Noticing his girlfriend look interrogatively towards him only made the man guiltily grimace. He could hardly act casual when, as every second passed, he was having to come to terms with knowing that the world he had created was going to come crashing down. He had lied to Devin, and to Blyke and Gem too, so of course he wasn't looking forward to them realising just how serious his lies and deceptions were.
"Look, just take me," he wearily appealed again once approaching the grand, vast ship in front of them, mostly so he could save the others from finding out who -and what- he was. The sight of the ship brought some contrasting emotions. On one hand, it represented everything he hated. It had been a prison to him the whole time they travelled to Earth. He had been locked in his room, unable to interact with anyone because his parents saw him as too precious. On the other hand, it... had been home for the years they travelled in space, and there was something... comforting about knowing that he was essentially home, even if he wouldn't have chosen to return voluntarily.
"Don't you want Mother to meet your precious girlfriend, though? And Father too? Since you left, and Grace, and the others all got massacred, I would have thought you'd want to see them?" Axel drawled with a irritated frown, physically shoving the humans on board and being equally as harsh with his brother. He had no respect for him at the moment, and it wasn't going to improve if Octavius continued to whine and plead.
The eldest, though, was wise enough to keep his mouth shut when shoved to the floor in the grand hall, and physically avoided looking at his parents-- as well as doing his best to avoid the portraits of the family along the walls. Given the ship had essentially become the family's home, they had done their best to domesticate it with portraits-- though it did ring sadly now most of the fourteen children were now
dead.
"Octavius-- Is this him-- Oh, of course it's him~" Beamed his mother, the beautiful woman rushing down from her throne and making her eldest get to his feet, enveloping him in a hug as though nothing had happened. He had been a cannibal, he had left home and he had killed his own kind while working with the humans-- but the woman was so
ecstatic to see her son that none of that mattered again. "Why did you handcuff your brother, Axel? He's not one of those disgusting humans."