A pair of ruby red eyes opened in the pitch blackness that held dominion over the inside of the cave. Some of that oppressive darkness seemed to recede, as if the space was filled with a soft red glow streaming from those two eyes. The eyes both belonged to the same face, a face of inhuman beauty framed by silky black hair. He was a young man, dressed in what looked to be dress clothing that certainly offered no protection from any kind of attack. His face showed no reaction to a stranger having just barged into his shelter. Those red eyes just contemplated the girl before them as they would a window they were looking through.
“Y-you!” Esdeath barked, making a few attempts to scramble to her feet, only succeeding when she had slid a hand up the cave wall. Embarrassed, Esdeath’s eyes, the color of the ocean, skimmed over what she could see and pressed a hand to her wound. Despite her frightened spell, she stiffened her bottom lip and attempted to ooze confidence and power towards the rather handsome creature. She would wait for him to talk.
The dark-haired individual just stared without moving in the slightest for a long time. Then, he stood up straight and bowed his head to the girl. "Apologies, I did not realize that this place was being used," he said in a smooth voice. The young man moved to leave the cave.
A smile slid onto Esdeath’s face in response towards the man’s fluid movements. She swiftly recuperated, obstructing the man’s path. Curiosity led the girl to invading his personal space in some manner, a finger extending outwards to touch the shoulder of his suit, withdrawing it slowly. “What are you? I do not recognize your…race.”
The man with the crimson eyes that seemed to look past Esdeath even while meeting her eyes stopped. When he spoke, it was with the same soft, measured voice as before. "My race.... it is human, as is yours."
“Do not lie to me. You’re different.” Esdeath’s eyes darkened, someone with poor vision would see them nearly blend into the darkness. Her voice, that was slightly high, lowered to a somewhat threatening tone. It was clear the women was not content with his technically truthful answer.
"Race: Human, Class: Vampyre, Specialization: Vampyre Noblesse." The vampyre's gaze finally shifted to actually looking at the girl before him for what may have been the first time. "Raizel," he said simply, leaving it to be implied that that was his name.
An observant eye would see the woman’s frame tense up and perhaps some veins throb beneath her pale skin when the vampyre’s eyes settled on hers. “Esdeath. That is my in-game name, at least.” She replied vacantly, caught in slight awe of his race. “I didn’t know that race was playable.” Esdeath was a good person at heart, thus far, but she could not help but be curious of his strength. She bit her bottom lip and chuckled silently, letting her seductive subclass release troubles on the vampire. The woman could not help but poke fun on people she believed to be a lower level than her, even if she wasn’t completely sure of what she was messing with.
Raizel was unmoved by the tide of false emotion that washed over him. Outwardly, he showed no reaction at all., as if he hadn't felt or noticed what the girl was trying to do.
Esdeath, astounded by the vampires abilities, withdrew the urge from him, clenching her hands closed. It was not normal for her only subclass to fail her. The woman elegantly turned and moved closer to the cave's entrance, gazing out into the darkness. "Being dead should not mean you are dead to your emotions or desires, vampyre. If you wish to know what happens beyond the darkness, guilds seem to be gravitating towards departure island. There's likely to be war. No need to dwell on that. " She mumbled silently, no longer threatening and seemed to have some respect for him. "Show me your powers, if you may."
Raizel continued his stubborn silence. The girl seemed to be ignorant of the fact that a vampyre and a vampire were two completely dfferent things, and that he was very much alive. It was a common mistake that many made, and Raizel had long stopped correcting others on the point. If they wished to see him as some sort fo immortal monster, then he would let them.
He'd planed on making the girl to tell him what she knew of current affairs, but that she gave the information without him even needing to ask it was convenient. He'd repay her by fulfilling her request.
Raizel's body fell apart into a swarm of black bats that separated like a river to fly around Esdeath's body and out of the cave into the dark forest. The bats spread out some as they left the enclosed space, but they moved in one group. The cloud of flapping black wings flew right past where a young man was hiding outside the cave, then turned back and gathered into a swirling column of bats that faded into the shape of a black haired young man again.
Raziel stared down at the boy with his ruby red eyes. "Who are you?"
A swarm of adrenaline ravaged Esdeath’s veins as Raizel burst into this mass of bats as thick is the night. The girl covered her face as winds from the hundreds of wings blared into her face. All along she had a subtle smile, batting her thick eyelashes once at the vampyre once he had finished, his swarms coming to him like a magnet and revealing that PK. That smile was gone,
He had followed her? She was almost sure she had ditched the whole guild for the time being. “He’s the stray the libertarian guild adopted.” Esdeath step out of the cave’s darkness, as furious as ever walking over to him. “You know, they say curiosity killed the cat.“ Opening an outstretch hand, a sword appeared in it. “But no, this time it’s gonna be the other way around, player killer. You had your chance to part ways with me. There’s a lot more scarier things to me than becoming a feline.” Before him and the vampyre knew it, the weapon flew by char’s head, scratching his cheek and being impaled into the ground behind him as she approached them both. “Someone give me a reason not to land that sword in your head next time and string your mangled body onto the World tree. Huh?! He isn’t going to save you!” She spat, gesturing to Raziel, who showed no sign of acknowledging anything Esdeath had done or said.