After sliding the paper back to him, she shuffled her papers again, bringing back the sketch she’d done of the two across the table. As Grace questioned Joel, she kid a little grin and shaded in a few little details. After a beat, side-eyeing Joel, she started asking the brunette about the book she was reading.
Shimmer had always rather liked children, but she found herself hanging on to every word the little girl said, cracking up at some of the little ideas she came up with, and asking her questions about the book Joel seemed to be reading her. This of course, launched into a full scale summation of the book so far, completely with all her observations, questions and doubts about each event and character, as Shim nodded her head and chatted with her about it.
When she got the paper back, she blanched slightly, her eyes flicking up to look at him seriously as her pen hung in the air just over his question. After a beat, she worried the corner of her lip, wiggled her nose a bit and started to figure out how exactly she was going to go about spilling her secrets in a town diner.
Well, I’m a Fae, that’s my species. Homo sapiens fae instead of Homo sapiens sapiens. Not all Fae are…different. Some are mundane, ordinary, like humans. You could be a Fae and never even know it, if your parents were mundane too. But the ones who are different, have classifications, of sorts. I’m a Classification Succubus, Soul Energy specialization. She hesitated for another beat, carefully not looking up at him, worried he’d take her hesitation the wrong way. It’s definitely the coolest of classifications, definitely not the most powerful, and it doesn’t mean much most of the time. But it is one of the few with Aural Viewing, and one of only two or three that see auras passively, without having to expend energy for it.
Can I ask what she is? Originally, she’d just written, so what’s Grace?, but at the last second, decided he might not be willing to say, and didnt want to make things tense. If not, can I ask how exactly you knew what you were getting into?
Once she was finished with her Harry Potter tirade, Grace abandoned her crayons and clambered to her feet on her seat. Joel, whose attention was focused on reading the note in front of him, absently curled his right arm around her to keep her from falling, though he didn't demand that she sit down.
The brunette used her newly acquired height to peek over the booth and make eye contact with the bus boy standing at the counter, drying off a set of cutlery. He was Connie's grandson -- a sweet kid, still in high school, and always ready and waiting to entertain the small child whenever they visited. From all the way across the diner, he pulled funny faces at her, to which she responded with a few of her own.
Joel took this time to let Shimmer's information sink in. He'd learned a little about Fae from his parents, but none of them had ever known much about the different Classifications. Unfortunately, however, he knew more about Succubi than he did Fae in general -- they tended to have more of a bad reputation with hunters, he supposed.
Most of what she said, he understood, but there were a few things he'd like clarification on at one point or another.
I'm a hunter. One in a family of them. We've dealt with her kind before. We were the ones who killed her parents. Now, you can consider that an answer to your question, or you can consider it a warning -- that's your choice. I just want you to know that she's protected.
Grace is... We think she's a skinwalker. Both of her parents were, but we're not sure how reproduction works within that species, and she hasn't given us any irrefutable evidence yet.
Joel reread his response and wondered how, exactly, Shimmer had managed to force him to trust her within the space of what seemed like five minutes. He scratched at his jaw, where stubble had begun to form over the past day or two of intense research, and scribbled down his next question.
Have you killed anyone? He began to slide the paper across the table again, but changed his mind and added, Anyone who didn't deserve it? to limit his hypocrisy in the matter, before relinquishing the paper back to the redhead once more.