— On the main floor of this grand estate of decadent cerulean shades, masterful artwork, and glittering marble, music wafted through the air, and to it danced the masked multitudes of aristocrats and high nobility alike-- a ball, if it could be called that, organized by some wheedling lord who hoped to impress all present. A few floors below that gathering, however, where the light was dim, the air was heavy, and the sound of music a muffled, distant discordance, there was a monster and their prey.
"Thank you for being a behaved audience."
Jin was not alone, though. No, beyond the now lifeless corpse within his grasp, there was another soul who had watched this wicked deed play out, and it's to them he spoke.
"Eidenai... Tenebrin, yes that's your name," Jin says, as he turned to look at Eidenai, his monstrous visage clear to them, from the blood and last glowing vestiges of the poor victim's Soul dripping down his razor filled maw, to the sheer inhuman curves and depths of his facial features, "you were on this one's mind in their last moments; they were lamenting how their love for you went unrequited, and how their death would ensure it forever stayed that way."
Jin drops the body of his victim to the ground, and the moment they hit the marble their form fades into dust, leaving behind little more than clothes that once covered them.
"Tragic, oh how tragic," Jin says with a smooth chuckle, his features suddenly changing; his razored maw was now less so, and his face was more human-like, charming even, in a baleful sort of way, much like his tone and the piercing gaze that fell upon Eidenai, the only things truly betraying this transformation being the scene at hand, and the blood still around his lips, "but not a tragedy you care for I assume."
Jin begins pacing around somewhat, weaving behind and in front of various marble pillars slowly, calmly, though not without purpose and most assuredly not without menace.
"Did you enjoy this show?" as Jin moves, he watches Eidenai closely, flashing them a most wicked grin, "surely it must have been more entertaining than the charade unfolding above us, if it kept you from returning." // @infernalmere