Max grinned at Macaque. He didn't say anything as Cole interrupted. He shrugged and gently reached up to try and touch that cheek fur with a gloved finger.
"You can always just kiss me to show your own gratitude. Seems Cole would prefer you get something good from it. Perhaps...information on how to better help Cole in his times of need? That's worth a kiss, yes?"
He paused for another drag of his cigarette.
"It did put you right back into a space of her control, yes. I'd have changed that if possible but I couldn't. In the grand scheme of things, you being here is for the best. Not for you but for someone who needs your help. Someone's whose death count already far exceeds yours, Cole." He rolled his shoulders and held up his free hand. Large mirror shards appeared floating above his palm. The reflections didn't show their surroundings but instead moments in Cole's life.
The largest was him in some kind of pod, frozen and asleep. The smaller ones showed him back to back with Tobias in a raging storm. Bug infested creatures fell to lightning, wind, and Tobias's bullets. Another showed Cole and others wrapped in fleshy cocoons as a boy with a broken sharp baseball bat cut them loose, and another showed Cole on the floor of a van, lights on but no one home, and other memories. All playing out in real time.
"I was able to infiltrate the Time Keeper and steal your timeline before they could destroy it. Yours and Xeo's. Stole a few others too. And when I was able, I inserted you right back into the timeline." The mirror shards vanished in a flash of green light. Cole could regain two points of glamour from it as it just radiated pure wyrd and several emotions.
"She took advantage when she decided you could use a new functionality. With me returning you to existence, and your previous other death, it made you a prime candidate for your current Kith. Which is why now you can alter yourself. Become stronger at the cost of being less composed. Become smarter by slowing yourself down. That sort of thing. You're more fluid now. More adaptable."
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"You can always just kiss me to show your own gratitude. Seems Cole would prefer you get something good from it. Perhaps...information on how to better help Cole in his times of need? That's worth a kiss, yes?"
He paused for another drag of his cigarette.
"It did put you right back into a space of her control, yes. I'd have changed that if possible but I couldn't. In the grand scheme of things, you being here is for the best. Not for you but for someone who needs your help. Someone's whose death count already far exceeds yours, Cole." He rolled his shoulders and held up his free hand. Large mirror shards appeared floating above his palm. The reflections didn't show their surroundings but instead moments in Cole's life.
The largest was him in some kind of pod, frozen and asleep. The smaller ones showed him back to back with Tobias in a raging storm. Bug infested creatures fell to lightning, wind, and Tobias's bullets. Another showed Cole and others wrapped in fleshy cocoons as a boy with a broken sharp baseball bat cut them loose, and another showed Cole on the floor of a van, lights on but no one home, and other memories. All playing out in real time.
"I was able to infiltrate the Time Keeper and steal your timeline before they could destroy it. Yours and Xeo's. Stole a few others too. And when I was able, I inserted you right back into the timeline." The mirror shards vanished in a flash of green light. Cole could regain two points of glamour from it as it just radiated pure wyrd and several emotions.
"She took advantage when she decided you could use a new functionality. With me returning you to existence, and your previous other death, it made you a prime candidate for your current Kith. Which is why now you can alter yourself. Become stronger at the cost of being less composed. Become smarter by slowing yourself down. That sort of thing. You're more fluid now. More adaptable."