<span style="font-weight: bold">"What brings you here this afternoon?"</span><br/><br/>"Kratos went with Rylie to work after he showed her... something," Raphael said, deciding that Emily didn't need to know<span style="font-style: italic">everything</span>that had happened while time was stopped. "So I figured I would just hang out with someone who doesn't get freaked out by my ears and tail. I hope that's ok..."<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Do you want any food?"</span><br/><br/>"Ummm... depends on what kind of food you mean. those mean people across the street tried to feed me chocolate! Do you know what that stuff does to cats?" Raphael answered her.<br/>___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>"You seem to forget that in suspended animation, you don't age. I am a mere twenty-five years of age, and you... well, let's just say that when you turn twenty-two, you will understand what those "powers" you were wondering about can do. Unless you are trained, then you will be a target of the military almost immediately from the destruction you cause by simply waving hi to someone. there's just a small detail that I am afraid may shock you. Raphael wasn't always a Nekojin. only when he agreed to be my familiar did that change take place. You need a familiar, and that needs to be someone who is willing to become one, not just anyone off the street. It grants you both incredible powers, but if you can't find one before the end of your twenty-first year... it won't end well. so how much longer before you turn twenty-two then? I know this is a lot to take in, but you need to trust me."