Hana barely took notice of Crone as he quickly made his way to her side of the counter, which left her unprepared for the poke to the back of her head.  Her expression quickly changed to suprise as he did so, but sank back into a hard frown.  As much as she hated the situation, Crone was right.  She needed to try and lighten up or else their time together would be even worse.  The brunette tried to lighten her expression and relax her body more as Crone explained his plan of action.<br/><br/>"A contract?" She started, "hmm...I guess it does make the situation seem a little less dire sounding...more voluntary.." she pondered.  It did make it sound like they had both chosen to take this path together.  She looked back to her book as Crone continued his speech, trying to memorize some of the ingredients.  She quickly paused her reading though, after hearing his voice suddenly drop an octave.  His presence loomed over her from behind and his words sounded more melodious and smooth.  She had always read that demons were persuasive beings that tempted humans into contracts, but it was a whole other feeling being present in the scenario.  His arms snaked around her body and she could feel his torso pressed against her back.  She had long since stood up straight as she watched his fingers entertwine together around her body.  She understood the weight that was carried with this solid embrace, but Crone's deeper tone of voice caused her to feel slightly embarrassed.  Her cheeks started turning a little pink as they stood there.<br/><br/>Before Hana could speak up, a sudden pool of charcoal black smoke enveloped them.  Everything felt quick and blurry while the smoke cleared away.  Her head felt light again and Crone felt like he weighed fifty pounds heavier.  The added weight caused Hana to stumble onto the floor as the smoke pooled down to the floor and disappeared.<br/><br/>Hana was left wide eyed as she looked up at the silver blue wolf towering over her.  The wold jumped off of her but Hana's body quickly sat up and tried to back away from the animal as quickly as possible.  "W-Wait! WHAT?!" She yelled, her hands were shaking  as she spoke.  She was about to yell at the wolf but it was quickly enveloped in smoke again and turned back into Crone.<br/><br/>"I-I did that to you?.. JUST FROM HUGGING?!" She exclaimed.  Her hair was messy and she looked a little frazzled, unlike Crone who looked rather desperate and excited.<br/>As he patted the floor next to them, Hana hesitantly made her way over to sit beside him.<br/>"Wait hold on! We can't go now! We need to figure out what just happened!" She pointed out.  She still wanted to know what the boundaries of the curse were.  Was physical contact all it took to give him pieces of her aura?