[The words, or maybe just the tone, are reassuring - but the movement is enough to set Josh off. He's so hungry, so weirdly restless, like he needs to move and run and hunt. He lashes out, fingers curled into claws, but there's enough human left in Josh that he can stop himself - just barely - from actually injuring Chris.
He wants to, though, and that's bad. That's alarming and frightening and he didn't really realize until now. It's too much, and he's still hungry, and Josh's decline was slow enough that it almost seemed natural from inside his head, but it really doesn't now.
He needs to go. He needs to go before he really hurts someone, and he needs to go because he's hungry and he can't eat his friends, and he needs to go because they locked him in a room. He's angry and vicious and inhuman and also, still, somehow concerned about what he's become and what he could do to these people who have already given him a second chance.
So he runs, instead. He's faster, stronger, the buildings and roads of the city are easily navigated and full of prey and just - not here. He doesn't look back at Chris, thoughts slipping easily into a creature's mindset, nothing like the human he once was.]
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He wants to, though, and that's bad. That's alarming and frightening and he didn't really realize until now. It's too much, and he's still hungry, and Josh's decline was slow enough that it almost seemed natural from inside his head, but it really doesn't now.
He needs to go. He needs to go before he really hurts someone, and he needs to go because he's hungry and he can't eat his friends, and he needs to go because they locked him in a room. He's angry and vicious and inhuman and also, still, somehow concerned about what he's become and what he could do to these people who have already given him a second chance.
So he runs, instead. He's faster, stronger, the buildings and roads of the city are easily navigated and full of prey and just - not here. He doesn't look back at Chris, thoughts slipping easily into a creature's mindset, nothing like the human he once was.]