Behind his mask, his eyes snapped open.
His fingers twitched, immediately beginning the motion to reactivate the lights, but then stopped.
Intruder. Someone in his house that did not belong. The awareness of the unfamilar presence pricked at his skin, a hole in the film that coated his home. No mere animal or waylaid bird, this.
He did not concern himself with locks or with guard dogs. Why would he? Who would dare? Shortly after he'd moved in, there'd been a run in or two with members of the thieves' guild out to make their name. They had quickly learned the better of it. There'd been no such trouble since.
Silence enveloped him, magic like cotton wool padding him out and rendering his motions silent. He rose to stand, and the silence thickened to shadow, darker even than the darkness that already filled the room.
It was possible that he was prone to melodrama.
Creeping tendrils of magic spread out across the floor from his boots, delicate lines of darkness flitting toward long dormant traps laid long ago. It almost defeated the purpose of a trap to only activate it when someone had already broken in, but the rest of the time they simply weren't worth it. Nuisances and overpriced mousetraps, for all the good they did him. Runes and sacred geometry carefully drawn along floors and walls in invisible ink, now that they were active they'd be an easy enough thing to stumble across. Sticky shadows ensnaring limbs, sparing the trouble of having to search every room.
Not that he wouldn't anyway. Pinpointing their exact location with magic would be too costly even for him, but not knowing where they were was too irritating to be borne.
As he recalled those wires of shadow, not wanting to remain stretched thin, he balled his right hand into a tight fist. All at once, the manor shut itself – all the windows and all the doors, slamming shut where they were not already and locking for good measure.
Someone was going to be made an example of.
His fingers twitched, immediately beginning the motion to reactivate the lights, but then stopped.
Intruder. Someone in his house that did not belong. The awareness of the unfamilar presence pricked at his skin, a hole in the film that coated his home. No mere animal or waylaid bird, this.
He did not concern himself with locks or with guard dogs. Why would he? Who would dare? Shortly after he'd moved in, there'd been a run in or two with members of the thieves' guild out to make their name. They had quickly learned the better of it. There'd been no such trouble since.
Silence enveloped him, magic like cotton wool padding him out and rendering his motions silent. He rose to stand, and the silence thickened to shadow, darker even than the darkness that already filled the room.
It was possible that he was prone to melodrama.
Creeping tendrils of magic spread out across the floor from his boots, delicate lines of darkness flitting toward long dormant traps laid long ago. It almost defeated the purpose of a trap to only activate it when someone had already broken in, but the rest of the time they simply weren't worth it. Nuisances and overpriced mousetraps, for all the good they did him. Runes and sacred geometry carefully drawn along floors and walls in invisible ink, now that they were active they'd be an easy enough thing to stumble across. Sticky shadows ensnaring limbs, sparing the trouble of having to search every room.
Not that he wouldn't anyway. Pinpointing their exact location with magic would be too costly even for him, but not knowing where they were was too irritating to be borne.
As he recalled those wires of shadow, not wanting to remain stretched thin, he balled his right hand into a tight fist. All at once, the manor shut itself – all the windows and all the doors, slamming shut where they were not already and locking for good measure.
Someone was going to be made an example of.
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