[Basil's floor is going to need a deep cleaning after all of this, and this is honestly not even the worst its seen after how he changed violently in here. It's the furthest thing from his mind currently as he sits next to Max, watching her as she eats her fill. It almost feels like a dream, like he's watching this happen from outside his body. Everything that happens in Ryslig is so absurd as to be unbelievable, yet at this point he's almost certain he's seen and been through it all. The trauma runs deep between them both, and he figures that if it ever went any deeper, they'd simply break.
At some later point, Basil will ask someone from the Palazzo to help break down the remainder of the corpse they couldn't finish, because between them there's still roughly a quarter of body mass left in one of Basil's many tunnels, mercifully kept dry from the elements and hidden from wild animals who could make their own meal of it. For now, his focus is on Max as she eats until her body finally seems to be slowly starting to get back to normal. Whatever counts as "normal" now, anyway.
Her words seem trivial, in the wake of things. Basil just sort of looks at her with his eyes half closed, yet still managing to seem so large in the darkness.]
I...I w-wasn't going to let anything happen to you.
[Everything is going to be okay.]
You're...you're one of my best friends. I can't lose you.
cw: extreme gore/cannibalism/disassociation
At some later point, Basil will ask someone from the Palazzo to help break down the remainder of the corpse they couldn't finish, because between them there's still roughly a quarter of body mass left in one of Basil's many tunnels, mercifully kept dry from the elements and hidden from wild animals who could make their own meal of it. For now, his focus is on Max as she eats until her body finally seems to be slowly starting to get back to normal. Whatever counts as "normal" now, anyway.
Her words seem trivial, in the wake of things. Basil just sort of looks at her with his eyes half closed, yet still managing to seem so large in the darkness.]
I...I w-wasn't going to let anything happen to you.
[Everything is going to be okay.]
You're...you're one of my best friends. I can't lose you.
[He's lost everyone else. He can't do it again.]