Her eyes are red once more, and the memory snaps into focus. The only difference is that now there is no one there. No Mindfang, no Honorable tyranny, no scores of lowbloods to slip the noose around her neck. It is just her and Karkat and a court block that's a few hundred feet high.
"Fair enough," she says, inhaling and reaching out. It's easier to manipulate this, to remember the smell of her cane and the feel of it in her hand. It drops into her waiting palm and she closes her hand around it and resists the urge to hold it to her chest. Resists the urge to remind herself that Pyralspite is alone now. He's a big dragon. He can take care of himself.
"We are leaving. Now."
Redglare walks towards him with clipped steps, tense and uneasy. She reaches up and pulls the noose off her neck and tosses it into the abyss before reaching out to Karkat with a lightly teal-stained and ungloved hand.
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"Fair enough," she says, inhaling and reaching out. It's easier to manipulate this, to remember the smell of her cane and the feel of it in her hand. It drops into her waiting palm and she closes her hand around it and resists the urge to hold it to her chest. Resists the urge to remind herself that Pyralspite is alone now. He's a big dragon. He can take care of himself.
"We are leaving. Now."
Redglare walks towards him with clipped steps, tense and uneasy. She reaches up and pulls the noose off her neck and tosses it into the abyss before reaching out to Karkat with a lightly teal-stained and ungloved hand.