Raphael sighed at Emily's answer.<span style="font-style: italic">~Is she really asking who should be her best friend's familiar? Well at least she got the basics right...~</span>he thought, amazed that she didn't pick up on what he was implying. However, what he said out loud was, "There's a bit more to it than that. I am the only reason Kratos can exist on the material plane of Earth. If I die, he goes back to Hell. Permanently. So in a sense, I'm unable to age or die from illnesses. I guess you could say I'm trapped in my own time space continuum." He paused to see if Emily was listening to everything he said. "But you get lots of cool powers being a familiar, so I don't mind living forever."<br/><br/>He was having a hard time not begging her to become Rylie's familiar, but he knew it was Rylie's decision to make, not his.<br/>___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>Kratos laughed. The first goodhearted laugh he had had in years in fact. "Emily, huh? I can't help but feel Raphael would thank you for that!" then he started to explain what Raphael had said to Emily, but added "There's also a mind link that enables you to give them commands they can't refuse, but something tells me you aren't the type to do that to a friend." He smiled as a thought occurred to him. "oh, and while I'm talking about it, only a familiar can marry another familiar, in case you were wondering."