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[sub][color=7b5d92]✧     Location: Soft Haven - Road to Bounty House  ✧     Purse: 20 copper     ✧  Interactions: [@Hero] ✧[/color][/sub][/center]

Ermes couldn't help but notice the woman's starring. He matched her gaze with a deadpan stare, waiting for whatever marvel she was looking at to wear off. Given the choices he figured it was either his hair, his height, or his age. All of which had been centerholds for conversations whenever he first met someone. That is if they didn't just avoid him entirely. A part of him wanted to roll his eyes at her, it wasn't her fault by any means, after all she just met him, but he'd met dozens of her before. Ermes was waiting for all the usual questions to come in, but to his surprise there were none. Or at the very least none that were common.

His eyes widened slightly as she mentioned his current state of being alone, before following up with strange statements. [Color=7b5d92]"Uh…"[/color] His mouth went agape trying to think of how to answer her, when she walked past him and continued on the way without him. Ermes quickly turned around, doubling his steps just to catch up with her before finally keeping pace alongside. [Color=7b5d92]"I didn't [i]know[/i] that there was something out here. I woke up and the ground around me was clawed up quite deep. There was the feeling of a dreadful presence though…I don't feel it anymore. But the marks on this path are relatively fresh so I figure it's still out there. Besides, it's not like it could just vanish."[/color] He punctuated the ending with a sarcastic tone, shrugging his shoulders as if to say he had no further explanation for the events.

He continued to look at her for a moment as they walked. Clearly in thought as to something she had said. [Color=7b5d92]"You mentioned Genesians. What is that? And why do you study them?"[/color] Ermes asked as his deadpan expression turned into one more for curiosity. He'd heard the word before, heard it whispered around Wilree or mention of it in talks he eavesdropped on, but never learned its actual meaning. Till now, he had assumed it was some form of slur. His dark eyes fixated on the strange cloaked woman, trying to peer through the hood and see what it was she was hiding.