Rose had not expected to find that her new neighbor was also on the balcony as she walked out and set her food on the railing, followed by a glass that she reserved in her hands for a moment as she looked over the examine the other individual who now stood outside on his own balcony. She recognized him from the coffee shop earlier. His appearance was rather recognizable, after all, what with the snow-white hair, iridescent eyes, and attractive features. Of course, that was the extent to which she recognized him, so her face showed no real recognition. As he had expected, she did not recognize him as the boy she had saved on the streets all of those years ago. After all, he had been a child, and nearly two decades had passed since then.<br/><br/>He greeted her with a charming smile that she was certain would make him rather popular with the ladies, perhaps even melting the hearts of many. She had never been prone to swooning, nor was she easy to charm. Still, she was human… or half-human, anyways, so it wasn’t as if she was immune, and if nothing else, she was honest enough to admit when she found someone to be attractive or charming, even if that was often the extent of her honesty.<br/><br/>She returned his smile in kind, with a light and charming smile of her own. “Hello there,” she replied with a light and airy voice, “Ah, yes, well, I did move in a little early, didn’t I? Surprise,” she added the latter with a hint of a chuckle and a slight flare of her arms in the air. “Had I known I had such an attractive neighbor, I might have moved in even sooner,” she added almost casually, as though this were a completely normal thing to say, although the mischievous glint in her eye and playful smile probably took away from the casual way in which the words were spoken. Either way, it would be quite obvious that the fact that he was a complete stranger had no bearing on her at all. In fact, it was often preferable to her.<br/><br/>“You are right, it does have quite the view,” she added with a somewhat ambiguous tone, her emerald eyes lingering on him for a moment longer than was strictly necessary before shifting to look out over the city, “I suppose we are both lucky.” With that she fell silent briefly as she eats the food she had prepared and watched as the clouds rolled in, changing the sunny blue sky to a grey sky shrouded in clouds and obscured by the rain that began to fall soon after.<br/><br/>The weather was neither here nor there as far as she was concerned. It was nice to see the sun every now and then, but rain could be nice, too. In the grand scheme of things, it was really of no significance. It appeared, though, that her neighbor was not of the same opinion, as this change in weather brought a grin to his face. It was a rather unusual response, as most people seemed to have more gloomy responses to the rain, but you wouldn’t hear her complaining.<br/><br/>A few moments later, he spoke up again, asking what had made her move here of all places. That was a good question, she guessed, and one that did not really have a good answer. “Who knows?” she replied nonchalantly. She thought on it for a moment but came up with nothing of any significance. “I was bored and wanted something different, and someone I knew told me about this place, so here I am,” she answered honestly, despite realizing the red flags she was likely throwing up already with her various comments. Whether this was done consciously or unconsciously, however, was anyone’s guess.<br/><br/>“What about you? What made you move here? Or is there where you grew up?” she asked, partially because it was the polite thing to do and it wouldn’t hurt her to learn a little bit about the guy next door, and partially because she was at least a little curious.