"I suppose you are, indeed, right..." Kai sighed, still quiet in voice, and let his hand slide down his face, though his eyes remained almost shut, only through a narrow gap between his black lashes gazing at the world. His breath was leaving small clouds of smoke in the suddenly dropping temperature of the kitchen, and even the champagne bottle was suddenly covered by mist on the surface of the glass. All of a sudden, the air grew warmer, till it was searing hot, almost like the depths of hell itself. Kai found his breath shaking as he drew the hot air into his lungs, but his gaze slowly widened, regaining its usual cold, yet charming quality. He looked back up at Erlind as his old friend slid a few strands of his obsidian hair behind his ear, and a small smile, dark and menacing in its nature, though, appeared on his lips.<br/>"That's right. For a mere human to have this much power over me... No, that's just ridiculous, unthinkable." he spoke, straightening his back once more, and refilling their glasses with sparkling wine.<br/><br/>"I'm going to find her, and drag her filthy soul to hell before I eat all the power to the last ember that she's hiding in it." This time, those were words of confidence and determination. He raised his glass, prompting Asmodei to the toast as well with a look of his dark red eyes. "To wealth, fortune, demise of humankind, suffering of angels and death of mad witches." he spoke in jest, taking a sip from his glass a moment after.<br/><br/>"One can meet curious people in this country." he concluded after a while. "Twelve thousands of years I was not yet aware of that, but I met<span style="font-style: italic">her</span>, the woman that could deprive even a demon of sanity." Chuckling lightly, he set the glass back onto the table. "She was a witch, though, and that was more than unwelcome in the moronic society that has changed little since those times. Christians, they call themselves, yet they abide naught by the teachings of their so-called Lord and Savior. At the beginning, she may have been an innocent woman, but whether it power, or my own presence that corrupted her, I don't know. She was clever enough to strike a deal with me that would grant her immortality in ever recurring lives, and I wasn't clever enough to avoid being fooled by her. She attempted to get rid of me then. As if she really thought she can kill something that isn't even of her world!"<br/><br/>He shook his head, glancing onto the floor. "And after a few decades, when I attempted to make her pay a visit to Hell's deepest pits, she vanished once more, splitting her soul and leaving one of its shards in my own conscience for as long as she walks the earth. That would, naturally, give you the answer to your first question... What I have been doing all this time. I was looking for her."<br/><br/>His gaze grew dark and foreboding once more. "But lately, I've been feeling her close. She's in Europe, either here, in Germany, or in one of the neighboring countries. When the war comes, and I will be able to appear in my true form again, I'm sure it won't even take me a month to track her down and find her. In the first great war, she escaped from me over the ocean, but now she's back." he smiled wryly.<br/>"Besides, I have a better company that will be visiting us this evening. I hope you won't try to seduce this one... She's in my personal ownership, and I gave her a ring to prove that, too. Frau Annika Rohr shall pay us a visit... You should get yourself a little toy like that, they alleviate fatigue and won't even notice you feeding on them if you seduce them right. Besides, she's sitting on a mountain of gold."<br/><br/>She was truly a good catch for one like him. A quiet personality paired with a beautiful appearance... And a wealthy, prestigious father in the upper echelons of political power, too.<br/><br/>"I may be marrying her this winter." he remarked casually.