Ryū Teinó snorted.<b>"It was a little over eighteen months ago. My.... family.... was quite traditional and followed Bushido. My mother had recently been diagnosed with a virulent strain of leukemia that had been running rather rampant in India and China so my father brought her back home to be checked over.... a few weeks later he went missing... the only thing I found was that he apparently suspected that something was off with what happened with my mother. Unfortunately, within three months, my mother had passed," </b>he said softly as he frowned slightly.<b>"Officially, they claimed she had passed from a cranial edema, which made me suspicious," </b>he said quietly. Though he didn't comment on her beauty.<br/><br/><br/><b>"I checked her medical files and found she'd suffered a fractured sternum two weeks before I had been contacted of her passing," </b>he said softly as he shivered slightly.<b>"A couple of weeks after that, I had been preparing a meal when I noticed a slight cracking sound like a branch had fallen... then.... I heard the sizzling before the detonation... the blast hurled me through the banister of the staircase, which by the way was a solid piece of an oak tree... hurt like hell... thought I'd shattered something, but when the propane tank blew.... I don't know how to explain it. The fire was more like a dull aching itch than searing pain... I noticed, when the flames touched me... it was like a bluish purple aura of light flickered at the contact," </b>he said softly as he had found that it wasn't that unusual to have some limited resistance to an elemental's affinity.<br/><br/><b>"More recently... I've notice an odd.... effect.... when I'm around shadows... it's almost as if they.... come alive... around me," </b>he said softly as he ate. THAT, he suspected, was very odd, as he'd heard of rare elemental users that could manipulate more than one element, such as a female cryomancer who could project her aura as either bursts of superchilled air or water, the latter being more dangerous. Fortunately, the girl in question was only an underground fighter and brawler rather than someone like him - a hunter.