[The knife disappeared from his hand before Ardyn could pull it out and throw it again, feeling a very sharp very real very familiarpain. Siegfried would vanish just the same way if and when it left Xander's hands; they were done, it was over, he couldn't let them get a hold of that sword on top of everything else.]
[Ardyn snapped something in a dialect of Lucian so archaic one likely only saw it in scientific classifications of garula and chocobos, saying things no one would ever hear in a professional capacity.]
['Ardyn Lucis Caelum is to be executed as-']
[No, nononono focus, Junpei and Yuuri and Jane and Choromatsu had gotten away, they'd tell the others, they'd come back and-]
[strangely, that was almost a reassuring thing as the last thought he had while still conscious.]
no subject
[Ardyn snapped something in a dialect of Lucian so archaic one likely only saw it in scientific classifications of garula and chocobos, saying things no one would ever hear in a professional capacity.]
['Ardyn Lucis Caelum is to be executed as-']
[No, nononono focus, Junpei and Yuuri and Jane and Choromatsu had gotten away, they'd tell the others, they'd come back and-]
[strangely, that was almost a reassuring thing as the last thought he had while still conscious.]