#kostya does this child seem familiar. like a mirror maybe.

[badnikbreaker]

@gonchayas : ❝  wait,  stop you’re bleeding.  ❞ / for kit

"O - Oh!" Oh, they are! They didn't even feel it, so used to pain that new hurts don't register. A hand presses to their chest and comes back slick and red and there's still no aching. Kit smiles, briefly, then frowns, expression twisting into something frightened. Oh. Oh, no, he — "Oh! I'm s - sorry, sir! I promise, i - it's nothing!"

Surge is far from him. Konstantyn is strong. THAT MAKES KONSTANTYN GOD, AND KIT KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAN'T SERVE GOD.

"Please don't be angry! I can keep serving you, no matter my wounds! I can't be killed, so d - don't worry about me!" Not worry about me as in CARE FOR ME, BE CONCERNED FOR ME — worry about me as in DOUBT MY ABILITY TO FIGHT FOR YOU, THROW ME ASIDE OR HURT ME BECAUSE I'M TOO DAMAGED TO BE OF USE. His hands raise / he smiles, weak and trembling / a bloodthirsty monster and a child terrified of harm. A TOOL MEANT FOR KILLING, AND A LITTLE BOY.

Maybe it's familiar. Maybe it's not. Kit curls into themself, just barely. Smaller, like they can disappear that way. A broken tool is useless. KONSTANTYN CAN'T THINK KIT'S BROKEN. "I'm still a v - very effective fighter, even wounded, so — I can still be o - of use, I promise!"