and if anyone should be looking...
It takes days.
Days before he even ventures out again, and when he does move he does so slowly, without his head-down, belligerant stride. The wound in his gut has stopped bleeding, but still looks like a butcher-shop accident, sealing over slowly with the pallid blue-tinged skin. Dead flesh heals poorly, especially without the soothing presence of the demon sword and without souls to consume.
It takes a further day for his anger and increasing desperation to overcome his caution, and he ventures into areas of the Nexus where he may be spotted...*
Days before he even ventures out again, and when he does move he does so slowly, without his head-down, belligerant stride. The wound in his gut has stopped bleeding, but still looks like a butcher-shop accident, sealing over slowly with the pallid blue-tinged skin. Dead flesh heals poorly, especially without the soothing presence of the demon sword and without souls to consume.
It takes a further day for his anger and increasing desperation to overcome his caution, and he ventures into areas of the Nexus where he may be spotted...*