'Once a coward, always a coward.' The words hit the fiend's ears with an unexpected feeling, causing them to flick momentarily as he assessed the young man that stood before him. He was around the same age as his sons from what Elias could tell, and the way he looked at him with his shimmering emerald stare to match Elias' own glistening rubies made Elias' skin along his spine come alive with an eerie feeling. The look in this one's eyes almost seemed expectant after he finished looking over Elias, assessing him in the very same manner that Elias did to everyone else. Was this a fighter? A hunter? Much like Elias' own self?
He lifted his chin as he questioned who he was, and a devilish smirk stretched his inky lips across those thick teeth, the yellow of them flashing to the beast slayer before him just for a moment before Elias veiled them once more. "Elias Praetor," there was a time when he wouldn't answer with his own name. When he would tell people he was nothing or a stranger they would soon forget. Something changed because with all the new faces Elias had been running into recently- he spoke his name with a sense of pride and well-articulated emphasis. Yes, he was Elias Praetor- a Praetor, which meant he was a soul with meaning.. with purpose. And something about the young man before him made Elias want to take him under his wing and bring him along for this purpose.
"Dimitri, what do you know of demons?" Perhaps a bit forward, and the risk of facing rejection itself brought his short hackles to life as he prepared himself to discover whether or not Dimitri would run like his father did. Elias' talons of his right paw grazed against the top of the burnt soil before it rose and took a daring step closer to the wolfhound, his red eyes narrowing as his chin tucked close to his chest as he looked down to him. He had no intentions of attacking Dimitri, but there was a madness that he wasn't quite ready to reveal his intentions of just yet. He was testing him, assessing him and figuring out where the man's boundaries were- how much he would let Elias push him before he showed any of the same signs as his sire. "And do you think you have the heart to face one?" A simple question, but the answer was all Elias really saught.
Disclaimer: Elias suffers from schizophrenia and occasionally has violent outbursts.
