*ok sorry if i mess your carefully laid plans to drag this storybook back from the brink but im just gonna try to keep going with my part (can i just ask, where's Tobi atm? Am i talking to him with Bellow and Siren or is he with Alex somewhere else? I'm gonna go with that he's with Bellow and that Alex is in his room :s)*
Shakain (Vampire Hunter)
So the short one was another vamp (another one I couldn't touch - great) and the other two were Nekos (but I could have worked that out even without this conversation).
The male Neko, called Ballow, explained about their meeting and subsequent finding of the castle and then wittered about how empty the place was and whether I knew what was going on in the war at the moment. But I was only semi-aware of this, I was much more interested in the small vamp, who Ballow introduced as Tobi Uzaki. It wasn't just that he seemed to be trying to hide behind Ballow without making it look obvious, it was more the way he looked at the Neko - it was like they were...together. I mean I'm all for cross-breeding (heck, most hybrids are more fun to hunt than vampires themselves...and there I go again thinking about hunting vamps when I know full well I can't here...I need to do something about that...) but this seemed just too strange to me.
Anyway, the one useful fact I gleaned from this monologue was that the Nekos were here to hinder the fighting not help it. That will need to be changed I thought.
"Interesting" I replied when Ballow was finished, "Sounds like you've had more fun than me. I don't know where everyone's gone or what's happening with the war - I hoped you might - but I would guess the two are connected. Perhaps this fine young lady can help you" With the last sentence said I pointed to the human who thought she was concealed in shadow, "Care to join us dear?"

