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[h1][center][color=royalblue]Rufus[/color][/center][/h1][img]http://66.media.tumblr.com/51fc61ac770a524e9468f174afa94d7f/tumblr_inline_n1xc79Kcic1rb3m8r.png[/img][/center]

The group of Devil Hunters before them didn't strike him as the sort weak enough to be contained by a few hasty barriers, but Lumen seemed confident he could delay them, if nothing else, and at the end of the day that was all they needed to do. He wasn't a glutton liable to lose himself to a hunger induced bloodlust, so it wasn't like he needed the extra meat for his freezer from all those hunters.

[color=royalblue]"Alright, just don't get yourself killed while I'm rock picking. The others may get some dirty ideas about me if I leave my partner for dead on the first mission, and I don't need that kind of rep without actually earning it. It's really no fun being accused of a crime if they don't [i]let[/i] you do it, just for funsies~"[/color] 

He favored Limen with a raised thumb before falling through a portal at his feet and rising smoothly further ahead in the forest, locating the rocks by their siren song. Or perhaps it was more apt to think of it like a baby crying out for an adult? Children did have that uncanny ability to draw all sorts to their care, even lion's would rear a gazelle if the circumstances were right. Such flights of fancy amused Rufus as he stooped down, scooping up the first such rock littering the forest. [color=royalblue]"Hey there, little guy. Now, if you don't go blowing my hand off, I'll get you home real soon."[/color]  

Looking about at the scattered singing rocks, he pocketed his first into his cloak and made to do the same to the rest.