#this can work in my all-encompassing AU verse! :) or we can do something with arcane -- no big

[ta1is]

❛ your heart is beating so fast right now. ❜

don’t mind the entity with a seeming connection to death itself. (:

@relentlessgrief || meme

“Can't imagine why.” The quip came easily—or as easily as anything came through gritted teeth and on labored breath. Jayce's attention had since wandered from that peculiar presence in front of him, as if looking away would jostle his brain back to a reality where that couldn't exist. He'd yet to convince himself his mind wasn't just playing tricks . . . or if not his mind, then some other power he'd pissed off (again) and was hellbent on making sure he remembered it.

His weight rested against the nearest tree, legs awkwardly shuffling to find some semblance of balance while he took in his surroundings and, eventually, that stranger still there and still impossible. Confusion wrote itself in the lines across his brow, in the way his expression hardened to something more guarded as he let the image truly sink in. ��I'll take it over the alternative,” Jayce concluded, tone almost suggesting he meant to convince the entity against claiming him just yet—

“What—” His sentence cut off with a coupling of an exhale and growl. He made a second attempt: “Who are you?”