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Red, on the other hand, was not sad at all that he might never see this place again. In fact, he probably wished he never saw this place again. This more magic stuff was miles above hus understanding and he had no problems leaving such dealings to the others.

The library was also boring to him, but he was willing to put up with it. He certainly did not want to sleep - he had the sinking feeling he had done too much of that. Way too much of that.

Beside, he had too many things to think about, and most importantly a guardian to find. But first, he had a rather daunting task ahead of him - remembering.

'I'm game for the library.' Dio would probably become so immersed in the books that he'd have plenty of room to think, anyway.

Dio glanced up at Red and he couldn't help but be a little concerned as he started floating after Nesh. 'Are you sure you're up to it? You just had a huge ordeal. I mean if you would rather rest, I understand.' He could tell the larger fiend was likely brooding, and he didn't like a grumpy Red. In this case however, he doubted he could do anything to alleviate the situation. Somehow Zero was missing, and he wanted to ask a bazillion questions about it, but knew that would likely only make things worse.

Instead he turned his attentions to the boy that was leading them through the maze of the Athan man's house. He unwrapped himself from Red long enough to dart forward and touch Nesh on the arm. 'Thank you for showing us the way. I didn't catch your name before, are you a friend of the Athan man? Do you live here? How old are you? I bet it's wonderful to live here, surrounded by so many books and things. Do you like to read? I do.. I love to read.' The black fiend slipped back into old habits. The evening had worn him down; he was drained from the flight to the shop, and emotionally tired from worrying about Red. It left him without some of his hard won social graces.

The young man's eyes went wide at the sudden onslaught of questions. "My name is Holicinesh," he told him with a polite smile, "But you can call me 'Nesh. Most everyone does."

He treaded forward through a dark hallway, pausing only briefly to light up a small rune. He waved the glowing marking into what looked like an old oil lamp that was mounted on the wall. It settled into the bottom of the lamp and with a brief whoosh sound all the surrounding lamps lamps one by one in a chain reaction that lead down the hallway.

He smiled again. He liked that spell.

"I do live here, and uhm... Athan is my adoptive uncle," he answered. It felt weird calling him by his first name rather than Uncle. "I'm not precisely certain how old I am to be honest," he went on with a puzzled look, "Uncle says I'm physically about fourteen, but I've actually only been alive for a couple of years. Weird, huh?"

He stopped before a grand, ornately carved doorway with a brighter smile than before. "I do love to read. I spend a lot of time in here."

'Nesh pushed open the heavy doors to the library with a bit of effort and went inside. The library was his most favorite place in the world. There was an endless supply of books for him to read, to include blank ones he could use for journaling and studying.

"There's actually a large guest room right across the hallway," he said as he pointed, "You could stay there if you want."

Merci was scared of Athan... ? Well, that was strange. He had never quite noticed. Red certainly felt more inclined not to piss Athan off, if only because he'd seen what the man could do, and even if he had not already have had impression, well... Today might have likely changed his mind on that.

And, well, he had no intention to die, especially now that he had come quite close to it.

'Gaia is full of strange beings.' Most notably them, through Dio had mentioned that first, making a low rumble of amusement come from within the snake-like fiend. 'Zero has-' He stopped himself then, remembering what had happened. 'My guardian had a son. He was more or less an adult in spite of only being about 4 years old.'

He and Sei had never seen eye-to-eye, and the only thing the two had in common had been similar, life-depending bonds to the same woman. They had never considered each other as brothers. They had fought more or less constantly, each seeing the other as a threat to Zero's life, and therefore to their own safety. Both their bonds had brought their own trouble to Zero, who thankfully had always been strong enough to withstand it all.

As much as Red could never stand the brat, well, he had not deserved death. It did make him angry, but thankfully the arrived the library before he could elaborate, and anger was one again replaced with amusement, as one large, red hand passed in front of Dio's face a few times.

'Yeah. We lost him.' Came the obvious, amused wisecrack.