[Rosekitten]

For the most part the two seemed to avoid one another. Probably for the better for their sake and everyone around them. Raden swore that they were related and Thalion waved the younger male off saying that was not possible. Though he never said why it wasn't possible. But the odds were not in the favor of that happening to say the least.

Though to say the least he was bored, he might as well have been staying with Mizuki in the study. He had been so use to just going whenever and where ever it was hard to think that he was kind of in a way bound to stay here. Raden noticed this right away. He found it funny that Thalion seemed bored out of his mind and pent up after a mere few days.

Though any thoughts Thalion had died off as Mizuki entered the room in a apparently good mood. He didn't get to ask what before the other said what the good news was and went over to him and kissed him. Oh great a party... The last place he wanted to be. Crowded, loud and drinking. Oh yes this sounded like fun. Well the drinking he wouldn't mind.

"guessing its out of the question to think I can just stay here huh?" Though he had his answer as Mizuki seemed to answer him with a mere look. That was a no he couldn't just sit it out. Even on normal terms he avoided parties, he was the odd teenager that would have rathered stayed far away from any parties. Granted the few friends he had still managed to drag him of to them anyway.

Though it seemed that would be all of the interaction he got with the other as Mizuki quickly stated he had things to go prepare for and to work on before tonight. As the other left Thalion sighed before noticing how bored he was being cooped up here. Heck it wasn't like he felt at ease just walking around this place. There were still whispers that he somehow forced the blade to react. Like he was some abomination or demon. Who knew maybe Needren had a point. If this were a game the race wouldn't have mattered as much but seeing as this was his life.

things would have been a hundred times easier to have been a different race. A bit late now to worry on such things. Over five years after they were first brought here. Among the first batch of players to discover this place and that they were more or less captive here. Though now he wasn't sure he even wanted to go back. He had hated the city anyway, so confined and restricting. Going back meant that he would be back in that small apartment and working at the shop for barely enough to manage bills and anything that was needed.

By now he found himself outside, well seeing he was out here... Hunting down Raden was a easy task. The young ranger normally kept to the edge of the camp away from most. "Ever going to be social?" "Like you?" Well he asked for that reply. Either way he held his hands up in defeat at that comment. About that time a hawk flew down before landing on Raden's out stretched arm. "You hate it here." Raden spoke as he moved a hand along the bird's back lightly.

"Maybe... It reminds me of when I moved from home in a odd way." He shrugged a little at the thought. "I had a hard time adjusting to life in the city." Everything was crowded and busy all the time. Hardly like home. Though he never looked back and after he dropped the college classes he never dared to write. "Oh well little I can do about it." He said before crossing his arms.

"Not all animals do well in cages." Raden said glancing at Thalion who gave him a odd look. "you say some strange things at times you know that?" Though he knew what he meant. Staying here he'd go mad on a number of levels. But Mizuki was needed here so he had to make a choice to stay here with the one he loved and had spent five years trying to get back to or to satisfy his desire to not be cooped up here.

Sighing finally he uncrossed his arms before glancing back towards the main area of this place. "I think we both know what answer I choose." Raden nodded a bit before moving his arm as the hawk flew off suddenly. "I figured it out finally." The ranger spoke with a slightly excited tone. "?" "A phoenix " Thalion looked at the younger one oddly at such a sudden change of topics.

"I said everyone has a creature that they are like, so I finally figured yours out." "Were you really thinking on it that hard?" Raden nodded a little as Thalion shook his head at the idea that he had been thinking on that answer for quite a while now. "So lets hear why that one." He had named off creatures before but he always gave a reason as to why they weren't the perfect match.

"Its a smaller breed of dragon, feathered with some scales. They are known to come back to life when killed or so the stories go anyway. Not only that they tend to be flashy and brightly colored to give their foes warnings before they strike. Fierce tempers and unwilling to be tamed, yet they have their other side too. They mate for life and will do anything to protect what they believe is important."

"Done yet?" Raden nodded with a shrug. "You asked." "So more or less you just called me a glorified peacock." Raden rolled his eyes and shook his head a little. "If peacocks can call on the fire element and started carrying cattle off then yes." Yep he wondered why at times he even questioned the boys thoughts. He was like a walking monster dex, worse then Neimi ever was.

"Why are you out here anyway?" Raden leaned against a wall before looking at Thalion questioning. "Your trying to avoid that gathering tonight..." Flinching Thalion looked away before speaking. "Not like it matters if I'm there. Mizuki will be plenty busy. Besides crowded rooms with all that noise.. I don't normally look to go into places that make my ears bleed."

"You think your going to get away with this?" "no." Thalion sighed before crossing his arms again. "I think if I didn't show up Mizuki might send a search party to make sure I didn't go do something stupid." Even in just the past few days he could tell the other hated letting him out of his sight. Not to say he minded the attention but between that and being cooped up here. Plus tossing Needren on top of it all. He liked breathing from time to time. Plus it felt like he was in the way here.

After that raid and the downfall of the queen and one of her sisters there seemed to be next to no drow out in the world. Most recalled back to the city. Others were look a likes that were being disposed of. He had thought about it a few times, going back there. Just to see what had become of it. Maybe to finish what he started with revenge on that last sister. "Oh well least I'll get to see how many times Felix gets slapped by the women he hits on." There was a upside to this.