SPOILER!!: Zekesters
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Hera
No response. But that look told him otherwise. He'd totes done it before! Or at least had thought to do it before, joking of course, nothing serious, WHO could be serious about that? Besides Gavin, of course.
Zeke arched his eyebrows too, though not in the same way Sabel did, his was in surprise. Mmhhmm. "It's in the realm of posibilities," he decided. Whether or not Sabel would tease him... well... he could only guess. But then he continued, and Zeke couldn't help but blink out his disbelief. No way. "You're sure you're not having me on?" He hadn't had a positive letter home since his second year... or actually, maybe he did have one last year, it was hard to remember these things now.
Following Sabel's gaze to the forest, Zeke squinted for a moment at a patch of darkness, it was difficult to tell if anything was moving in there, but he hadn't heard anything to suggest otherwise. Just a casual and oddly quiet stroll along the edge of the forest. Sabel's comment or praise or whatever that was, didn't fly with him. "Death was never an option though, this is school... not the real world, you wouldn't let us die." He'd said so himself in the first club meeting. Had this been a duel to the death, he would likely be dead.
Of course it was in the realm of possibilities. The lad was all the wiser for being able to recognize, and say so. He got that same grin as before for his troubles. Why yes, yes it most certainly was. But not in this case. Not today.
"I can show it to you when we get back, if it'd ease your nerves." It was kind of adorable how much the kid wanted good word to reach his mom. Perhaps it was a normal kid-parent thing, but because he knew the family and knew Emily especially, it was rather endearing. He wasn't about to be one to kibosh that.
And then his smile was all but gone. He had this terrible habit, of taking things seriously and to heart. This, was no exception.
"In the real world, people just don't let other people die either."
That lingered heavily in the air for a long moment, before a puff of breath from Sabel pushed it away and into the depths of the forest.
"I'm not pulling your leg though. You did exceptionally well."