"Mm," was Saralegui's only response to Hiccup before he stepped forward to approach the possessed man. "Shhh. Stop."
It was always harder to notice in the light, unless one was looking directly at his eyes, but in the dark there was no hiding the glow that seeped into them. An eerie blue not far from Toothless' bioluminescence, it overtook the gold of his eyes and cast a faint light in the darkness, just enough to illuminate the Lux freezing in place.
His temporary companions forgotten for the moment, Saralegui focused intense on the Lux, wearing an unsettling smile even while speaking in a soothing tone as if to a spooked animal.
"Enough, now. Why don't you tell us what exactly you're after here? How many of you are there?"
This much, however, didn't seem to have so clear an effect on the thing before them. The Lux didn't respond in any helpful way. It trembled, like one not enthralled enough, and made a gurgling sort of moan in lieu of actual words. Saralegui's smile slipped away all too quickly and he pressed even harder with his will -- the words of the commands didn't really matter that much, as it was all about the intent, but it didn't seem to be registering the way the initial order to stop had.
The feeling of the Lux's consciousness fighting against his own was almost reminiscient of his attempts at working his magic on animals when he was younger. Not exactly the same, because it appeared to understand his intent at least somewhat, but the sense of foreignness, that inhuman mind, remained. The Lux remained frozen where it was, but it writhed under Saralegui's control as much as it tried to away from the soft light sources.
"Hn." He sounded mildly irritated with that bit of failure, but bit down on any great display of it. "It's too unlike a human for anything precise." His eyes never left the Lux, pinning it in place, but his tone and the way he turned his face back just slightly implied he was back to speaking to Hiccup. "What to do with it, then?"
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It was always harder to notice in the light, unless one was looking directly at his eyes, but in the dark there was no hiding the glow that seeped into them. An eerie blue not far from Toothless' bioluminescence, it overtook the gold of his eyes and cast a faint light in the darkness, just enough to illuminate the Lux freezing in place.
His temporary companions forgotten for the moment, Saralegui focused intense on the Lux, wearing an unsettling smile even while speaking in a soothing tone as if to a spooked animal.
"Enough, now. Why don't you tell us what exactly you're after here? How many of you are there?"
This much, however, didn't seem to have so clear an effect on the thing before them. The Lux didn't respond in any helpful way. It trembled, like one not enthralled enough, and made a gurgling sort of moan in lieu of actual words. Saralegui's smile slipped away all too quickly and he pressed even harder with his will -- the words of the commands didn't really matter that much, as it was all about the intent, but it didn't seem to be registering the way the initial order to stop had.
The feeling of the Lux's consciousness fighting against his own was almost reminiscient of his attempts at working his magic on animals when he was younger. Not exactly the same, because it appeared to understand his intent at least somewhat, but the sense of foreignness, that inhuman mind, remained. The Lux remained frozen where it was, but it writhed under Saralegui's control as much as it tried to away from the soft light sources.
"Hn." He sounded mildly irritated with that bit of failure, but bit down on any great display of it. "It's too unlike a human for anything precise." His eyes never left the Lux, pinning it in place, but his tone and the way he turned his face back just slightly implied he was back to speaking to Hiccup. "What to do with it, then?"