[Unlike the werewolf, it's easy for the shadow to look away at his feet. Shame makes it easy.]
He's teaching his students to keep time with only their own heads. Only- the moon shouldn't be here.
[He turns the blue lights of his eyes upward and the moon disappears, the squat, scarred face of the waiting man falling into darkness.]
That was the challenge of it. No moon to keep time by. It was the first time most of those boys had been left in the dark on their own, at least in this way. Not the last. They'll have to wait alone each night until they get it right.
Very different from your Maiza, isn't he? But just as effective, I think. You change at will quite well, as I've seen.
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[Unlike the werewolf, it's easy for the shadow to look away at his feet. Shame makes it easy.]
He's teaching his students to keep time with only their own heads. Only- the moon shouldn't be here.
[He turns the blue lights of his eyes upward and the moon disappears, the squat, scarred face of the waiting man falling into darkness.]
That was the challenge of it. No moon to keep time by. It was the first time most of those boys had been left in the dark on their own, at least in this way. Not the last. They'll have to wait alone each night until they get it right.
Very different from your Maiza, isn't he? But just as effective, I think. You change at will quite well, as I've seen.