( Kylo smiles, all teeth, a wolfish, ragged grin that doesn't touch his eyes. Hux should recognize the challenge in it. He doesn't smile often but when he does it's either a cause for serious, alarming concern or a justified warning for everyone within a fifteen foot radius to back up out of range of his grip if they value their windpipe. Lacking the energy to so much as swat at the general like an errant fly, Kylo resorts to pinning the other man in place with a sneer alone. It doesn't matter to Kylo whether or not Hux perceives him as a threat: they both know the only thing keeping Kylo from snapping his neck on a bad day is the Supreme Leader's insistence that he leave Hux alone and let the general do his job.
He turns his head to spit on the metal grating, surprised when it doesn't color pink with blood. It seems like that's all he can taste. )
Getting your hands a little dirty suits your complexion, General.
( As Hux orders them forward, Kylo refuses the troopers' assistance once again, though less violently this time. He won't be hauled up to sitting by a bunch of marvelously unpredictable - FN2187, he thinks, quite suddenly, unconscious in the snow - meatheads with blasters tethered to their belts like degenerates. Considering that makes him pause to consider his saber, and one look down at it once he's got his back up against the wall, long legs angled out in front of him with a curled fist pressed to the bowcaster burn in his side, tells him all he needs to know about the damage that's been done to it. )
Get off.
( The troopers back off, the stretcher bobbing nervously between the two that carry it. It takes serious effort, but he manages to pull the long lines and blunt edges of his body into a crouch, then a lean, until finally he's standing, knowing that the pain and discomfort he feels now will be nothing compared to what Snoke levels at him later. Hux will suffer, more than he has before probably, but his punishment will be a walk in a field of daisies compared to what the Supreme Leader will put Kylo through for losing the girl, the map, the last known link to Skywalker. Not to mention his defeat in general. His broken saber. Bile builds in the back of his throat, and he spits again. )
I removed it. Back at Starkiller. ( Which is about as forthcoming as he wants to be about that whole incident. Kylo turns his attention to the remaining troopers and lone medical officer dispatched to tend to a prone-to-tantrums Knight of Ren. He doesn't have to use the Force to get them to leave, but he does anyway, dropping his voice to an octave that doesn't run the high side of pain he's still feeling, saying, Leave. Now. Maybe it's just to prove to himself that he can still do it. He turns to Hux again once they've been left alone. ) Any word from our illustrious Leader?
no subject
He turns his head to spit on the metal grating, surprised when it doesn't color pink with blood. It seems like that's all he can taste. )
Getting your hands a little dirty suits your complexion, General.
( As Hux orders them forward, Kylo refuses the troopers' assistance once again, though less violently this time. He won't be hauled up to sitting by a bunch of marvelously unpredictable - FN2187, he thinks, quite suddenly, unconscious in the snow - meatheads with blasters tethered to their belts like degenerates. Considering that makes him pause to consider his saber, and one look down at it once he's got his back up against the wall, long legs angled out in front of him with a curled fist pressed to the bowcaster burn in his side, tells him all he needs to know about the damage that's been done to it. )
Get off.
( The troopers back off, the stretcher bobbing nervously between the two that carry it. It takes serious effort, but he manages to pull the long lines and blunt edges of his body into a crouch, then a lean, until finally he's standing, knowing that the pain and discomfort he feels now will be nothing compared to what Snoke levels at him later. Hux will suffer, more than he has before probably, but his punishment will be a walk in a field of daisies compared to what the Supreme Leader will put Kylo through for losing the girl, the map, the last known link to Skywalker. Not to mention his defeat in general. His broken saber. Bile builds in the back of his throat, and he spits again. )
I removed it. Back at Starkiller. ( Which is about as forthcoming as he wants to be about that whole incident. Kylo turns his attention to the remaining troopers and lone medical officer dispatched to tend to a prone-to-tantrums Knight of Ren. He doesn't have to use the Force to get them to leave, but he does anyway, dropping his voice to an octave that doesn't run the high side of pain he's still feeling, saying, Leave. Now. Maybe it's just to prove to himself that he can still do it. He turns to Hux again once they've been left alone. ) Any word from our illustrious Leader?