Barely appropriate use of joint locks
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Privileged, polyamorous trans ingenue Emile Devigne is just starting at Europa University when he meets Cylus Keene, a young man with a shadowed past trying to secure a better future for himself and his twin.
"Imagine you are a cloud in the Jovian atmosphere, surrounded by ceaseless storms and shifting pressures..." Cylus wove slow-building words through the soft, rhythmic clicks of the tacglass knife as it folded and unfolded. His other hand gripped Emile's shoulder, warm against his palm. "Spiraling... swirling... twisting and turning... at the mercy of the winds around you." His blade sped faster; a whirlwind of glass to cover rising panic. Why had he chosen this analogy? Everything he knew about Jupiter's atmosphere he'd learned less than 48 hours ago. But he was in it now; nothing for it but to keep voice and blade in motion. "Cyclones, jet streams, ceaseless circulation..."
Emile's body relaxed. A glance at the rest of his audience found their eyes wide; falling, finally, under his spell.
In an alchemic instant, Cylie's panic transmuted into confidence: the unshakeable certainty that had bluffed him out from gunpoint more than once.
He had this. He had everything he needed right here.
Series
- Part 1 of Europa University