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The Rift looked unchanged overall, deep and mysterious and full of Youma in their most 'natural' habitat given their rather, unique forms and lives.
He hadn't delved into the depths of it since he lost Locke, not truly. One day he'd have to see about a new personal Youma, but perhaps not today, but curiosity and a longing for...
Well, for something he'd be unlikely to find, for someone he'd probably never see again.
He felt out the presences around him, some moving away for their own privacy, and others curious about the power he wasn't trying to conceal.

"Hello?" He said after a moment, feeling out a presence that lingered, potentially curious.

"I have been gone for some time." He admitted, letting his gaze drift between the paired heads and their cautiously curious gaze.
"I had duties that carried me far beyond the dark kingdom and only just let me return. I am Zinkenite, do you have a name as well? Or...names?"

He offered his hand, his real hand carefully forward in greeting and to be smelled. He assumed that the other hand would not be as well suited for such endevors, though he had to admit he hoped neither of them were bitten off.

Six months - and no knowledge prior to that. He couldn't help the sensation that ran over his skin, a shiver, a sinking sensation in the pit of his stomach at such a fate, how close he'd been to that once upon a time.

"I am, I am pleased to make your acquaintance, Ethe. You are strong-looking, you... assuredly do us proud."
The words felt hard to come by but he pressed on grasping for something positive to overcome his own personal feelings on the matter.

"Are you, are you content?"

"That's good...that's good, I'm glad you are content. Is there, is there anything that could be done to make you more content?" He offered tentatively.
That something could be a Starseed, which would be reasonable so long as Ethe didn't feel he was offering his own.
Still, if it came down to it he could find one to offer up, there were a few now as trophies on his desk,.

"Well, how good it is then, that I have a few to spare, traitors who thought they were above consequences... as though it would never catch up with them." He sighed and summoned two such crystals. It was sad to know that those officers had chosen that path... they could have made other choices, but they chose to try and undermine the Kingdom from within, and they had died for it.

"Here, one for each of you." He held out one in the palm of each hand.