Savage triumph reigned in his brutal little heart. He'd won.
Sure, he couldn't really touch Vargas, and the Leviathan was still threatening to rip his eyes out and kill him but he wasn't, so Imp had won.
He grinned, feeling lighter, feeling in fact elated. He'd faced his fear, and his fear was currently wandering off, beaten. Aethril really had raised a wall between him and these shitbag Masters, then.
Good.
Fuck 'em.
He said a sort of mental prayer to Aethril herself--a mutter of gratitude.
Imp turned, and took wing from Draco, a bright flash of color against its drab void-light--cackling all the way.
exit Imp