ORIGIN

Was this a good time to respond-?

When Maximus was lying in its own blood, slipping into unconsciousness? Probably not, but Vargas was too busy rolling his six eyes to care. "Then you should have done something worth being proud of," he answered bluntly. That was soon enough to hear; but it would it hear the rest? Or would its stone have claimed it, and unconsciousness, before it did? "-Instead of giving up, running away, from every chance I gave you."

He wasn't sure if it had caught all that, but it didn't matter.

Yes, there was pity in him for Maximus. There was regret, though not very strong; he'd given it every chance and mercy he was capable of providing. And right now those feelings were far from his mind, stirred up in the mud of annoyance at its repeated aggressions and failures.

He studied it, for a moment. It was afraid of him, despite the fact that he'd done nothing to deserve that fear; it was proof enough that nothing he could have done would have stopped the moron's opinions of him from twisting the way they had. Maximus wanted and would accept no gift other than those which they, themselves, had asked for; it was spoiled, that way.

He simply didn't care anymore, and once it was in its stone, he first covered it in leaves to hide it and then he stepped away. He made a mental note to have the Sentinel look after the chrysalis. At least, the bare minimum required that Maximus didn't get eaten in its sleep, or something.