""thanks but i usually don't go alone on this but my brothers teased me about the dark and i said i could go on my own. Then they turned into a challenge knowing i would take it on""
“So.. your brothers made you do this, did they?” He asked, “well… they should know better than to tease their sister into wondering in the forest…” he looks behind him, apparently for no reason in particular, subsequently he looks at two other positions behind him before, looking towards Jill again. “…on the night of a full moon,” he finishes his sentence after a slight delay.
While to others who might be watching, the direction in which Sol had just looked would be irrelevant, if Nevaeh was also watching him, she would notice that he had looked at three positions which were directly below her, to her right and to her left sides respectively. In other words, he had looked at all the places she could have been instead of directly at her; almost as if he knew of her presence, as in, her general direction, but not exactly where she was.
""and i don't want to walk the last part alone the threes there shuts out the moon light from the path""
“Oh… I completely understand,” he replies with a smile.
‘Can’t finish what you started, hm?’ He thought, ‘well, you’ll be staying here for a while longer I think.’
While she busied herself with the cat, he busied himself deciding on which verse he should use for the Black Key should the situation degrade to outright physical violence. Although, he had already taken a powerful precaution to prevent that from happening, he still did not want to take any risks. His mission was a bit too important to let himself be delayed by whatever mundane designs these prey had.
""you don't like cats?""
“Hm..?” He asked in reply, pretending not to hear her, as he busied himself with fixing the flowers, or making measly attempts at it anyway.
"" here like this. All you who use your hands for brute force sometimes seem to forget how to use them for gentler actions"" she said, ""see just be gentle with the flowers and it's much easier""
“Hmm~ ? Do I really look like such a brute to you?” He asked, feigning a slightly hurt look on his face, and giving up on his miserable attempts at positioning the flowers properly, ‘and here I thought I had the cleanest record amongst the heretic hunters,’ he thought, a slight smirk adorning his mouth for a split second, ‘well, at the very least, my hands aren’t always drenched in blood like my other brethren in the Burial Agency.’
Having been more concerned with the cat she was holding instead of Jill herself, Sol completely missed the puncture wound on Jill’s palm. After all, it was not as if the cat was the only thing Sol was concerned about…
""can't forget you little mister either better bring you back with me there seem to bad things out here tonight""
‘Oh yes.. how could we forget about you,’ he thought, ‘having seen your many forms already, I have to say that I much like you better as a cat than all those other things you can transform into…’
‘So why don’t you stay like that…’ he smirks, not so subtly this time, ‘forever….’
He takes a step back and subsequently slams his feet into the ground in front of him, on the exact position on which he had so meticulously drawn a magic seal a while ago. Sure, it had taken him little more than a second, but that was the result of years of having drawn the same seal over and over again.
The slamming motion of his feet immediately activates the seal and sends out a powerful blast of magic dispelling wave in a wide radius, before sealing all magic and magical acts in the radius with the Word of God. The power of the seal was capable of nullifying the ability to transform as well as the magical act of sating ones hunger by absorbing the DNA of other creatures in the form of blood. While the act of sucking blood would still be possible, the absorbed blood would lose its ability to rejuvenate and would taste like something equivalent to sand.
All creatures able to sense the flow of magic would be able to feel the flow having been cut off completely, and yet it would be quite irrelevant to an ordinary person, although they too would perhaps be able to feel a slight push as the magic dispelling wave passed through the area. To a normal person, Sol’s act would feel quite strange, in the sense that they would likely think that Sol had caused them to feel a push simply by stamping on the ground.
It was a powerful ability all around to be sure, but one with an equally powerful flaw, in that one only needed to move out of its area of effect to be able to use magic again; although, a magical ability or act would immediately be nullified again after re-entering the radius of the seal. Thus, it was more of a tool for negotiation than outright offensive.
Giving a quick glance in Nevaeh’s direction, his gaze centers on the cat for a bit before simply gazing up at the trees, towards nothing in particular. “Since you have decided to interfere with me…” he says, “why don’t you come out and we can talk this through in a civil manner,” the subtle smirk reappears on his face, “I’ve even created a nice little stage for us to converse in…”
Realizing that his acts so far may feel quite strange to Jill, he flashes a reassuring smile in her direction, as if to tell her that he knew what he was doing…