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[cutlery]

[ By the time Sebastian reaches out in Communion, he’s already felt the fullness of his rage and taken it out. Viciously. It’s an occasion where he’s grateful for what Ryad provides, lest he had to express it in a more troublesome way.

Sebastian’s usual affect is warm and friendly, if with a polite distance, but today, it’s ice cold. His Communion is always expressed as something dark, but there’s a secondary sensation that comes today as well. It’s the unsettling sensation of being watched that makes someone’s hair raise. After all, there’s uncountable eyes in that abyssal dark. ]

I shall be brief. Someone broke into my home a few days ago and left a “gift” most unwelcome. A Shard belonging to someone from my home. Yet, though I kept it isolated to inspect it further, that did not seem to matter. It infected the Shard that Lady Yima gave me. A Shard that is now no more, for it burst. The soul that was in that little rock is no more.

[ His voice becomes more tense at that last sentence. It’s clear he’s very intentionally holding back his temper significantly. ]

I make this announcement for my fellow Zenites’ sake that they might destroy any they come upon immediately. Also to inform them that there is a way for these Shards to be tampered with that has been exploited. But let me also be clear.

I will find whoever was unwise enough to step into my home and play with my pet. I went through great lengths to obtain that soul, and I do not take kindly to being robbed of it. But there is no need for threats beyond that, is there?

[ So he says, but it’s crystal clear—Whoever it was, they’re in grave danger if they’re discovered. ]

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[cutlery]

No.

[ He's sharp and definitive. ]

There was something strange about the one that was left in my home. But I did not have a chance to decipher what it was, precisely.

[eightfoldfiend]

No? It was destroyed, then?

A pity, I would have liked to examine it, myself.

[A snort.]

Are you sure there was a soul within it?

[cutlery]

Absolutely. I can see them, so there is no mistaking it.

[ And technically no mistaking who it was either, but that's a side curiosity. It's the only reason Sebastian had even kept a suspicious thing, which he obviously regrets now. ]

They are both nothing more than pieces now, though.

[eightfoldfiend]

If there was black magic involved there might still be energy lingering in those pieces.

[cutlery]

[ There’s an impression of a frown at “black magic” but only because it’s a term with weight for him. He may be much more open to the idea of things existing across worlds here, so he’s sure that it’s quite real and literal, but he can’t help the reflexive feeling in Communion especially. ]

…Perhaps. I do have someone coming to look at it, so we shall see. It was not my impression that it was magic, though. I could see something in the Shard very clearly.

[eightfoldfiend]

[Yuber senses the frown and his presence flickers questioningly, wondering why the term is troubling. But he doesn't pry.]

What sort of "something"? Are you saying the soul within it may have been corrupted?

[cutlery]

Yes, something like that. But I do not know what sort of something that would be. I have never seen anything like it within a soul. The visual appearance was… cloudy, I suppose is a word for it. It is difficult to describe, since I say that I see souls as only a metaphor. It is a sense relatively unique to my kind, so much as I have found in Kenos.

[eightfoldfiend]

"Your kind?"

So, you are not human? Hah... That explains it. Your presence feels too...dark.

What are you, then?

[cutlery]

[ Sebastian sighs, not for any sense of being bothered by the question, but it’s more because if this is a problem, he’s hardly in the mood… But he gives his answer simply all the same. ]

Not in the slightest. I take on a human form for convenience, but I am a demon. The very sort from Hell, if that is a realm that your world has.

[eightfoldfiend]

It isn't.

[Yuber's consciousness coils.]

But "demon" is a term I'm familiar with.

What is your true form?