Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24147026-20160605220338/@comment-24147026-20160731064015

"Fair enough." Neil nodded softly to the alleged Dragon's thoughts, returning his attention to the road ahead. He kept the truck at the same crawling pace, turning a corner to round the block once more. Stormy's chop-shop was dead ahead, but the conversation was far from over now that the rabbit was being discussed, and they would need the privacy the metal box around them could offer. This was no longer a matter of curiosity and business alone, he could learn to detach his own feelings towards the mortality of his Runners, and he would reluctantly part with the territory and Lien if need be, but this was blood that was being played with. Thick, syrupy, and a little too sweet to be palatable.

It was taboo to have it up on the table while gambling, only the most confident or desperate would chance such a thing on the odds presented to Neil by Zanipher. While he certainly wasn't desperate, having more than enough in Vacuo as is, he couldn't say he was too confident now that he had a decision to make, and the lucrative incentives that would come with acceptance did not help settle his overtaxed mind.

If he was being honest (a rarity these days), he didn't trust himself to care for Glaucia's safety if he willingly embraced Zanipher's offer. Vale was an entirely different beast from Vacuo, from his brief stay within the Kingdom's boarders he could foresee the difficulties that would come with moving his motley crew there. Difficulties that would consume his time and attention, a luxury he had with distance, but a closer proximity to his ward would change that. He wouldn't be able to hold the facade of normality, not as well as he would like anyways, and sooner or later a mistake would be made that would bleed both lives into one another.

Still, if he said nothing, there was no doubt someone would eventually go digging into his past. Zanipher had found him easily enough, the thought of the same woman appearing before his sister at school to do her harm was chilling. If his hand was to be revealed to these dragons, it would be on his own terms and through his own action.

"I'll tell you only because you're my new friend." Neil slipped on a practiced smile, barely tilting his head towards the Dragon so she could get a good look at how nonchalant he had become. The curve of his lips burning away the conflicted look that had been threatening to appear due to sense of uncertainty gnawing just below the surface. "Her name is Glaucia Huong." Neil started, turning the wheel lazily as they rounded another warehouse. "She's seventeen years old, and a student at Beacon Academy. She's my ward, I'm responsible for her upbringing."

"We're not related by blood however," He quickly tacked on, taking a hand off of the wheel to hold up two fingers, both bent slightly to take the shape of rabbit ears. "she's a Faunus. Got these cute floppy ears and sometimes her nose twitches when my scroll rings. It's really funny, you should see it sometime. She gets all embarrassed and red."