( and off to the side, the doppelganger scoffs with disgust. the jet black blood drenching the white athletic top confirms the suspicion she'd had earlier in the day after encountering a girl with a strange bracelet. the other version of her really had undergone experimentation to become a nightblood and somewhat miraculously it'd worked. she'd stopped the trials after emori'd withered and burned in front of them, written it off as a lost cause...
huh.
well, there's no way to fake that feature about her in the coming days, so clarke is going to have to improvise and can already feel the wheels churning. she waits until the pool of blood around the body reaches that certain diameter where one knows there's no coming back from before stepping forward, avoiding the expansion with careful footsteps but bending down to dip her fingertips into the ink like liquid. it's cooled already with exposure to the night air, and clarke rubs the blood between thumb and forefinger before — lightly dabbing it behind each of her ears.
she sighs, then turns towards natsuno smiling. ) Thank you, ( she half-sings, half-coos. it's praise and gratitude that run dangerously close to the vibe of patting someone's head and saying good boy, but also — where would she be right now without him? )
2/2
huh.
well, there's no way to fake that feature about her in the coming days, so clarke is going to have to improvise and can already feel the wheels churning. she waits until the pool of blood around the body reaches that certain diameter where one knows there's no coming back from before stepping forward, avoiding the expansion with careful footsteps but bending down to dip her fingertips into the ink like liquid. it's cooled already with exposure to the night air, and clarke rubs the blood between thumb and forefinger before — lightly dabbing it behind each of her ears.
she sighs, then turns towards natsuno smiling. ) Thank you, ( she half-sings, half-coos. it's praise and gratitude that run dangerously close to the vibe of patting someone's head and saying good boy, but also — where would she be right now without him? )
Now we should probably put the body somewhere...