The creature stood still as a statue as Melinda let her eyes roam over its face. It didn't) seem put of by her attentions nor did it take her staring at it as an act of aggression or a challenge. When Melinda reached or to it and played het fingertips slowly over its features she found its skin as warm as a wood stove at a good burn. It wasn't uncomfortably hot but definitely was hotter then any human she'd ever touched.<br/><br/>As Melinda's knees started to give the creature reached out and wrapped an arm about her waist and pulled her to it. Doing so had its cloak open  and reveal the rest of itself to her view as it wore nothing under the cloak. Like it's face, the rest of HIS body, for it was most definitely (and impressively) male, was powerful and inhumanity shaped. His skin was dark and leathery, with a bit of roughness to its thick hide. His overly muscled frame was a touch to heavy and its arms extended down post its knobby knees while it's legs gave the impression it was built for speed, the way a predator is who kills its pretty on the run.<br/><br/>Melinda found great power in the arm that held her and pressed her bare skin against his. They were closer then she'd ever been to anything so strange and virile as she posed her question in such a faint tone. "Safe," he did when asked where they were as he looked deeply into her eyes and read her misery in them. "I am §Г￦Ω^," he replied, agian using that strange, awful language when he named himself. Hearing his name was almost painful and the sounds of it didn't really fix themselves in her memory. If she wanted him to have a name she could use she'd have to give it to him.<br/><br/>Perhaps triggered by the confusion he saw in her eyes he said, "You needed, I came." The explanation was a spartan one but from his matter of fact tone, and no further expansion on his part, seemed to suffice for him. "Now, you are safe. You always will be," he promised Melinda in a firm tone edged with a fierce protectiveness and indomitable will that echoed with finality through the chamber they were in.