<hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/8sMViis.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Masque (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=286197.msg14083251#msg14083251)<br/><strong>Aura:</strong>Gray, 3/3<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>Morning, Day One.<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Clearing<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Akumo, Open<strong>Mention:</strong><br/><hr/><br/>He'd no sooner finished his 'first' kill, when another student bumped into him. He kept his balance as the two made impact, adjusting himself and going with the flow; end result being little more than annoyance that could quickly be forgotten. "We haven't seen each others eyes... I'll work with you, but don't think we're partners yet." His voice is short, clipped, to the point; with a dangerous edge to it, often likened to a dagger held to someone's throat.<br/><br/>Off, only a little bit aways from them, he could hear the sounds of battle. With his right hand, dagger still held in it, he gesticulated in the opposite direction of where someone, or someones, had just killed something big. "We need to cut our own trail. Keep up." A second of a lull in the words, as the cat faunus began moving away from where all the sounds had been coming from. "Or find your own way. We all have to, after all." That last sentence seemed to be more meant for himself, to himself, but was still audible.<br/><br/>And then he was off, racing into the wilderness; with or without another's aid. On the one hand, the Headmaster's words had stuck in his head; the words of the huntsmen he had encountered, had scouted him out, did, too. He'd need to partner up. But needing and wanting were two different things, and he was so used to just going it alone at this point. Outwards, he might be calm, but inside, there was a very real conflict.  After all, one of the ideas that had appealed to him is that he might have something close to a family to be among again, instead of just being a lone drifter... but when he's in the conflict, when he's in a dangerous place like this, it's like a switch gets flipped in his head, and he dons a different mask.