[It's a little hard to follow welcome exposition when your ass is in chains (literally), two of your mouths are full of someone else's mana (this is why you don't go around putting random shit from the ground into your mouth?!), and you have something small and skittery and potentially deadly crawling around on your head. In your fur.
And it's not like Nora ever had much of an ear for exposition, even when he wasn't furry, a handful of stories tall and trying to evade another set of who-knows-who trying to put collars and chains on him. On top of the insidious whispering in his ear that keeps telling him to let his snakes drink their fill, crush the bug in his hair against the nearest section of wall until her blood runs red with mana as well, open his jaws on the world and--
Well, you get the idea. He really isn't going to remember much of these details later. But a distraction is a distraction, and between Cerberus' snake tails thrashing angrily against the chains and trying to ignore the taste of blood in his (their) mouth, Zelos trying to cram foreign words in with the words in his head -- Kaede gets where she needs to go.
There's a light show considerably brighter than Zelos' various spells in the gloom as soon as the collar comes to rest on one large dark ear; there's rumbling almost like thunder, an even brighter flash and for those sensitive to mana, what feels like a very strong and sudden current of magic flowing to a fixed point. And then everything fades and there's just a white-haired boy suspended in mid-air, totally buck-naked and--]
... I SAID, like hell I'm gonna-- Eh?
[Nora barely gets the word out before he's, ah, falling. Through the rain, not that he's too high up, but heads-up, Kaede and Zelos. And sorry for the mooning.]
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And it's not like Nora ever had much of an ear for exposition, even when he wasn't furry, a handful of stories tall and trying to evade another set of who-knows-who trying to put collars and chains on him. On top of the insidious whispering in his ear that keeps telling him to let his snakes drink their fill, crush the bug in his hair against the nearest section of wall until her blood runs red with mana as well, open his jaws on the world and--
Well, you get the idea. He really isn't going to remember much of these details later. But a distraction is a distraction, and between Cerberus' snake tails thrashing angrily against the chains and trying to ignore the taste of blood in his (their) mouth, Zelos trying to cram foreign words in with the words in his head -- Kaede gets where she needs to go.
There's a light show considerably brighter than Zelos' various spells in the gloom as soon as the collar comes to rest on one large dark ear; there's rumbling almost like thunder, an even brighter flash and for those sensitive to mana, what feels like a very strong and sudden current of magic flowing to a fixed point. And then everything fades and there's just a white-haired boy suspended in mid-air, totally buck-naked and--]
... I SAID, like hell I'm gonna-- Eh?
[Nora barely gets the word out before he's, ah, falling. Through the rain, not that he's too high up, but heads-up, Kaede and Zelos. And sorry for the mooning.]