<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff">Faden smiled the whole while as Vas admired the totem and put it around his neck. He was happy to hear how much he knew about the Tawa and Hopi culture in general and it served only to draw him in closer to the man whom he felt a fast kinship with. I'm a quarter Hopi heritage. My father is half and I was born and raised just outside of Sedona. Hopi spirituality has been with me since birth; and before, if you believe in such things," his smile remained as he looked on the other man warmly.<br/>
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He thought the talisman looked good on him; it fit him and he could see the sun radiance burst into the aura that surrounded Vas. It was a rare sight to see such a thing so vividly and strong; Faden was both amazed and intrigued to witness it as it happened. He rest his fingers lightly around Vas' arm as it clasped his own feeling completely comfortable and softly energized to be near him and touching him.  He briefly caught Pixie's glance back and her grin and it only served to brighten his smile a bit more. With their proximity so close now, he spoke softer and would have simply rest his chin on the other's shoulder had they not been walking as they talked.<br/>
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"I haven't," he confirmed Vas' statement, "and I did. I thought I was just wandering, but now, after coming to this place, that maybe I was being drawn to this place. Sometimes things just happen that way, don't you think?"<br/>
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When Vas brought up his name and the crystal that he wore around his neck, he smile brightened to its full extent and he hugged the other around the shoulders, briefly causing their gait to fumble a bit. The slight fumble in walking rhythm didn't cause any hesitation for him, however, and he let the light embrace take precedence over the logistics of walking in a properly straight line. "Yes! Like the crystal! You know stone lore as well? And, yes! The Faden quartz connects the auric body to others and amplifies the energies of other stones used with it," he looked down affectionately at the stone aorund his neck and brought his hand up to hold it lovingly. "It was the center stone of the crystal mandala placed on my mother's body when I was born; it's her favorite stone. She said she could feel the hand of the cosmic body reach through it, and her, to touch me as I was born."<br/>
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His gaze moved back up to rest on Vas' entrancing eyes. "If you believe in things like that," his eyes then drifted to the the other piece Vas wore around his neck; the elegant, bold fang. "What about your totem? It's an old, wise soul, for sure."</span></span>