Casper couldn't help but laugh a bit. "You scare them?" He nodded, leaving a half smile on his face, but didn't make another comment. [i]"It's much better to be feared than to be afraid."[/i] With that, he was a little surprised on how she suddenly said that. She was probably blurting out stuff without thinking. He raised an eyebrow curiously. Of course he knew how that felt. He wasn't afraid, but he did prefer being feared so he'd be left alone, and he'd be unattached. It was simple. He stared while she seemed to be off in her thoughts again, until she asked for his name.

"Casper's my name." It was a sentence that he hasn't said in a long time. Again, he felt a little more loose, more out of the water. Still, he wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or a bad thing. And then he added - "Than to be afraid...of what?"