[ Maya just... stares. Watching the entire scene wide-eyed and open-mouthed.
Peter is a demon. The realization hits her before the bandit even utters the word.
Peter is a demon. It explains the power she sensed in him, and the ease with which he used the spells from her book.
Peter is a godsdamned demon. But it does not explain why he'd shown no signs of it before. Or why her own powers vanished in the face of his. How could he have possibly gone all this time without--
The amulet. Of course. It stood to reason that his mother would want to keep him safe, and the safest place for a demon (or half-demon? Was his mother even human at all?) to be was hidden. Better for her little boy to live a normal life.
The amulet was a suppressor, and the strange heaviness in her limbs was normal human fatigue. Her prolonged contact with it must have altered the targeting of the suppression spell- a spell that a demon wouldn't be able to sense.
She glances down at Peter's pack, and very gingerly fishes the amulet from the pocket where she placed it. She keeps it hidden in the palm of her hand as she very slowly and gingerly approaches him. She's vulnerable, and what she just saw him do? That was old, that was powerful. That was scary. ]
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Peter is a demon. The realization hits her before the bandit even utters the word.
Peter is a demon. It explains the power she sensed in him, and the ease with which he used the spells from her book.
Peter is a godsdamned demon. But it does not explain why he'd shown no signs of it before. Or why her own powers vanished in the face of his. How could he have possibly gone all this time without--
The amulet. Of course. It stood to reason that his mother would want to keep him safe, and the safest place for a demon (or half-demon? Was his mother even human at all?) to be was hidden. Better for her little boy to live a normal life.
The amulet was a suppressor, and the strange heaviness in her limbs was normal human fatigue. Her prolonged contact with it must have altered the targeting of the suppression spell- a spell that a demon wouldn't be able to sense.
She glances down at Peter's pack, and very gingerly fishes the amulet from the pocket where she placed it. She keeps it hidden in the palm of her hand as she very slowly and gingerly approaches him. She's vulnerable, and what she just saw him do? That was old, that was powerful. That was scary. ]
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