For a long moment, Severus holds very still, and merely stares at the other man. He doesn't recognize him - the closer he looks the more off details he notices, but it's difficult to tell if that's paranoia, or the effects of the damage. He crouches down a bit and extends a hand to Velcro, gentle in a way he isn't ever with other people, and watches the dog for a bit. Eye contact, clear interaction.
Not so with the human counterpart.
Unseen, he smiles, vicious.
Of course. He thinks he's finally got tabs on everyone, he's finally making plans to evacuate this line of work because his orbit is too close to the rest of them and now, only now does this happen. He stands again, slowly, nearer to Sebastian this time.
"Who are you?" Murmured to himself. If the other man can't see him, he can't hear him, either. But this close, and the way Sebastian's magic is so broken, he might catch an impression out of the corners of his eyes - an out-of-focus afterimage of someone nondescript, just the edges, not even a real person, a flicker of a mirage.
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Not so with the human counterpart.
Unseen, he smiles, vicious.
Of course. He thinks he's finally got tabs on everyone, he's finally making plans to evacuate this line of work because his orbit is too close to the rest of them and now, only now does this happen. He stands again, slowly, nearer to Sebastian this time.
"Who are you?" Murmured to himself. If the other man can't see him, he can't hear him, either. But this close, and the way Sebastian's magic is so broken, he might catch an impression out of the corners of his eyes - an out-of-focus afterimage of someone nondescript, just the edges, not even a real person, a flicker of a mirage.