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Alex took a half stepped back with an expression a mixture of happiness, surprise, and embarrassment. Mostly embarrassment.

"Th-th-thank you."

Quickly aiming to move the topic elsewhere, he randomly throws out another query.

"S-so, what's your favorite song?"

"Hm?"
She blinks.
"What was it? Is it still there?"
She turns to him, mild concern showing on her face.

He shakes his head "I'm not sure what it was" before looking into Relspi's eyes again.
They were extraordinarily beautiful, a brilliant hue of gorgeous viridian green, but did not have the same hypnotic effect he had experienced before... The thing he had glimpsed was no longer there. If it would ever return, he had no idea.

"I can't see it anymore, either... Your eyes are still beautiful without it, though." he added.

God, he was so ANGRY at himself for saying such a ridiculous thing, why was he even letting himself be swayed by that harlot anyway, she wasn't anything spec-
Alex shakes his head to clear the weird unbidden thoughts that had found their was into his head. There was nothing wrong with that.

Alex nods thoughtfully.

"I suppose I can see where you're coming from, though it's a bit weird that you're talking about humans like they're entirely separate from you. As far as I can see, you're entirely normal, not like the wolfthing or the birdman. Though I do suppose there was that one, um..."

He blushes, probably recalling what happened earlier.

((I thought about pudding something like "Octopi" or "Squid" there, but it wouldn't have made any sense as he doesn't know about Rel's Eldritchn Tentacles.))

"...umm... I like-"
The sound that proceeds to emanate from her mouth fills all who hear it with an immense sense of dread.
"- because it sounds sort of... pretty?"

Alex was totally oblivious, and didn't feel the dread, or hear anything more than a quiet mumble for that matter. He was about to ask Relspi to repeat herself more clearly, but... Suddenly decided that he wouldn't.

"If you think it's beautiful, I'm sure it is. What's for favorite instrument? Mine's probably all the members of the Violin family, sans the double bass. The mournful music is sublime."

"Ah, I see."
She nods, and doesn't elaborate further.

"Is there anything you'd like to know about me, or am I going to have to ask all the questions?" he asked, with a cheerful grin.

"Yes, that's true, there's so much variety that it can be really hard to choose. It's like when people ask what your favorite song is, no easy way to narrow things down. Though, are you all right? Is your throat sore?"

Alex looked quite genuinely worried.

Rather than playing I might be interested in Co-GMing. Do you still need/want one, Xvar? Or have I disqualified myself by asking in this thread rather than posting?

"I think yours is perfectly interesting. Much more interesting than my own, because..."

he adds, with an embarrassed smile.

"I'm not even sure what yours does."

Alex wasn't sure it'd be very easy to figure out, either, with his utter lack of magical knowledge.

"Um... So, what sort of things are you interested in? What do you like to do?"