[The creature doesn't halt its charge, and Hector leaps out of the way, acting more on prey instinct than any conscious thought. The Nuckelavee rocks as Saori slams into it, colliding into a tree and sending an avalanche of snow cascading from the branches above.]
But- [He protests, too shocked to really process. It... really wants to kill him? Kill him? Monsters don't want to kill Hector. He's a mixture of dumbfounded and offended. Monsters should like him!
He scrambles out of the snow and sees the creature's fiery eye sweep the ground and fix on him. It shrieks. He shrinks back into the snow.]
no subject
But- [He protests, too shocked to really process. It... really wants to kill him? Kill him? Monsters don't want to kill Hector. He's a mixture of dumbfounded and offended. Monsters should like him!
He scrambles out of the snow and sees the creature's fiery eye sweep the ground and fix on him. It shrieks. He shrinks back into the snow.]
Why won't it listen?