[Sudden and unexpected, the appearance of someone else, someone who shouldn't be here, who doesn't belong but--
--but. The command comes, and Giovanni moves to obey it, ducks behind the older body with movements quick and almost desperate. And then the person who shouldn't be here begins to fall. Giovanni doesn't catch him, instead he scuttles back, trips, lands on ass and palms against the blood-slicked ground and when the vines begin to twist and writhe he lets out a startled sound of terror, curls in on himself with arms over his head and body shaking because he doesn't know what this is. What it means.
nobody knows ;;
--but. The command comes, and Giovanni moves to obey it, ducks behind the older body with movements quick and almost desperate. And then the person who shouldn't be here begins to fall. Giovanni doesn't catch him, instead he scuttles back, trips, lands on ass and palms against the blood-slicked ground and when the vines begin to twist and writhe he lets out a startled sound of terror, curls in on himself with arms over his head and body shaking because he doesn't know what this is. What it means.
Moreso than ever before, he's afraid.]