cut there, as it happened.

He had an endless amount of time to traverse there the hard way. The stranger didn't know that, though — didn't need to know that, or where the book led, what he planned to do there. It was none of his business.

Behind a bronze mask, the Champion's expression twists in a scowl. He was already coiling like a serpent poised to lunge in the instance the Black Book was opened. As long as he made contact when runes solidified, it would take both of them.

“You don't even know where it will take you, mal kul.”