[ Orion repeated the comment with a flash of teeth that superficially appeared to be a smile. What was it humans liked to say about the road to hell being paved with the best intentions? Both Shockwave and himself were never in want of 'best intentions.'
At the last second, Orion jerked his arm away from before Shockwave could find purchase on the artificial fabric. It was then he noticed he kept glancing down at Shockwave's hands; there were two perfectly functional hands where he had become so accustomed to just the one. The horrors those hands could construct and unleash on sentient life were no stranger to Orion, and because of this he balked all the more at allowing Shockwave to stand so close. To touch him with those hands.
He looked down at Shockwave, the thought already long formed in the back of his mind that deep down that smiling face hid the capacity to carry out all those atrocities without needing Proteus and the Institute's skullduggery to tear Shockwave out and stuff a monster in its place. It was the same Shockwave he remembered after all these years that secured Zeta the Primacy, after all. The thought of Zeta cast a cold, dispassionate look to Orion's features before he looked back down at their reflections still dancing on the water. ]
Four [ Orion said quietly, forging any mention of the long-dismantled Institute ] Four million years.
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[ Orion repeated the comment with a flash of teeth that superficially appeared to be a smile. What was it humans liked to say about the road to hell being paved with the best intentions? Both Shockwave and himself were never in want of 'best intentions.'
At the last second, Orion jerked his arm away from before Shockwave could find purchase on the artificial fabric. It was then he noticed he kept glancing down at Shockwave's hands; there were two perfectly functional hands where he had become so accustomed to just the one. The horrors those hands could construct and unleash on sentient life were no stranger to Orion, and because of this he balked all the more at allowing Shockwave to stand so close. To touch him with those hands.
He looked down at Shockwave, the thought already long formed in the back of his mind that deep down that smiling face hid the capacity to carry out all those atrocities without needing Proteus and the Institute's skullduggery to tear Shockwave out and stuff a monster in its place. It was the same Shockwave he remembered after all these years that secured Zeta the Primacy, after all. The thought of Zeta cast a cold, dispassionate look to Orion's features before he looked back down at their reflections still dancing on the water. ]
Four [ Orion said quietly, forging any mention of the long-dismantled Institute ] Four million years.