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It was just another day to the Concord home, though no one other than the boys bore that last name in the household itself. Algie wasn't much of a dominator and this house would remain the home of his daughter and her husband, despite his caretaking. He would keep it safe until their return, whenever that was. As a normal day, most of the inhabitants were busy. Hela was shopping and Otium was keeping to himself. Alex was... off doing whatever he did. Algie liked the quiet though and he was quite content just doing his various researches in the study.

It wasn't unheard of to have callers at the door, especially when a teenage social butterfly shared your home with you. Despite Hela's odd appearance she seemed to be quite popular. Algie headed for the front door with Fizzy on his shoulder, perfectly balanced and bright eyed to whoever this visitor was. Algie had managed to do a little work with Bloodstone, securing him magically into a ring that he wore on his index finger. It ensured that the stone was always close to him and that if anything were wrong, he would feel it.

Fizzgig mewed loudly as he opened the door to this visitor. He was prepared for some wide eyed, well dressed teenaged boy. Hawk was certainly not what he was expecting.

"Ah.. Why hello." He gave the fiend a gentle smile, recognizing him but not very familiar. Fizzy, on the other hand, seemed adorably suspicious.

"Ahh.." Realization dawned on him for a moment and he reached up to calm his tiny guard upon his shoulder. "Come in.. come in.." Algie adjusted his glasses and gave Hawk a quick once over. His sharp mind had put things together from this new visitor's comments.

"I'm sorry that I seem rather clueless." He closed the door behind Hawk as he entered. "I assume you would be Wren's shadow fiend then? What do you like to be called?" He rubbed his hand across the gently pulsing stone on his finger. It seemed to react positively against his skin upon Hawk's arrival. Algie was glad to discover that the stone had become more active as of late.

"Halo and Wren both left us all rather high and dry." He nodded back into the house. "We are dealing alright. The family is slowly piecing itself together." Slowly but surely.

"Is this about.. Wren? Or perhaps this little guy?" He pulled the ring from his finger and what had appeared like solid metal melted like mercury and then disappeared into nothing, leaving only Bloodstone on his palm.

"Sorry, she's not open to new things." Algie noticed his kitten's behavior and patted her on the head. "Nothing personal."

He observed the fiend's change in appearance upon entering the house and also seemed to catch on to a few of the more 'wren-like' details. The wizard was being careful to absorb any information he could. He was preparing himself for the reality of a living thing being reliant on his own soul.

"We are waiting, patiently. She calls every now and again but never gives any details." It was nice to know she was alive, but she did seem more brief and vague with every call.

His head dropped to the stone when Hawk reached out for it. He felt it flutter again. The last time it felt that way was when they'd first been bonded. This fluttering was different though, more positive. He'd been spending the hour before bed every night just in meditation, something he had done since his late twenties. He hoped this stone was benefited with such a simple act of his every day life. "It's been more active recently. I'm told that it may emerge completely changed from it's last physical state. Will it remember all hat's happened?"

"I fear that Halo's connection to Wren," that forged years ago, the initial meeting and summoning of the demon,"is harming her more than she lets on. I do know that part of her journey is figuring out how to deal, or what to do." Algie shook his head. Upon coming to Port Gino he'd learned just how little he knew about magic in the grander scheme of things.

He observed the fiend touch Bloodstone and could not help but question him on it. "Are the fiends connected?" He knew that they were all, on some level tied to Athan. He once again reminded himself that he wanted to attempt to pick Athan's brain if the other would allow it.

"On one hand, I'd like him to forget the harm that came to him in his time with my daughter, but on the other I think he could learn from it and perhaps it would make him stronger." Algie didn't even entertain the notion that perhaps his daughter's time with the fiend would influence the being in a negative way and that was a definite possibility.

"Is there any advice or help you can give me? Can you tell me what Bloo was like?" He'd been given mostly generalizations and Otium, who had been extensively tutored by the young fiend, always made everything seem so depressing.

Algie chuckled and even looked slightly sheepish as he was reminded just how transparent he could be sometimes. "I am a bit of a researcher. I am trying, my best really, to be more of a nurturer. It's difficult as a scholar to take a step back and relax. Old habits die hard."

"Calm is good. I am rather calm myself. I think that calm attitude may have harmed him when it came to my daughter." Algie's brows knitted as he thought. He wouldn't want to encourage any sort of agressive attitude, but a little more assertiveness would be good.

"I suppose it's not my decision to make. I know of the healing properties of bloodstone, which is why I suppose he was so peaceful. He may have, may still yet, develop some great healing abilities.." Algie was sort of stating facts aloud now, more than he was having a conversation. "Also the Christian church believes that Bloodstone is literally touched by the blood of Christ. Of course I have no idea if that would mean anything at all, but it certainly would explain his spirituality. As a wizard I am not so much into religion...."

Algie sort of snapped out of it for a moment, his brilliant emerald eyes blinking into Hawk's blank ones.

"I'm doing it again... aren't I?" He probably seemed like a flake, or someone completely inequipped to deal with the responsibility. It was difficult when the subject in question was, as they spoke, no more than a stone!

Algie placed the stone in Hawk's outstretched palm.

"Well most children, whether human or otherwise, dislike peace!" Algie laughed. It was a genuine laugh of understanding from someone who knew all about raising children. Everywhere he turned there were more young ones who needed his assistance. It was funny to him, considering how he spent his younger years.

The elder wizard did nod his head in appreciation of what Hawk said. "I must admit to just being nervous." Nervous because of the state of the stone in his charge and nervous because when it came to life, if magic couldn't fix it.... well then sometimes he was just at a loss.

"Well that'll be a change around here. The boys have all grown and while some of them may keep to themselves, boys will be boys." He'd caught Otium and Alex wrestling the other day. It wasn't clear if it was malicious or for fun (you couldn't often tell with boys) but they'd almost cracked open a vase that shouldn't be broken.

Amongst those day to day memories Hawk would see all the attention that Bloo had put into the children. He'd spent large amounts of time trying to tutor them and most of that time was with Otium. It was clear how withdrawn Otium had gotten, but he had grown tall and had learned the fighting skills amazingly well.

Also among the memories was the nightmare creature that Bloodstone had battled, wrapped up in visions and memories, and finally trapped within the jade lion statue that still sat in the study of the house.

Algie was comfortable with the brief silence that Hawk's examination gave them. In fact, he was rather curious. "Do you... see anything?"