Cadenza could feel the hidden figure's eyes focus on her. They'd been more or less trained on her since they entered, but now they were... different. Scrutinizing... sizing her up again. Trying to gauge if what Rain had said had been true or a joke.

When he'd chuckled before, she found herself easing up. The tension she'd felt earlier, when she spoke with more emotion than she'd meant to... it dissipated then. And she realized that she trusted all along that he was different from this figure that was cowering in the shadows, using the darkness to prey on humans.

I... trust him. I never go in for teams in fights, because I think everyone's just playing with hidden cards, hiding their real hands from everyone else, but... he could've turned on me then and I didn't believe he would, even before he spoke.

"...My last meal?" the voice was speaking again. "I should have you know, if you kill me, the girl and her mother will die too. They're bound to me, for good--we share energy. If I'm slain, their hearts stop. If..."

The voice stopped, as if biting back words. Withholding information for when it was convenient, just as it was still withholding a clear glimpse of its form even now. Cadenza could see through the shadows... it appeared to be just a simple human... but appearances were deceiving. The speaker's shade, deep and dark on the floor underneath him, just a blacker spot in all the blackness, was an indefinite shape. That meant he had yet another layer of a mask, in addition to the darkness and his half-truths...

The gypsy blinked, discovering that the whole time she'd been prodding the shape in the shadows, her eyes had been lingering, unfocused, on Rain, just as her hand had been subconsciously still holding onto Tiffany's. He was moving now.

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