How high does the sycamore grow?

[angelphones]

Characters: angelphones and vatheon.
Location: North-East Quadrant (The Forest)
Time: Afternoon. (Slightly forward-dated.)
Style: Starting out as third person, but will switch to action afterwards, unless you want to keep it as third.
Status: Open!

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[lunateclock]

[Not many, though Minato was simply re-orienting himself, catching up with Vatheon, so to speak, and slowly placing the memories he'd forgotten.

Of course, he's been rather exhausted since showing up in Vatheon--unsurprisingly--despite it slowly getting better, and he's feeling rather exhausted now, and so he stopped to take a break, slumping against a tree and paying little attention to the rustling sounds he made. Surely there wasn't anyone else out here...?]

[angelphones]

[He hears the rustle of leaves, and heads in that direction, spotting Minato. He smiles a little bit, and intentionally steps on a twig so he doesn't alarm the other boy.]

Hey.

[lunateclock]

[A blink--oh, had he been dozing off?--and he looks up at the other. He doesn't stand up quite yet though.]

Oh, Katsu-kun. It's good to see you again.

[Since to him it's been months--]

[angelphones]

It's been a little bit, hasn't it?

[Smile smile smile.]

....... because I haven't tagged you enough. CLEARLY.

[amidstreason]

[ ... Apparently he wasn't... the only one around in here.

Not the only demon, either...?

A pause, though, and he stiffens. What the hell IS this energy? Demonic AND holy? Well, he'd been taught that God had a penchant for wanting to kill him. As did anything holy. Though most the angels he'd met in Vatheon seemed nice (Aziraphale came to mind immediately), so... could whoever (whatever?) this person was be all that bad?

... Naoki was still cautious, at any rate. If it came to it, he was just as powerful as... whatever this thing was.

Dot. Dot. Dot. It's a kid with headphones? ... ]

... You look pretty normal.

[ Huh. ]

ilu2. |D

[angelphones]

[The energy makes him pause, and turn around to see what that... pretty powerful spike in energy is.]

[... Huh. He looks around his age, though the tattoos... probably mark an entirely different experience than his.]

I'd like to think so. Who are you?

[xblood_lusting]

[ Ah, just how many people did come into the forest, the fateful forest the doctor called his territory? At least one tiny sector of it. He'd come around to investigate that teeniest trace of dark power mingling amongst the miasma of his own.

Hm. This boy. Clearly he'd overlooked something about him.

So, like any good prowler, the doctor waits in silence and continues to study this interesting specimen. However, Muraki still has yet to learn that traipsing around in white doesn't do very well to hide his presence. ]

[angelphones]

[... Did he sense something? He's not sure. He opens his eyes, looking around, unable to shake the feeling that he's being watched. He starts moving further into the forest. Maybe the feeling would go away...]

[xblood_lusting]

[ Certainly not human energy, this. How strange. Just a boy with a pair of... are those headphones? Kids these days.

Deciding to take a more direct approach, the doc decides to come out of the shadows and appear just riiiiiiiiiight behind Katsu. ]

The forest has been a dangerous place in the past, dear boy.

[angelphones]

[If he's startled by the man appearing behind him, there's not much surprise on his face as he turns to look at him.]

Has it? I wasn't told. But I can take care of myself pretty well.

[countrybeloved]

[Huh. Zen'd just been relaxing up in a nearby tree when he heard the noises, watching the last part of the chase.

Popping upside-down from the branch now!]

You usually go around chasing deers?

[angelphones]

[He glances up at the other.]

... Not usually, no.

[countrybeloved]

[A grin]

Just one of those moods, then?

[angelphones]

Something like that. I needed to get away from the city for a while.