Antony lit a cigarette, watching the ember at its end slowly burn away the paper. A tobacco smell filled the air, until it was snuffed out as he slid the entire stick into his mouth and chewed. “Hm…” he turned sideways, before spitting it out into a can. “Well, that tasted awful.”
He turned back to Yukio, before asking, “So, you’re also a member of demon royalty cast out from your underworld?”
Antony drug a finger along his wrist a bit, playing a little with his stinger just under the skin. “Small world.”
Antony leaned back in the chair, waving a hand nonchalantly a little. “So. Is your royalty also the eusocial ‘one Queen with a drone sometimes’, or…?”
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”Oh! These?” Antony stood proudly, flaring his wings out, which looked like panes of orange glass lined with frames of obsidian. “I can fly about, hm…”
Antony scratched his chin. “As fast as an elytra wearer with some fireworks.”