With Donovan’s completely expended lust, Dean eased back to himself, the balanced energy that had temporarily made him a moral man easing free. The sensation of dark settling back where it belonged, shadows climbing the interior of his chest and thoughts was a welcome one. It was horribly unnatural to have strange inclinations and memories bouncing around his mind.<br/><br/>Hand holding the comb freezing, Dean felt Donovan’s flickers of power use, felt his own power surge. Although the balance between the two had been restored, the tremendous surplus from earlier was not entirely gone, though it was diminished. Slipping from beneath Aza, Dean stepped over to the girl’s collar, taking possession of it. He had no clue how it worked, other than the fact that the gemstones on it somehow interacted with Aza’s mysterious power. Glancing over at the fox-woman, he considered his options. If he gave the collar back to her or put it around her neck, what would stop her from becoming a fox again? Then again, she seemed to value the collar greatly.<br/><br/>“I’m keeping this until we figure out how you work, rascally fox-woman,” Dean said, flashing her a white smile before vanishing out the door and running downstairs to Donovan. As he went, Dean’s belongings – the scant few he had – vanished into black smoke, reappearing around his body as he burned the slight excess of power that Donovan’s healing had lent him. Moving objects that had been on his person for a few weeks was a relatively simple thing for the Shadow.<br/><br/>“Take this,” Dean said, tossing the collar to Donovan and moving to the door to listen, extending his power to sense the movement outside. They were rapidly running out of time. Damn sexcapades distracting them from the inevitable hunt. But who knew they’d be doing door to door searches.<br/><br/>Turning back to Donovan, eyes as black as pitch, Dean asked softly, “Do you want me to distract or cause carnage, my knight?” In this matter, Donovan did not truly hold the leash, not with Dean so empowered by Aza’s earlier release, but it would not do to irk Donovan. Not in the long run, not until they’d figured out how to slip their chains.<br/>