Alexis
She needs to get out! She really wants to get out! The tightness in her throat felt like its making it hard to breath. Her skin felt very clammy and damp that now turned to frost. A cold fog cloud streamed from the sides of her mask like smoke. The walls are beginning to close in on her. Rai opened her window before climbing out, sliding partially down the wall before kicking off it and rolling across the damp ground. She's booking it for the woods to escape many eyes that watched her go. Ignoring the branches brushing against her mask with thunking sounds. She skid a corner leaving a mark through the moss where she turns to hide behind a leafless tree. Her gloved hands are covering over her masked face, trembling alone.
Rebekah
And she'd be alone, for a while. Until someone else came to bother her. A familiar face. A very stern one with an annoyed expression.
She'd hear it well in advance. Maybe she let the landscape scrape away at her, but Evan took care to push away and step around branches and uneven rocks, despite his displeasure.
"Hey," He snaps his fingers to try and catch her attention once he was close enough, "Hey, you. What the hell are you doing here?"
Alexis
Where she remain there for a long time have caused parts of the ground and tree to be slightly frosted. She was sitting down curled up with her back lean against the trunk. Rai lost some control over her transformation from the fight or fright response. Her mask is now worn over a second one that is her actual face. Her wood like claws shredded through her leather gloves. Even her long otterlike tail had grown out coiled beneath her feet. Parts of her jacket was ripped from getting snagged by some thorns and branches when she came pushing through them. When a sound of brush moved, she gave a shaky gasp as she looked up. Then finally notices a dark figure casting their shadow over her. Rai nearly jumped out of her skin but soon recognizes his voice. "Ev-Evan...?" She turns her attention to him. Shakily she stood up but something about her form was slightly off.
Rebekah
Maybe it was a mean comment to make of someone, but Evan kind of expected Rai to be the kind of person to... Break down like this sooner or later. And it wasn't a pretty scene to behold. He looked across the frost she's spread across her immediate vicinity.

"That's me," He says, "You let your power show, but whatever."
He sucks in a deep breath, pulls his coat closer over his front, before he steps closer into her area of effect. He was pretty used to the cold. He could stomach it- but it doesn't mean he liked it. "What the hell happened now?" He asks.
Alexis
Her snout draws pass the line of darkness to show her dark maw with her signature mask worn on the forehead. The long, earthy colors of hair appeared to be a mane of ribbons. Then it appears her arms have grown a little longer with claw like hands. When he asked there was a pressuring that weighed down on her chest. She open her maw to speak but no words came out, but she lit the dark from the white glow in her mouth, revealing her predatory teeth. Then her round illuminating eyes wavered with tears that stream down her cheeks. "I-I don't know! I don't u-understand I-I.." She seizes up when she starts wiping away the tears with the back of her sleeve. Seeing him there was a relief that someone is familiar is here. Without thinking, she didn't hesitate to embrace him. "I-It was so hard to breath, I-I don't know how to people and the walls st-started to close in!" She was a babbling cold mess. Very emotional. It was this moment when her tone sound kind of like a girl? It was difficult to tell. "I-I didn't know what to do! F-Felt so stupid and lost!" The girl was quivering like a rattle.
Rebekah
He squints a bit as she babbles on, only to flinch and step back when she suddenly reaches out to embrace him. But it happens in the end. He furrows his bushy brows as he parses what happened...

"You're cold." He comments. He doesn't have a follow up to it, except a small pause as he moves on to his next point. "What you're supposed to do? Duck and cry in a forest definitely isn't it." He says. "Go try and find staff, maybe. They're supposed to help. Pernilla is a nice person." Maybe too nice, in his opinion of her.
"You're not lost. You can always stay in your room."
He wasn't about to exactly embrace her back, but he does put a hand on her shoulder. Not much he can do, and he wasn't about to tell her off when she was about to cry.

"Just... Tell me when you can actually talk." He sighs.
Alexis
She sniffles. Rai just didn't know what to do or handle the emotions that she first experience was frightening. Evan was much taller than her was enough for her bury her face into his chest. "O-Okay.." Rai blinks away her tears. It took her a moment to try collect herself after regaining her composure. The cold seem to ease in response when she collected enough strength to calm down. Then she notices Evan smells kind of nice? But doesn't comment about it. She'll pull away letting him go to wipe away her tears. At least she isn't quivering anymore. "Ev..." She says, her tone soft. "Wh-What m-made you come out here..?"
Rebekah
Evan steps back when it seemed like Rai could stand by herself. That same stern expression is present on his face, but it seems like its eased up a bit. In its place, a bit of exhaustion.

"I saw you run out here like a mess, dumbass." He chides her a bit. "Even if we're in a private facility, places like the woods makes me feel anxious. Bad stuff always happens in the woods." Paranoia and bad personal history.
So he supposes he panicked a bit, which he won't mention.

"If you were so panicked you'd run out here, I don't know what else you'd do. So I had to check on you. I didn't want to wake up to a dead body in the woods, or some shit."
Alexis
Her round glowing eyes flickered as if blinking before tilting her head slightly. "I-I've stayed in the wilderness all my life... Since I-I was a smol kid.." She pauses for a moment to reconsider what he recently said. "Oh.." Rai said with an expression that something dawn on her. Then soon that expression soften up with her mouth turning into a horizontal '3' that look almost like a cat. Her glowing round eyes shimmer when her wooden triangle ears pins back. This somehow killed the cold in her heart that left her feeling less scared. Much as she wants to hug him one more time, she respected his boundaries as she held her arms up to her chest with her clawlike hands curled into a fist. Then seeing his eyes for a second made her look down bashfully. "Ev... Th-thanks..." She says softly.
Rebekah
He rubs his forehead a bit, brows still furrowed as if he has a headache. "You're welcome." He says in an unenthused voice. "Then you more than anyone should know how scary the wilderness can be. You have a room with walls to choose over this place."

He rolls his eyes a bit. He raises a brow at her demeanor, but doesn't comment on it further. "So do you want to head back yet, or do you still plan to mope around here a bit more?" He shoves his hands in his pockets.
"At least you've calmed down a bit."
Alexis
"N-not really... I think humans are sc-scarier... And al-all their weird rules... They're too unpredictable." Raizel pauses for a second, replying with shaking her head. "No... Not... Going... To keep... B-being scared.." Rai is trying to muster up the tiny ball of courage she had inside. Much as she hates to go back where the people are, this girl gave herself a reason to return. One, so she doesn't make Ev worried. Two, so the other doesn't have to stay in the woods which makes him uncomfortable.
Rebekah
Evan quietly stares at her for a few seconds. She does have a point.
"Well, not like we have a choice." He says. "This is your life now. It may suck, sure, but its best if you learn how to live with it."
He shakes his head a bit. "I think you're weird and unpredictable too, you know." He says. "But in the end, I don't think you're a bad person."

"That's how I feel about people, at least."
He raises a brow. "If you're scared, tell me now."
Alexis
"Not when you're around," She says, trying her very best not to stutter. It sound a lot nice without falter in her soft voice. She's trying to grow this courage. This meager courage to face society and the strange posh building. "O-okay... Maybe... A little.." She pressed her eyes shut with some glow peaking out, creating two illuminating arrows pointing at each others.
Rebekah
He raises a brow. "Well, I won't always be around." He says. "So you better work on it."
He shakes his head a bit. "No choice, I suppose." He says, as he sits down on the floor of the wilderness. "I'm used to the wilderness too."
"No need to rush. You'll spend hours in those places sooner or later, anyway."
Alexis
Her ears lowers, understanding that he's right. When he plops down to sit on the earthy, not long after, she sits down with her legs crossed. Her long otter like tail move to the right which angled itself in a 'C' shape when it rested beside her. It was slick and black with tribal markings engraving it. "Ev... Were... You always alone when you were s-scared?"
Rebekah
"Alone when I was scared?" He asks. He wasn't entirely sure what she meant.
"Well sure. But its not like it was special." He says. "I'd leave my home and family for days, so it makes sense I'd be alone. I'd be satisfied alone. I'd be mad alone. I'd be scared alone. That was my choice."
Alexis
"I am... S-struggling to empathize.." Her glowing eyes become lined slights when she tilts her head, trying to understand what he is really saying. "Family? Not sure... What its like to have one... Was abandoned in the winter. So... L-loneliness doesn't bother you?"