“Hey” Someone called from down below and a little to the side. Asa flinched and looked round. A boy was walking towards him, a huge, dead, double-headed, Grimm snake’s carcass coiled on the ground behind him. Flicking his tail softly, Asa dropped the few remaining feet to the ground. He had slowly been losing altitude as he ran out of momentum, and now was as good a time as any to come down from the trees. Leaving Tears of Blood unsheathed, he faced this Faunus boy, some kind of big cat, who was to be his partner for the next four years. “Nice.” He nodded at the Grimm, which was starting to dissolve to the wind. “I’m Asa. Shall we find something else to fight?”