【生肉搬运】鸟雀passerine 第一章(4)
And then there was the Angel of Death.
He was one of the very few people with a reputation that matched Technoblade’s. He’d heard of the angel through whispered stories and snatches of tavern gossip. I heard he has obsidian wings, one patron would say to another over a cup of ale. I heard he once massacred an entire army, all by himself. He makes even the Green God afraid.
Technoblade had begun to imagine a ruthless man—an immortal butcher with the same wretched grin as his. But Philza was not an avenging angel. He was just Philza.
They’d met by coincidence, in a land of ice and snow. It was barren, but they’d made quick work of it, together—first as allies and then as friends. Through it all, Philza had smiled instead of grinned, laughed instead of cackled. On calmer days, they’d wile away time with tea and chess, and silent meditations that quieted the screaming in Techno’s head, if only for a little while.
“You know,” Techno had said during one of their sparring matches (they had to stay in shape, of course, because peacetimes never lasted as long as people hoped), “the stories never talk about this side of you.”
He was one of the very few people with a reputation that matched Technoblade’s. He’d heard of the angel through whispered stories and snatches of tavern gossip. I heard he has obsidian wings, one patron would say to another over a cup of ale. I heard he once massacred an entire army, all by himself. He makes even the Green God afraid.
Technoblade had begun to imagine a ruthless man—an immortal butcher with the same wretched grin as his. But Philza was not an avenging angel. He was just Philza.
They’d met by coincidence, in a land of ice and snow. It was barren, but they’d made quick work of it, together—first as allies and then as friends. Through it all, Philza had smiled instead of grinned, laughed instead of cackled. On calmer days, they’d wile away time with tea and chess, and silent meditations that quieted the screaming in Techno’s head, if only for a little while.
“You know,” Techno had said during one of their sparring matches (they had to stay in shape, of course, because peacetimes never lasted as long as people hoped), “the stories never talk about this side of you.”