[ So it is just going to be like this now. Drink blood or feel like his skeleton is trying to remove itself from the rest of his body.
He Just sits there and takes deep, measured breath. Trying to remember what he was taught in those non optional "Wellness Meetings" at Hyperion where they made you learn how to do quick meditation when your body felt like it was failing from being overworked.
It doesn't work as intended, he doesn't need oxygen to live anymore or anything, but it still has the desired effect: Rhys just concentrating on something steady and not thinking about how awful he's feeling. He gets into it enough that it doesn't feel like much time had passed between closing his eyes and cracking them open again at Jacks voice.
Rhys smells it before he sees it, the rich and coppery scent of fresh blood, causing him to immediately perk up. So fixated on the smell he doesn't even come up with some sarcastic or snide response, or notice that his fangs have extended. ]
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Date: 2021-09-23 03:55 am (UTC)[ So it is just going to be like this now. Drink blood or feel like his skeleton is trying to remove itself from the rest of his body.
He Just sits there and takes deep, measured breath. Trying to remember what he was taught in those non optional "Wellness Meetings" at Hyperion where they made you learn how to do quick meditation when your body felt like it was failing from being overworked.
It doesn't work as intended, he doesn't need oxygen to live anymore or anything, but it still has the desired effect: Rhys just concentrating on something steady and not thinking about how awful he's feeling. He gets into it enough that it doesn't feel like much time had passed between closing his eyes and cracking them open again at Jacks voice.
Rhys smells it before he sees it, the rich and coppery scent of fresh blood, causing him to immediately perk up. So fixated on the smell he doesn't even come up with some sarcastic or snide response, or notice that his fangs have extended. ]