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Perhaps he had been to forward in his attempts to make her wary. Sirius had not intended to frighten her - After all, the words he spoke no more frightened him than the birds in the trees. To the Revlis man, they were facts; Harsh, cold, cruel facts. Her sweetly scared features served to surprise him again at the girl's freshness, her strange innocence. Surely somebody had seen how vulnerable she was, on her own? What was their thinking, in allowing such a pretty thing to wander so far? Inferni had always held a tentative spot of respect in the male's mind, but that pedestal had been withering for a while now. There were rumors of growing weakness within the clan, and the girl's mere existence proved such a thing. In the days of his childhood, they would surely not have permitted such fragile beauty within their ranks. Perhaps Gabriel had gone soft.
But another thought pervaded, as the girl tucked a silky gold lock behind her ear and revealed once more the entirety of that rouge blush. She was, after all, one of Kaena's - Perhaps this blood was worthy of admital, then. In that case, wouldn't she be protected? Her sister had ridden a stallion, a creature large enough to impose a certain degree of respect. But this damsel was completely, totally and utterly alone. Vulnerable. Ripe for the plucking. His eyes narrowed, as the male mentally reined in the hungry trailing of his mind. He had been far to busy to entertain notions of romance lately, but the excitement found other ways of manifesting itself on the man's calculative mind.
Her delicate voice was rewarded with another sharp smile, although the shallow glint to his eyes was appreciative and not dark. The girl was a pretty thing, and he was content to let her remain thus - Cruelty was not within the man's immediate nature, merely a side-effect of his continual drive for respect and order in a world where chaos reigned. "Of course, how rude of me," Came the smooth tenor tones, dipped in a warm but false remorse at his apparent rudeness, "I am Sirius Revlis," Tentatively he reached to take her hand, and if the maiden would allow it, bestow a charming kiss on her tawny knuckles. "And you?" Lykoi. Her sister's name was Sage. He couldn't recall if the other sister had spoken of her sibling's names, for his memory focused on far more important things. Already, he knew far more about the girl than she might have suspected.
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