mah_blackberreh made a post about law as the egyptian god of death anubis and people started talking and then this happened.
The man wore a mask that seemed to be made entirely of pure gold, hammered thin into the shape of a stoic jackal's face. If Kid wasn't currently tied up and gagged and fucking left alone on an altar in what had seemed at first glance to be an abandoned temple, he would have demanded the guy take it off so he could have a better look at the craftsmanship.
As it is though, he's a little preoccupied by the creep popping out of the shadows like a fucking ghost. And to be completely honest, he's starting to get freaked out.
Dogface approaches the altar silently, then stands at the side and just looks. He'd probably been sneaking around back there in the dark, watching Kid try to wiggle out of the ropes like a stupid fish flopping on the shore. The knots were tied well, that's what you get when you're captured by fishermen. Kid doesn't waste any time making himself look even more pathetic and concentrates on glaring. At least they hadn't blindfolded him too.
To be fair, they'd only gagged him when they realized the only Egyptian he knew was how to say "shit for brains," which he repeated as often and as loudly as possible. Still, he'd just wanted to get his feelings across about being taken hostage immediately after being shipwrecked. They didn't have be such assholes about it.
But he digresses. Dogface stares at him for a minute, or at least Kid assumes he's staring but it's hard to tell through the narrow eye slits. The continued silence makes his hair stand on end. He wants to keep struggling against the ropes even though he knows it'll take him another 20 minutes of flopping around to get anywhere with these shitty knots, and he doubts this guy would just sit there waiting for him to get free.
Finally Dogface tilts his head to the side, and looks so much like an actual dog cocking its ear Kid wants to laugh. Great, now he's getting fucking hysterical.
The guy says something he doesn't understand, since it's both muffled by the mask and in a language he doesn't speak. Kid looks at him blankly, and he says it again. Kid tries to shrug. He thinks he hears an irritated sigh from behind the mask, but he's not sure.
Dogface reaches over and brusquely turns Kid's face away so he can untie the gag, then grabs him by the chin and turns him back. He says something unintelligible again, in an imperious tone.
Kid stretches his jaw a bit before replying. "Fuck you, shit for brains," he says with his best sneer, half in Greek and half in Egyptian. Hopefully this guy was better traveled than those fucking fishermen and would get the full message.
Yeah, that is definitely a pissed off huff he hears this time.
Then Dogface takes off his mask, and that wipes the smirk right off Kid's face. Holy shit, he's beautiful. Maybe this whole left-as-a-sacrifice thing wasn't so bad if the Egyptians had gods like this.
"I'll be fucking you," the guy says in heavily accented Greek. "Cocksucking bitch," he adds, as an afterthought.
Well shit.