[ The sullenness is not flattering, but Gregor, with the attuned sense of someone who has a clear understanding of who the big fish in the room is at all times, is no longer really thinking about him. He is acutely aware that he has little to defend himself with-- nothing, actually, apart from the cloak of his dignity and what message he can get out with telepathy, if Lucifer doesn't have some way of getting rid of that. Or does but decides not to, in order to torment others by extension.
Something Gregor has no intention of letting happen if he can at all help it. This was his choice, and moreover, he asks people to suffer for him every damn day he's been alive. He cannot expect that of his subjects if he's not willing to do it for them in reverse. He's always wanted to run 'real risk'-- well, here it is. He must live up to it.
He remains still, automatically glances in the rearview mirror to spot him, but of course it's not angled the right way and he's left instead feeling particularly vulnerable and helpless but refusing to turn around. Dignity. He won't have that for long; might as well make use of it while he can. ]
You owe no apology for being an unsatisfactory tool of self-interested cruelty.
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Something Gregor has no intention of letting happen if he can at all help it. This was his choice, and moreover, he asks people to suffer for him every damn day he's been alive. He cannot expect that of his subjects if he's not willing to do it for them in reverse. He's always wanted to run 'real risk'-- well, here it is. He must live up to it.
He remains still, automatically glances in the rearview mirror to spot him, but of course it's not angled the right way and he's left instead feeling particularly vulnerable and helpless but refusing to turn around. Dignity. He won't have that for long; might as well make use of it while he can. ]
You owe no apology for being an unsatisfactory tool of self-interested cruelty.