[center][h1][color=CC7722]Icarus Ochre[/color][/h1][h2]Seidoujima Island - [s]Mountains[/s] Icarus's Roost[/h2]
[sub]Starring Icarus and Yet Another Ice Mage[/sub]
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Icarus, if asked later, would never say that he fell screeching from his perch. Certainly not at the stranger's seemingly-sudden arrival. That would have been [i]horrendously[/i] embarrassing if it had happened. Far to much for him to handle if the possibility even crossed his mind.

Recovering from his [i]totally purposeful[/i] descent to foot level, and a quick flap of wings later to restore him to his rocky perch, he appraised the strange person before him. He didn't seem hostile for the moment, but he also clearly wasn't human either. At least to his own understanding, that should have meant the boy there was another student, or otherwise related to the Academy. Not many people from Arcanis Mundus would come over just to hang out in the mountains.
Then again he himself had just decided to hang out in the mountains, but that was different.

[color=CC7722]"I've not lived enough lives to see that come to pass, but I am assured that no matter what we suffer, my kind do always find happiness again, no matter how long the path it takes to return."[/color] Icarus chirruped, fluffing his wings up a bit, eyes tracing the stranger, [color=CC7722]"But who are you to wonder, offering such strange tales of foreign Counts?"[/color]