Alexander had been sitting on his bed while Kasai lay curled up on the rug by his feet. Alex was polishing and sharpening his katana and wakizashi in order to avoid the influx of first years. He may technically only be a second year himself, but he had attended Aulani Academy for going on four years now, originally attending at the middle school campus, and since arriving he had stayed on academy grounds through the holidays, rarely leaving except for the occasional hunts just outside the campus walls, and a few rare trips into town. He preferred to stay at the academy in order to avoid his mother and father, seeing as things with them were relatively tense, what with their disapproval both of his daemons and the fact that he as attending the academy.

When the siren had sounded he had been slightly flustered, while he enjoyed hunts he was only just barely finishing his sharpening, and he really wanted to give another coat to the katana, and he knew that technically he didn't have to participate, but it was the first real hunt of the school year, and there was no way he would miss out... entirely. He stayed for a short period of time, adding a layer of holy oil to his katana, and the wakizashi, then sliding them into their sheaths, and putting the sheaths on his belt. He then stood and walked slowly out towards the main hall, and was rewarded with an empty building. All the students had flooded out onto the ground, and while some of them had good tracker daemons, he had a slightly unfair advantage in the locating department. Between the combined senses of both a Lamia and a Kitsune they would be able to quickly make up for lost time.

"Acentia, honor your oath, I summon you." Alexander still felt awkward summoning the Lamia, for Kasai and him there had never been a need to summon or call. They were constant to one another, even when Kasai went wherever he did, there was always a part of Alex's mind that knew he was there, no more than a thought away. With Acentia Alex's bond was much less intimate, he needed to call her, and she couldn't speak mind-to-mind the way he and Kas did.

The floor in front of Alex turned for an instant into a rushing river, which Acentia claimed was [i]the[/i] River Styx. Alex still didn't quite believe her, but as she rose from the waters he had to admit, if there really was a river that lead to and from Hell, those waters might actually be a part of it. "There'sss a daemon around." Acentia stated, her serpentine tongue rolling her s's, as she shook and ethereal water droplets flew from her skin, each disappearing before ether landed.

"Think you two can find it before anyone else?" Alex asked.

"It isss uses you are asssking Alex." She hissed with a smile, "The real quessstion isss can you keep up?" And with that she began slithering at a pace that required Alex to sprint to keep up with Kas, now as large as a full sized wolf, trotting along easily a few paces behind them, ready to redirect, should he feel Acentia went off course.