the dark and the deep have no one

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)

M/M | for CynicalRuins | 100 words | 2022-10-07 | the lamb | AO3

Gray (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)/Triton (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Gray (Xenoblade Chronicles 3), Triton (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

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

"Well, it's not often we get City folk around here. Have I done something to make ye angry?"

That's a colonist-consul line, Gray thought to himself, but didn't say. What'd be the point? Just another wacked Moebius geezer.

"Was just on Daedal Isle. Didn't want to risk anyone following me. Made myself apparent."

Again, guardedness: his natural phrasing would have been that he "didn't feel like" having such a thing happen, but he wasn't skirting friendly fire.

Courting, rather. When Triton slapped him on the back, he didn't shrug fast.

"Forthrightness! I like that in a man."

Bonza. Me too.