[The benefit of being able to use thought-speak naturally is Ax doesn't have to wait until he's fully demorphed to chastise Marco. Which he does, as soon as he sees the wine bottle for what it is.]
<You've been drinking alcohol.>
[It's not a question. This isn't the first time Ax has arrived late to Marco's one-person house party. And every time he's radiated the same disapproval.
He knows that whatever effects alcohol has on humans will go away once Marco morphs. And if he's honest, his own sense of self-preservation has been diminished for the same reason, though in manifests in different ways. But there's still something disquieting about it. Ax doesn't know how to deal with this new status quo of everybody seeming about to crumble without the war to support them, of nobody knowing how to look each other in the eye anymore.
Except for him and Marco.
He finishes demorphing and keeps his distance, rather than accepting Marco's clear invitation. Then he waits, silently.]
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<You've been drinking alcohol.>
[It's not a question. This isn't the first time Ax has arrived late to Marco's one-person house party. And every time he's radiated the same disapproval.
He knows that whatever effects alcohol has on humans will go away once Marco morphs. And if he's honest, his own sense of self-preservation has been diminished for the same reason, though in manifests in different ways. But there's still something disquieting about it. Ax doesn't know how to deal with this new status quo of everybody seeming about to crumble without the war to support them, of nobody knowing how to look each other in the eye anymore.
Except for him and Marco.
He finishes demorphing and keeps his distance, rather than accepting Marco's clear invitation. Then he waits, silently.]