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"Come along Cordelia." Ebony announced loudly to her lagging charge. Since being cured, the smoke Raevan had pretty much kept herself locked in her room and under the covers, rarely coming out other wise. So the Brit felt as her guardian it was her duty to make sure the girl didn't sleep her life away. Most especially since she was still pretty new to the world and there was lots to experience and see. "This will be fun, you'll see."

She wasn't happy. In fact, Cordelia was down right miserable. Why? Why did her woman feel it necessary to drag her all over the place in the middle of all this cold? Yuck, cold. The snake made a face and floated even more slowly behind Ebony before ultimately stopping. That was it, she'd had enough and refused to go any further. Crossing her arms over her thickly clothed chest, Delia watched as the distance between her and the violet haired human gradually grew until she was almost lost in the crowd that filled said space.

A sly smile crept along her dark lips at having easily ditched her guardian. Apparently there were major advantages to being a mute. Perhaps she ought to keep that in mind for the future. But right now it was time to find something warm to snuggle up against. If she could find some smoke, she was surely going to find a fire and thus heat. Tentatively the Basilisk sniffed the air before licking her lips over and over again. She thought she could smell something off in the distance to the right and so that's where she went.

Weaving through the building traffic with ease and grace, Cordelia was on route towards what she suspected to be a perfect heating source for her cold half body. To her utter dismay the source of smoke was that of a grill, busy cooking ears of corn for the multitude of bipeds walking past. The Basilisk folder her arms and pouted. She was really starting to hate this festival. As she could see it, the place was devoid of any fun.

Since she was there, Delia figured she'd might as well sample the meal at hand and sucked in a few breathes of the billowing smoke casually. While she feed the dark girl took to watching the people and things around her at the moment. Suddenly a quick movement dashing between the feet of the humans caught the Raevan's interest. It stopped momentarily to rake its small paws over its face several times before bounding off once more. Just as quickly, Cordelia was slithering after the little brown mouse. Although she could not eat the rodent nor did she have any real desire to, the snake had this overwhelming need to give chase to it. It wasn't food, but it was still prey and prey was meant to be tracked. She wasn't quite sure what she'd do to the tiny creature once she'd caught it, but up until that exact moment of decision, Delia would create her own fun.

Several times she got close only to have to pull back when the critter dashed between the legs of a human and she'd have to go around, costing her valuable time. Yet now she was getting so very close and there were no humans getting in the way this time. Slowly her sharp nails reached out, getting ready to snap shut like a venus flytrap did when a fly landed in its sticky trap. Cordelia was so focused on her little game of serpent and mouse that it would be far too late for her to notice the other giving chase as well, yet from the opposite direction and heading straight for her.

There was a loud resounding crack as skull met skull on a most literal head on collision anyone had ever witnessed. Not that anyone stopped to actually see if the two were okay since well...they looked so strange and kind of scary with their dark colors and sharp features. Hell even a few parents quickly ushered their children away from the scene should the floating half people decided to get into a fight due to the accidental run in. Which was still a possibility depending on how the rest of this went down.

Cordelia hissed and moaned loudly in pain, cradling her splitting head as tiny tears slide down her cheeks. That really hurt! What hit her? She was pretty sure nothing was there a moment before, then again the mouse had been the ultimate center of her world at the time. Nevertheless, nothing should have been there! Didn't it know better than to get in the way of a tracking Raevan?!

Rubbing her face to numb the throbbing pain and to restore her blurred vision, the Basilisk looked to see her assailant. Cordelia immediately forgot her pain as her silver orbs grew impossibly wide at the sight before her. She couldn't help but gape a bit at the other. The great likeness of a dark palette as well as the scaled texture was so very similar to her own and yet not!

Because she wasn't sure whether her vision could be trusted due to her fairly recent crash, Delia tentatively reached a hand out and gently poked the others nose. Hmm...he seemed solid enough to be real and not a hallucination. Slowly again, the snake gave a sheepish smile and raised her hand into a tiny wave of greeting.

With every tick of the minutes passing by while this male Frei examined her who was examining him, Cordelia's smile gradually grew until it burst from corner to corner in a wide gash of pearly whites. There was just something so very familiar about him and yet she couldn't quite figure out why. Perhaps their ownership of scaly attire was the linking clue?

She giggled when he pressed his hand flat against hers. It was cold like her own, but it was so much bigger! Like it could easily engulf hers completely should he choose to wrap those thick fingers around her slender ones. Her onyx head shifted from side to side when the other quickly retreated the previously offered hand and flipped his hood back up, casting shadows over his sharp features once more. Now it was Cordelia's turn to pout. Did he suddenly conclude that he did not like her? Unacceptable!

Cautiously as not to seem threatening, for Cordelia was most alert of the fact of this Raevan being a predator like herself, the dark female slid closer. Slowly she raised her hand and lightly tapped the area of her collar bone. "Cordelia." The Basilisk then proceeded to mimic the action by tapping his chest but allowing the silent question to hang in the air as she patiently awaited his answer.

She giggled again at his playful means of pulling at his hood in excitement. It was a very cool accessory to have and she may have been a tad jealous of his having one and her without. Alas this thought was soon pushed aside from the forefront of her mind in favor of awaiting his answer to her question. Cordelia swayed excitedly from side to side, gaining momentum as she did. Truly, she wished the boy would hurry up in understanding and lavish her with his own name. Or did he not want to share that little bit of information? The negative thought dimmed her smile just the slightest.

Just when she was going to give up hope that he would never answer, the other Frei finally did. The exaggerated way in which he produced the 's' sound in the middle of his name made Delia's eyes grow wide again once more. It was much like the hissing she was prone to throwing out every so often when something was threatening her or such. Smile returning to the illuminating glory of prior, the snake reproduced the name in a softer tone, but in much the same manner. "Basil." And then she gently patted his cold cheek with her equally so hand, her normal means of greeting.

Basil's next words made Cordelia tilt her head again in confusion. Where were they? How would she answer that kind of question? First, she hadn't really the littlest inkling of what town this was because of how upset she'd been earlier and second, the girl simply had no other words in her vocal arsenal. With a shrug of her shoulders, the girl shook her black locks.

Meanwhile, Ebony had finally noticed her charge's disappearance and was frantically running around and back tracking through the crowd shouting the girl's name. At times she even gave in and called out the loathsome nickname the snake had given to herself in hope that she would hear and sudden appear.

Honestly, now that she'd found Basil, Cordelia's woman had all but been forgotten in lieu of her new fascinating friend. She was eager for them to go and explore this strange town and its current activities now that she wasn't unhappy, but was unable to voice that opinion. Oh if she only knew that the hooded boy was younger than her and yet already held a stronger grasp of the human language. Though perhaps it was a good thing she didn't know since she'd find it utterly unfair.

"Genie?" she asked repeating the only word she felt confident in repeating. Was that his guardian then? And she was lost? That finally made her think of Ebony. She wasn't lost, but her whereabouts were unknown which was rather unfortunate now that Cordelia needed her. Maybe she shouldn't had ran off on her own, then again if she hadn't then she wouldn't had met Basil either and then wouldn't need her guardian for help. Oh now her head hurt.

Her unblinking stare meet his as she waited for him to continue if he had more things to say or take initiative and start them in a direction. Neither happened as the cobra merely continued to clasp her hand tight and his mouth went slack. For a moment Delia only thought the boy thinking, but when he just kept staring at her like that with no light in his dark eyes...it sort of made her uncomfortable, which was really saying something with how she stared at people herself all the time.

Tempted by the unusual circumstance, the Basilisk wanted to poke him again to see whether or not he was still there, but she didn't get the chance as his smile returned to his face finally. How strange. Oh well, Basil seemed fine now so they could get on with their quest to find his woman. But since she had no idea what his guardian looked like, maybe they ought to find hers. After all it wasn't that hard to spot Ebony in a crowd, her vivid violet hair like a beacon in the night.

"Ebby." she confirmed aloud with a nod. Tightening the grip of their joined hands, Cordelia carefully wove them through the traffic of the humans, keeping an eye out for any sign of her woman. She couldn't have gotten too far, she couldn't float like them and thus was slower in a sense.

With the combined grace and objective driven focus of an assassin, Cordelia was able to move them through the crowd without much trouble. At the same time, no one seemed to even give much attention to the two half bodies floating hurriedly amongst them. It was as if they were nothing more than ghosts to them. It probably would have been wise for her to start calling out for her woman, but the smoke Raevan wasn't so confident of how well her soft, wispy like voice would carry in all this activity. No doubt it would simply disappear into the massive void of sound, never reaching the Brit's ears even if she happened to be close by.

So the best Delia could do was keep trudging along and looking. Every so often she would look back to Basil though just to make sure the boy was still there even though the snakes had never let go of each others hands. Content to see he was still with her, at least physically, she would smile happily towards him before turning her attention back to her search.

After a few moments of drifting about, the Basilisk was starting to doubt whether they would find her Ebby. There were a couple of times she thought she'd spotted the purple haired female only to realize it was someone else. And since Basil hadn't said anything yet, she assumed he hadn't spotted his Genie either. Thus Cordelia stopped abruptly and huffed in frustration. Where were they?

And as if by magic, Ebony was summoned to them, the British woman turning a corner only to stop and do a double take in surprise. "Ebby!" she cooed at her guardian as if nothing had happened.

Once Ebony's initial shock wore off and her relief washed over, her anger took its place. "Cordelia Shade! Where have you been?! Do you know how worried I was! I've been looking all over fo-..." Her sentence was cut off when she noticed the other with her charge. A Raevan she'd never seen before and yet he looked so very familiar. "Uh, whose this?"

Her guardian's anger not even registering with the snake, Delia carefully ushered the cobra forward with a smile. Pointing to the Brit first, "Ebby." Then pointing to the male Frei, "Basil."