#ElowynThread

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After the argument she had with her uncle, Elowen needed to destress. So, once she cared for Apollo, she gave him a bone to keep him busy and left. Maybe she should call Kyrell to see if he's up for a late-night hangout. At least when he was around, she could forget who she was and what deal she had made with her uncle over ten years ago. But what kind of person would she be if she willingly kept him in her life and he ended up in the crossfire. That thought of being the reason why he lived a short life was the main reason why she tucked her phone back into her back pocket and kept her head down as she got on her repaired bike and rode to the Appalachian Mountains. 

It was getting too late, and most would warn people to stay out of the woods of the Appalachian Mountains, but that's where Elowen felt most at home. She hiked up further to see the view lit up by the moonlight. The more she climbed, the less likely she was to run into someone, particularly this late. Or at least, she thought. Elowen kept her hand on her favorite blade on her hip. She always had her gun, but she didn't want to draw it unless she knew she was in immediate danger. 

An intense feeling washed over her, and she snapped around, scanning the trees to see if she could see anyone. Nothing so far, but it didn't take much longer to land on someone not too far away from her. The more she looked at them, the more she recognized the other, but it wasn't enough to relax her. 

"What are you doing here?"

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Elowyn was starting to wonder if over sized egos come with a Reaper's job description. Or if this was just the other's own personality. Maybe she should have tried harder to lock in on another reaper. Biting on the inside of her cheek she attempted to prevent an eye-roll as she listened to him explain Reapers for Dummies to her. "Sure. So, just like a mortal who can smash their hands into someone's chest, rip it out their souls, and eat it like an apple." She gave him a thumbs-up with a sarcastic smile. "Got it." She could even hear Darrian's eye roll at her for that one, which made her smile.

Narrowing her eyes, she knew she had to be careful with her wording and stances - she didn't know what he would take as a challenge. Whereas Dullahans wouldn't attempt to do anything to her, even if she mouths off, she wasn't sure what laws reapers follow and if it's the same as Dullahans. Argo, if she says or moves the wrong way - she wasn't a hundred percent certain he wouldn't rip her soul from her chest. "Perhaps I can show you another time." Elowyn reached for Darrian and felt the pull at its strongest and knew he was waiting just out of reach from her.

That does not mean you should provoke the reaper, young one.

I think you're too late with that advice. Refocusing her attention on the other, she debated what she should tell him. Trust had nothing to do with it, it was choosing what would convince him to help her obtain the sword. Any suggestions?

None that you would approve of. Of course, he wouldn't be any help. Breathing out, she walked closer to the nearby wall to create distance between her and the reaper. "Leviathans took my siblings, I can't kill them, or even hurt them with the blades the Dullahans gave me." She stated and crossed her arms. The reaper's sword wasn't just hidden by the reapers and could only be found by them, but the weapon was to be only wielded by them. The consequences were still a blur to her if it wasn't wielded by a reaper, but she would cross that bridge when she came to it. "I know - one of the reasons I need your help." Clearing her throat, she leaned on the wall, still keeping a watchful eye on him. "I need you to help me obtain the blade, but also help me kill the leviathans that have my sisters hostage."

He made a face, she wasn't making a great case for getting his help, now that she was basically threatening him. Alexander laughed a bit at her response however, it was still amusing, even if it was a threat “Okay, maybe. But I'll probably kill them first.” He offered a shrug, then turned his attention away. This was such an odd conversation, he was realizing. Though he wasn't really used to conversing with the mortals. They had a lot of things going on that he wasn't particularly interested in most of the time. They also seemed to complain a lot and make almost anything difficult. Though he had to stop thinking of such creatures as a collective. Individuals were not always the same. She at least seemed a little different from most.

With her following question, he closed his eyes, almost as if he was taking psychic damage from it. Then he decided to answer “Yes. We are, a lot like you mortals, still. We just work on a different frequency. If you understand that.” He informed. Alexander waited a moment before continuing “But we do have our own individual personalities and all that garbage.” Eying her, he wondered what was with this whole interaction, still. It wasn't getting any clearer. Other than she needed him for something. Shifting in his stance, he licked the small soul flames off his fingers and quirked an eyebrow as she finally spoke again “Huh. Is that right?”

Keeping most of his attention on her hand as she held it over the weapon attached to her hip. Though her response had been an interesting one “Really? And why would he allow you to have such a thing, hm?” How convenient for her to have that. In the wrong hands, things could certainly go very, very wrong. Death was a requirement, not a suggestion. Moving his and away from his mouth, he let his arm go slack at his side, slouching slightly as he narrowed his gaze down on her own “You should not have that.” Alexander was clearly not in any mood to play at that moment. He would not be threatened into doing something, either. But as she was the one who felt threatened, he supposed, then he was going to only tell her once.

Lifting his head a bit, he turned it away, wondering how his was the only one she could locate, there was some sort of significance in that, but one he wasn't currently privy to, of course. Though, he doubted it was because he had been careless. Holding his right hand out a bit, he twirled his hand around “So here I am. What do you need help with?” He could sense the catch without it needing to be stated.

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With all the added pressure of an enemy of Elowen's uncle potentially coming to town, writing a target on her head as well as her siblings and cousins. Elowen just wanted time to breathe. So, once all her duties were accomplished, and all details were rolled over with her mother, uncle, and old captain - she went to the apartment, changed into some tights, an old dance sports bar, and pulled over a sweater before fitting into her sneakers and slung her old dancing bag over her shoulder. Unfortunately, her bike was still in the shop. Her crash was only a few weeks ago, and even though she made an early full recovery, her bike wasn't so lucky. Thus, she opted for her car, which she rarely drives. So, when it roared awake, she was surprised it could still run, considering it's been sitting in the parking structure of her apartment complex.

When she moved back from Paris, Elowen used to work at her old dance studio to supply her own money. So, it was easy to find an open door the night shift needs to remember to lock. Settling into one of her dance studios, she placed the bag in the far corner and sat next to it, changing into her dance shoes and shrugging off her sweatshirt. Once her headphones were secured around her ears, she played her favorite music to dance to and allowed the music to take over her body. For once in a long time, allowing her mind to wander and let her body do whatever felt right.

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☄ — Some people say that Elowen Ada Mancini  could be Zoey Deutch ’s doppelganger, but is really a Thirty year old Owner of Five Senses & Captain of the Mancini Family. She is described to be Persistent, Mysterious, Clever, & Ambitious .

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☑    Full Name ➢ Elowen Ada Mancini ☑    Age ➢ 30 ☑    Occupation ➢ Owner of Five Senses & Captain of the Mancini Family ☑    Residency ➢ West Haven, Connecticut ☑    Species ➢ Human [Druid Shape shifter] ☑    Powers ➢ None. Just can kick major ass -- Specializes in Knives & Dance fighting [Ability to change into a wolf, horse, or griffin. Magic like a cleric, controller of electric energy] ☑    Family ➢ Alexander Eriksen - Father                             Nerezza Mancini - Mother                             Stephan Mancini - Older Brother                              Amaya Mancini - Little Sister                              Sylvana Mancini - Baby Sister

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☑    Favorite... ➢        🖛 Color: Dark Sage Green         🖛 Quote: “Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.” ―  H.P. Lovecraft         🖛 Book: The Shunned House by H.P. Lovecraft         🖛 Fast Food: Dirt Dog         🖛 Food: Anything - Pizza mostly         🖛 Snack: Chips         🖛 Drink: Water & liquor         🖛 Movie: My Cousin Vinny         🖛 TV Show: Brooklyn 99         🖛 Vacation Spot: Italy & Greece         🖛 Animal: Wolves ☑    Love Life ➢        🖛 Relationship Status: Single        🖛 Sexuality: Straight        🖛 Past Relationships: Not someone who is made for commitment - hookups only, and they are endless. ☑    Physique ➢         🖛 Height: 5'4"         🖛 Body Build: Athletic         🖛 Hair Color: Dark Brown         🖛 Eye Color: Hazel ☑    Sexual Side ➢          🖛 Turn Ons: Oral, Rough Sex, Bondage, Double Penetration, Biting, Marking + Claiming, Breathe Control and much more         🖛 Turn Offs: Daddy Kink, Feet & Armpit fetish's, Humiliation, Degrading, Water Sports, Gold Showers -- or any Bathroom Play, and more         🖛 Favorite Positions: 69, Missionary, Butterfly, 21, Anvil, Aquarius, Backshot, Bad Dog, Belly to Belly, Boat, Bulldog, Classic Kneel, Coitus from the back, and much...much more        🖛 Kinks: Lingerie and Sexy Outfits, fingering, food play, striptease, oral sex, edging, erotic massage, anal sex, bondage, rough sex, sensory deprivation, sensation play, candle wax play, impact play, spanking, breath control, exhibitionism, odaxelagnia, fighting/wrestling, face fucking, double penetration, clothed sex, barebacking, & much more... ☑    Gender Bent ➢         🖛 Logan Marshall-Green

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There was a weapon that Elowyn needed to help free her sister and considering no dullahan would help her, then a reaper would do. Much to Darrian's protests, she sought one out and her spells led her to Alexander - right in the middle of him doing his duty. Some were smart enough to never interfere with a reaper or dullahan's jobs of reaping souls - but Elowyn was desperate and she'd do just about anything to get her sister free and she refused to fail in the mission of saving her. Thus, her persistence of following him and never leaving, not when he sucked a soul out of a body but instead of the traditional way of a dullahan gathering a soul, he fucking began to eat it! She tilted her head in awe, and she could feel and hear the beginnings of Darrian's protests again. Luckily the other spoke up and started to walk away, and Elowyn soon followed after.

"Never said about how you reap souls - just that your ego seems like it will get the best of you one day." Wrinkling her nose as she watched him devour the soul. Then she began to wonder if this is truly how all reapers collect their souls. However, she didn't have much time to ponder the thought as he stopped and decided to reach out his putrid hand towards her. Her overprotective familiar growled through her mind but her hand already reached for the elven blade on her waist. "I suggest retracting your hand unless you plan on finding out what this living is capable of." Twisting the knife in her hand, the corner of her brow rose.

Elowyn took a careful step towards him, revealing the runes on her gloved hands. "I'm not human if that's what you thought initially." No, far from it, she was an elf, a crossbreed of a Valkyrie, and something she hadn't found out entirely yet. "I casted a spell to see and communicate with those who only deal with the dead." Pulling the glove back over her hand, she stepped back. "There's something that I need from you, well, something only your kind would know where it is."

"Your ego is astounding."

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Turning his attention to one side, glancing them over, before finally turning to face his head toward them, he glared. Alexander dropped his head down, cold dark blue eyes falling over them before he offered a grin to them adjusting his head ever so slightly “You haven't even begun to see my ego yet.” The reaper shifted in his stance, releasing his hold on the body he was holding, letting hit then grumble to the ground as he turned to start walking from it, in his palm now, a freshly harvested soul “If you don't like it, look away.” Alexander then commented before giving a shrug and walking right passed them, twirling his scythe at his side before coming to a stop and biting down on the soul as if it were an apple.

His teeth dug into the strange outside that seemed as if made of gray flames but did not produce heat. Digging deeper into the strange 'fruit', the color of the thing changed drastically, and a hiss came whispering from the insides of it. Chewing into the center, Alexander closed his eyes, as the taste of the soul started to fill his mouth. Still munching on the strange object, pieces of the flames fell onto the ground, also hissing as they disappeared from touching the living realm. As a grim reaper, it was his job to take off souls when their vessel had died. This soul was one of a corrupt man, who had, unfortunately-- Or perhaps very fortunately for those he had hurt in life, had gotten cracked on the head by a falling turtle.

Tearing away a piece from the whole, Alexander looked at them “You know, most of you living's can't even see us.” Tilting his head back, he opened his mouth and dropped the remains of the soul into his mouth. Chewing before continuing to talk “Unless, you're close to death. Hm?” Walking toward them, he reached out his hand, still covered in the juicy flame-like soul fragments.

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There was a small silence between them as they walked toward the lake which Elowyn was fine with, after all, she had come out to the woods to get some peace of mind. Sure to some these woods are too creepy and dangerous to trudge alone here, which is fair because if you weren't careful it could be. However, Elowyn has felt more at home in these woods than her actual home in the city. Besides ever since she reconnected with Darrian and found out who she was - the twig snaps in the middle of the night didn't scare her as much anymore. Suppose it was a catch-22, however, she felt more secure and protected with her familiar guide, but she also knew of the creatures that linger in the dark. Creatures that made dealing with a few pissed-off spirits more welcoming.

The lake wasn't much further, and she was excited to see the moon over the lake. It's become a sort of tradition for her now. Once every month, she would come out to the lake sit under the moon, and allow her mind to wonder. Sometimes she would find Daven following her to the lake, and while she enjoyed her time alone, she couldn't deny the company was welcomed. Especially when she still had questions about what other creatures were out there and Darrian wasn't in the mood to answer questions.

"Ah, well at least you're not a full-term Tarzan." She joked. The lake was behind a few more trees and bushes. "The lake is just up ahead." Elowyn nearly jumped with joy when they came into part of a clearing with a whistling breeze across the water, the light only coming from the oversized moon hovering over the tree line and lighting the entire lake.

Smiling from ear to ear, she placed her hands on her hips and turned towards the other. "Ta-da." She motioned her hand out to the lake. "Told you it is breathtaking."

As his found family, the vampires were hunting right now. He was certainly on some sort of edge. They were the only thing he had ever known to come close to family. Even if there were things he found issue with. Like they're calling their leader 'father'. Shin had had a very rough start to life, and didn't want to lose such connections over a little bit of disagreement. Or bringing to light that his found family might be more like a cult. But, he had to live with the idea that, maybe that's just how covens were?

So running into strangers so close to the hunting grounds, especially at this late hour, was going to set off some alarms. As it wasn't typically common to happen. Usually strangers could not get this close to him, out here. The 'father' was very protective of Shin, born an elf, but more than that, he was extremely special, his blood was highly valuable above all other bloodlines that could possibly exist in the known universe. That's why he was kept alive, to replenish this rare blood type.

Shin accepted the treatment his rare blood had brought him, as he had known no other treatment. Before he had found 'father' and the other vampires he was locked away in a facility that performed cruel experiments on him. Before that, an orphanage where he was often mistreated by other children and staff. Finally managing to run away and living on the streets, where he was captured and taken to the facility. Before any of that, he was found abandoned and never knew his birth parents.

Of course, he would take love, in any form it was given. He seen the coven's behavior toward him as love. As they treated him well, and did not hurt him. In return, he loved them like a family he so desperately wanted to have all the times he needed one. As Elowyn spoke, he simply grinned “Okay.” He walked along with the other, toward this view and didn't consider anything wrong with it. As he was desperate to meet and befriend others. A curse of companionliness, one could say. When she had asked if he lived alone he nodded “Yes. I do.” He answered, as he was supposed to. Looking down he nodded his head “It does get very lonely. But I go to town a lot.”

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Maybe she was reading too much into it, but she believed the other to be tense. Although, suppose she should be too? Meeting a stranger in the middle of the night in a forest where horror stories are born isn't the most comforting thing. But she didn't feel threatened, maybe it was because Darrian was close by, but she didn't feel as if she was in immediate danger around Shin either. Elowyn smirked when he agreed to go to the lake with her. Though for someone who lives in this forest, she was surprised he wasn't the one who found such a treasure.

Regardless, Elowyn sidestepped from where she was. "It's not too much further away." She stated, keeping the line with Darrian wide open as she turned her back. She didn't have her eyes on him, but she knew damn well that her familiar did.

Picking up a twig, she began to mess with it between her fingers. "Do you live out here alone, Shin?" She questioned, turning a little to look at him. "It would be really lonely if you do."

He didn't know what to make of her. Clearly she was not of the human world. But it really didn't matter at the moment. Because that was where they were, regardless. Shin raised an eyebrow when she asked about the lake. He turned his head a bit, as if he might see it and then shook his head “Don't think I have, no.” He was usually with his friends who were only awake at night. Which was often dealt with by being in the mansion or taking walks around the woods. Today was one such venture, though he was on his own for the time being, while his friends hunted.

Blinking, Shin glanced up to the sky “Maybe it wouldn't hurt to visit it, though. I'll consider it.” To touch the moon, or to seem like you could, that was certainly a sight worth seeing, of course. But he could not figure out a good time at the moment for doing that. Still, there was something he could sense that wasn't being said at the moment. Observing her briefly, he looked to Elowyn, focused and then quickly looking away again as a brief silence started to settle in. An awkwardness came about from it as that silence grew.

“Mmhm.” He couldn't let it go, honestly. This weird feeling he wasn't aware of all that was going on right now. Shifting, he brought his left hand up to his face, dragging his fingers along the bottom half of his face lightly “You are?” Shin then questioned her response, looking somewhat confused. But moving on as she had “Uh. Sure. I guess.” Pulling his hand from his face he stuck out his arm to pull the sleeve of his coat down and looked at the watch wrapped around his wrist “Yeah. I got time.”

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Coming to these mountains alone at night really does raise red flags—suppose they were both strange creatures. However, staring at the moon was honestly the reason why she came to the mountains. Elowyn needed a secluded place to go to in order to forget the reality waiting for her outside the woods. "Ever seen in above the Watauga Lake?" Her crystal blue eyes hummed in curiosity on the other as she narrowed them to watch him closely. "The full moon seems close enough to touch." Not to mention the lake itself was stunning, but the moon seemed different when you were sitting on the rocky shore and staring up in the sky.

Darrian was always circling close, but being in the Appalachian Mountains, he was able to get away with being closer. It was an odd adjustment when she discovered partially who she was and was only then reconnected with her familiar guide. A 22-foot-tall Asgardian black wolf who tends to have that get off my lawn old grouchy grandpa personality most times. Especially when Elowyn tests the waters on her safety, which considering what she does - is every day. And yet, telling this guy about her 22 tall Asgardian wolf familiar seemed safer than telling him she truly did come here to get peace of mind because her uncle is a crime boss who broke the deal they struck ten years ago for Elowyn to join the family business to keep her younger sisters far from his grasp and as safe as possible.

"You as well, Shin." You are too comfortable around him, young one. Elowyn internally rolled her eyes as she straightened off the tree. Though she shrugged at his last words. "I am." she simply answered, glancing up at the bright moon. "I can show you, that is if you haven't already been."

At the slight smile, he blinked, then lifted his head a bit, not sure what was going on here. The elf, himself, glances away briefly, mostly hoping to return to his isolated night wanderings, but was also overtaken in curiosity to this…other. There certainly seemed to be more going on, was all he concluded. Why else would she be out here alone, in the middle of the night? He knew why he was, of course. That could not be the same reason for her. His living out here, in the middle of nowhere, also helped with his reasoning for being there.

With her following answer, he glanced up to the sky, staring at the moon. The moon was very nice. Yes. But was it worth wandering into the middle of a mostly inhabited, for the most part, section of deep woods? Bringing his gaze back to Elowyn, he was not buying what she was selling. It didn't work. This moon could have been viewed at any other distance, right? He rarely left the woods, himself. But in his gut, he felt like this was not as truthful as it was being presented. Shin grinned back, “Great. The moon is always nice, I agree.”

Then with her question, he gave a nod “You could say that, yeah. Now. Not, always. I guess.” Shin shrugged, trying to keep the conversation casual, his thoughts undetectable, his face expressing cluelessness. Tapping a foot, he sighed, “Is that weird? I don't know.” He gave a careless shrug, not really caring that it might be peculiar that he was living out here, he was used to it now. Though as her questions continued, he laughed “Oh, right. Shin. Great meeting you in the middle of nowhere, at night, El.” He said. Shin was not his real name, of course. But he didn't trust her with his real name. Shin was more of a codename “So, just the moon brings you here, huh?”

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A hint of a smile crossed her features before it was taken away from Darrian's voice ringing in her head.

He's an odd one, Elowyn - you shouldn't keep your guard down with him.

He hasn't tried to attack me yet, Darrian. Besides, I have my fierce protector on standby.

I will not be your scapegoat for...

Elowyn blocked him out and focused on the other when he spoke up again. "Touche." Clearing her throat, she took a breath she didn't realize she was holding onto. "Suppose the moon offers me some peace as well." Which it does. While the stories still keep her on her toes, she knows nothing will happen to her when Darrian is close by. So, she was in a weird state of being at peace while still keeping every crunch of the forest floor under close watch. Well, at least keeping her fingers on the hidden dagger on her waist.

Her brows rose when stated he lived in the woods. "You live - in the Appalachian mountains?" Alright so, maybe Darrian has a point about keeping her guard up more around the other. Following where he was pointing, she hummed.

"You have a name? Or should I just refer to you as strange woods guy?" Elowyn was careful to keep that distance between the two as she walked to a nearby tree and leaned against it. "I'm El."

As the woman was staring at him, he was finding her to be stranger by the second. Though when she finally spoke, he lift his head up a bit, acknowledged. But then looked toward the moon, to, thinking about it. He certainly couldn't be doing that "Nah. Just enjoying the moon, Miss Presumptuous." Looking back at Elowen, he grinned "And what about you? Isn't it too late out for you to be out?" He wondered why she looked so freaked out, though.

"The moon definitely can't help me, anyway." Vampires were out hunting, and he was just their roommate. He wondered if they would hunt her, when he was around. Shin stares at the women, waiting for her to speak again. As she's talking he glanced away "I live here, so yeah. I guess I do. I'm one of those lost souls. My dead body is-" He pauses, scanning the area down below the cliff he came to stand at, before pointing toward some trees "Right there." He points, lying.

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Well, he wasn't the friendliest of things, but she wasn't expecting a sunshine and rainbows kind of reaper either. Regardless, she much prefers working with the dullahans. Rolling her eyes, a smirk played at the corner of her mouth. She was used to assholes and always found them more amusing than offensive. "Hopefully someone will find a way." She muttered under her breath not caring if he heard her or not. Either way, she wasn't going to try to entertain him with conversation, she was here to get information and the weapon to save her sisters.

"Can anything frighten a reaper?" She asked sincerely with an arched brow. Elowyn wasn't clueless about reapers, she knew her blade wasn't going to leave anything but a minor scratch - but it would be enough to keep her alive until Darrian was able to reach her. Twirling the handle in her hand, she sheathed the blade back on her hip. Elowyn was able to hold her own against a lot, but she wasn't so sure about a reaper and she didn't know if she was ready to find out either. Thus, she checked the connection between her and Darrian, feeling the tether get stronger, she knew he was already on his way to her. "Enough to escape with my life intact." Barely.

Elowyn stood still as he moved to the side, her hand still hovered over her hip - she would be a fool to be completely relaxed the other's kind. "A weapon that was forged by the big boss Death himself." She started. "It's believed to be the only weapon that can kill anything. Like being touched by death himself." Of course, these are only stories, but Elowyn was always a believer that the stories always had to come from somewhere, and frankly, she was desperate to get her sisters back from the leviathans. "Though stories also say that it's guarded by reapers in a location only known by reapers." She turned her head and watched him. "You were the first and only reaper I could pinpoint a location to enlist help." Although like her favorite Once Upon A Time character, Rumplestiltskin, always says - all magic comes at a price. So, 'help' was a loose term.

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Alexander blinked at the other, then glanced away, unsure how to take that. So all he did say was “What will happen, will, whatever it is, kill me?” He asked, almost looking like the notion might have been amusing to him. Almost. But there was little that could actually kill a reaper. After all, they had controlled the realm of death. He used to be quieter in life. So now that he was officially a reaper, after going through all the academy training, he now had a new voice. Alexander wonder at times if maybe he used it too much, still. Chewing on the bite of soul, he mulled over this conversation, and how to continue it, why he should, even.

He would not say he had much of an ego. But perhaps he did, in the end. Maybe all his personality traits amounted to the appearance of a great ego. Maybe it wasn't that big of a deal, if he did. It wasn't like he was a particularly nice person to be around, right? Alexander hated going through the academy, sure, being a reaper was nice, it was fun at times. But he had to deal with all of the same nastiness as these livings, if she truly wanted to meet someone with a lot of ego, then he was not the one with an absurd amount of one, certainly. Many of his former classmates at Reaper Academy, had more. He was often jealous, though.

As Elowyn spoke on he sighed, turning his hand to one side, slightly, then closed his fingers into his palm “You think that is frightening to me?” Alexander questioned, again, almost seeming abused, but could not bring himself to be so, any more than a small impression. It was amusing “And, what is this living creature capable of, against death?” When she went on, he glanced away, sighing, then he shook his head “I don't particularly care. I didn't even ask. Life and death come for all of you. That is all.” When she stepped back, he dropped his arm down, taking a few steps to one side of her as she spoke on needing something from one like him, he narrowed his gaze “And, what is that?”

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Elowen was careful with the distance she put between herself and the other; it wasn't who she thought it was, and the more she focused on his features, the more she pondered if she'd run into him before. Maybe she had? She often visits these mountains and, more often than not, either runs into weird things or people or sees things that are better left not investigating. As much as these woods feel like home, she's heard the stories and the warning that if you hear or see something - no, you don't, seriously. Argo, it could be she's seen the other but, at the moment, couldn't place him. 

"Honestly?" She crossed her arms, keeping her surroundings in her peripheral and the other on her main focus. She moved her weight onto her right leg and forced her body to relax. I'm fine. "Looks like you're lost and trying to find direction on the moon." Then again, wasn't she doing the same in a sense? 

She took a deep breath and sighed out a breath she didn't realize she was holding. "Do you usually come into an infamous woods that swallows lost souls alive?" 

As a fog came over the mountainside and covered under the trees, Shin stared out of the window from the mansion that had been built deep in the woods. The six other occupants he lived with had been waking up as night began, he knew. After he had escaped the laboratory that had found him when he had been injured, he was living on the streets after running away from the orphanage that had taken him in as an infant. Shin, as he would come to be called by some, wandered into the woods and soon found this mansion, old but kept in pristine condition. The mansion had been built hidden deep into the woods to keep away from the eyes of others. However, rumors still had been passed around about it by the villagers and townspeople, who at times did manage to stumble onto it.

When Shin had found it, however, he was taken by the leader of the mansion's occupants. Shin was special, just like the others of the mansion, but not exactly like them. The leader decided that he was to take care of the 'daily' tasks that the other occupants could not do during the day. To have room and board. Shin readily agreed, just needing any place that would help him hide from those at the laboratory who would be searching for him. As he stays there, he also manages to learn more about his own family and enjoys the comfort of the small town and its convenient ability to keep things hidden.

Shin was able to become a relatively known member of the community, though he was still spoken of as 'strange' or 'odd' by several of the people in town. Shin sighed, pulling away from the window and deciding he was going to go look for cryptids while the other occupants went about their normal rituals of the night. Standing, he pulled on a jacket and made his way out of the front doors and into the misty night. A good time for finding such otherwise unfindable creatures, normal people usually hid from this world and were for the most part unable to see it. Shin however had the sight. He could see these creatures, that was how he found the mansion. Where others would go screaming back to town talking of creatures and curses, Shin embraced this supernatural side of things.

Making his way up the trails of the mountainside, he moved to stand at the cliff edge that gave one of the best looks over the treetops below. Staring down toward them, he could see some creatures moving in the night, some normal creatures that did their hunting at night. Others, not so normal. Lifting his head, Shin stares up at the moon, then turns toward the voice that calls out to him the next moment “Staring at the moon, what's it look like?” Shin turned to her then, and made a face, his head tilting a bit.