the carpet crawlers heed their callers

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenogears (Video Game), Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

M/M | for northerncave, rhythmshock | 100 words | 2023-02-01 | the lamb | AO3

Ricardo "Rico" Banderas/Minochi | Cole | Minoth

Ricardo "Rico" Banderas, Minochi | Cole | Minoth

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel


"And you never think about leaving?"

"Hmph. Do you?"

Every question just bred another pointed back. Minoth knew this, knew it was the only safe way to conversation right now - get too quiet and people get suspicious, so you have to take your banter at a middling volume - and knew that leaving involved...a very significant bust.

It ate at him, though. It couldn't but. Nobody battled like Rico. Nobody was as powerful. Nobody was as quiet, as dangerously deep.

Rico was like him, except that Rico never, not never, bothered being a nice guy. And that made Minoth...soft.