07-28-2015, 06:51 PM
As the two Primes walked their way back to Nippur, the cold, unforgiving desert night began to fade into a chilling warmth whilst the sun rose at their backs. Shay, with the Stormtrooper Captain at his back, and Agnès with her hand on her mask. Breathing in it another time, Agnès soon got tired of the moist feeling of breathing into the cloth constantly, and figured Shay would want it back. She could admit however, as sinister as it looked, it did look quite nice. Or at least, that's what she imagined.
Remembering her hair was also still tied back, Agnès pulled down the mask on her face, since she was finally out of sight. She looked at Shay as he walked forward into the city of Nippur, her mouth beginning to speak.
"Shay, I believe these are yours, you may have them now since we're clear--" Once again interrupted by Shay's words, a bad habit of his, Agnès almost jumped a bit as he spoke so quickly, although in a tone that was lighter than she expected.
"Keep them, might come in handy again. Besides, you look nice with your hair pulled back. I might be biased though..." Shay finished, chuckling as he took off the hood of his outfit, raising his hand to the base of his scalp, pulling his own hair back, before putting it back in place with the ponytail holder he had in one of his pockets. Agnès smiled at how bright everything was seeming to be now that all the adrenaline from participating in an infiltration mission was out of her body.
"Very well, I'll keep note of that, my sincerest of thanks," Agnès replied after a short moment of silence, keeping her mask pulled down.
Both of them continued their walk, and at this moment, Shay definitely felt a great sense of peace within him as he went back over the mission they had completed. Well, almost completed, as they needed to get their target back to 'point A,' but other than that, they were good to go. Shay hadn't felt the satisfaction of going the extra mile to do what he thought was a step in the right direction. A chance at redeeming his darker, previous self.
Even Agnès, his only real associate here in the Omniverse, didn't know the lengths he went to do what he thought was right back then. Hell, Shay doubted Agnès would even trust a man that forced himself to kill his comrades to prevent their wrongdoings. Maybe he could have avoided all of this when both sides realized all that conflict was just a heap of bad misunderstandings, but Shay continued, because if there was one thing his previous childhood friend, Liam was right in saying, it was that it was much too late to walk away peacefully. At least, for people like them, in a conflict the one they were in.
Shay barely realized that the two of them were now in the sprawling city of Nippur at this moment, the ground beneath him definitely not reminding him of that fact. He was almost embarrassed to see how easily he got distracted by things. Agnès could already feel the weight of the looks of the roaming civilians of Nippur, seeing how the two are carrying off a Stormtrooper Captain, the only thing slowing them down being the condition of Shay's chest.
Cracking a smile at every single civilian in the town making way for the two Primes, Shay looked over to see Agnès quite distraught of that fact, knowing how she wasn't really used to this kind of attention. Wiping a bit of sweat off of his forehead, both of them continued to walk off to the main road leading to Gilgamesh's palace, a silent walk all the way there.
Finding themselves almost at the front door of the palace itself, Shay stopped for a moment, looking at Agnès.
"No turning back now. Wonder how Gilgamesh is going to react to this..." Shay wandered off in his thoughts, speaking both to himself and Agnès, her expression just becoming more and more uncertain.
"Well," Agnès began, gulping slightly, "only one way to find out."
The two guards still at the front door of the palace itself made way, wide-eyed to see one of their enemies being taken prisoner of what they also thought would be mere cannon fodder for New Babylon. With the doors opening before them, the two Primes would soon prove that they were much more than that.
Remembering her hair was also still tied back, Agnès pulled down the mask on her face, since she was finally out of sight. She looked at Shay as he walked forward into the city of Nippur, her mouth beginning to speak.
"Shay, I believe these are yours, you may have them now since we're clear--" Once again interrupted by Shay's words, a bad habit of his, Agnès almost jumped a bit as he spoke so quickly, although in a tone that was lighter than she expected.
"Keep them, might come in handy again. Besides, you look nice with your hair pulled back. I might be biased though..." Shay finished, chuckling as he took off the hood of his outfit, raising his hand to the base of his scalp, pulling his own hair back, before putting it back in place with the ponytail holder he had in one of his pockets. Agnès smiled at how bright everything was seeming to be now that all the adrenaline from participating in an infiltration mission was out of her body.
"Very well, I'll keep note of that, my sincerest of thanks," Agnès replied after a short moment of silence, keeping her mask pulled down.
Both of them continued their walk, and at this moment, Shay definitely felt a great sense of peace within him as he went back over the mission they had completed. Well, almost completed, as they needed to get their target back to 'point A,' but other than that, they were good to go. Shay hadn't felt the satisfaction of going the extra mile to do what he thought was a step in the right direction. A chance at redeeming his darker, previous self.
Even Agnès, his only real associate here in the Omniverse, didn't know the lengths he went to do what he thought was right back then. Hell, Shay doubted Agnès would even trust a man that forced himself to kill his comrades to prevent their wrongdoings. Maybe he could have avoided all of this when both sides realized all that conflict was just a heap of bad misunderstandings, but Shay continued, because if there was one thing his previous childhood friend, Liam was right in saying, it was that it was much too late to walk away peacefully. At least, for people like them, in a conflict the one they were in.
Shay barely realized that the two of them were now in the sprawling city of Nippur at this moment, the ground beneath him definitely not reminding him of that fact. He was almost embarrassed to see how easily he got distracted by things. Agnès could already feel the weight of the looks of the roaming civilians of Nippur, seeing how the two are carrying off a Stormtrooper Captain, the only thing slowing them down being the condition of Shay's chest.
Cracking a smile at every single civilian in the town making way for the two Primes, Shay looked over to see Agnès quite distraught of that fact, knowing how she wasn't really used to this kind of attention. Wiping a bit of sweat off of his forehead, both of them continued to walk off to the main road leading to Gilgamesh's palace, a silent walk all the way there.
Finding themselves almost at the front door of the palace itself, Shay stopped for a moment, looking at Agnès.
"No turning back now. Wonder how Gilgamesh is going to react to this..." Shay wandered off in his thoughts, speaking both to himself and Agnès, her expression just becoming more and more uncertain.
"Well," Agnès began, gulping slightly, "only one way to find out."
The two guards still at the front door of the palace itself made way, wide-eyed to see one of their enemies being taken prisoner of what they also thought would be mere cannon fodder for New Babylon. With the doors opening before them, the two Primes would soon prove that they were much more than that.
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"The air is still, and I am a hunter."