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[ Up Fabian meanders in his slow placid sort of way. He drapes his arms over the podium and links those bony fingers for a moment before deciding this question would be best delivered around a cigarette. Once that's been taken care of, he goes back to previous posture. ]

Do you fear death; do you long for it? Does death inspire a curiosity or a paralysis within your thoughts? Have you put great thought in to after death? Do you have your own personal belief?

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[ He pauses a moment if only to grasp the initial concept of this figure speaking to him not being of a human variety. Which is fine, really. ] I'm going to ask you extremely ignorant and possibly offensive things very shortly.

[ The orange light in her eyes dims for a second as she tips her head. She sees no particular reason to worry about the prospect. ]

Well, that's all right. Everyone's got to get filled in somehow.

[ Most of the people she knows have spent a few centuries dead. It breeds a certain sympathy for the learning curve. ]

[ Well congratulations on finding someone who's escaped death for a long time and now regrets it. He folds his hands after finishing his smoke. Well, let's start then. ]

I wish to make no assumptions, so please: tell me of you.

[ A strange request - but perhaps she's gotten used to being among people to whom her circumstances are obvious, who need only ask a couple of questions. Maybe three. Either way she's a bit flummoxed. ]

Oh. Uh, my name's Blaze-37. I'm a Guardian, from the city. I guess you could call me new at the job, seeing how it's only a couple of years since they woke me up. I'm Titan-class - specialized for heavy offense. That's a lot of fun.

[ She rubs her collar as she thinks, running out of significant details. Depending on whether you share her definition of significant. ]

That help? I don't think there's much else to tell.

[ You are 100% something he's never seen before and that's not to say he's not seen things that are explainable or unknown. He's a witch as well as an artist, you see. He knows the supernatural well, but nothing like you. ]

Apologies if my questions seem dull to you, I have never seen such a being as you before. I come from trees and snow and wild animals. [ Like, he barely uses a cellphone and his knowledge of whatever technology the world has decided to conjure up is really extremely outdated. He's aware of some of it, he just doesn't... care. ]

Just a little hazy on what you'd want to know. I haven't talked to many people who aren't Guardians, myself. Human or otherwise. Definitely not people from out in the wilds.

[ She's heard there are some out there, scraping by in small bands and tiny, huddled enclaves. But for all intents and purposes the civilized world to her is nestled in one fortified city she's never stopped to explore. ]

So you're from somewhere... northern-ish, right? [ He started explaining himself, does that mean it's her turn with the questions? ]

It is most certain that very few things cross my ears that I do not want to know so please, if you have habit of talking then talk away. [ He minds not a mutual conversation which entails of both asking and listening. ]

Mm, correct.

All right, then. I'm not exactly the shy type. [ She gives him a cheerful nod. Stereotypically, Hunters are taciturn, Warlocks are secretive - or maybe the other way round, Blaze doesn't keep them straight. She does know she's not any of those things. ]

I've been up that way a bit. Not your part, I think: there was more tundra, not so many trees. Are there other people where you live?

I tend to be wayfaring more often than not these days [ he says with an exhale. Don't let him catch you calling him a wizard. Really, just don't. ] Small towns. I don't take to large cities much.

What had you been doing in the tundra?

Huh. That's pretty unusual.

[ He might be safe on that score. Wizards are screechy floating things to her. Not creatures you'd want to have a conversation with. (That said, 'witches' are an even less flattering comparison. Space, it turns out, is full of 'we-might-as-well-call-it-magic'.) ]

It was just the regular kind of work. Putting the heat on the enemy, salvaging tech. Usually both at the same time. You can find some good fights in the ruins up there.

[ What a strange world you hail from, he'd think. In his world wizards are elemental magicians who usually have no idea how the hell to use the power they have. Good thing they aren't all that common, could you imagine if they were. ]

Safe to say we come from very different backgrounds. Vagabonding is strange to you, or being uncaring for large cities?

Yeah, it is. Guardians do it - especially the Hunters - but it's different for us. I suppose I thought everyone else just didn't have a choice about it. People don't want to be stuck outside with the monsters.

[ Her own desire for safety might be erratic, but she expects it of other people. She can, on consideration, venture a guess or two about this exception. ]

Is it too many people you don't like, or being cooped up too long?

[ It's more like... after ten or so years and your face doesn't seem to age, people get suspicious. While he is actually slowly aging now, it's a lot more slower than what's normal and he wants to not be an attraction for previous practices that put him in this curse of longevity. He's very much over that 'I need to be special' point of his life

But he doesn't say this. ]

I belong to nature. Nature does not settle, why should I?

[ She takes that more-or-less as confirmation of option number two, and nods slightly. And promptly asks, ]

What do you mean by that, exactly?

Have you ever met a witch? [ Let's start there ]

[ Her manner turns a little more intense - not grim, more like her her ears - or antennae - are pricked. ]

Yes. [ No. ] I ran into one deep in the Hive's tunnels once. That was something, all right - kept floating around the place when I tried to hit it. And don't even ask me what it was doing when I got there... why do you ask?

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