As Lydia practically fell out of the shop to ground herself, Shenyo came right behind her and scooped her up into his arms. Instead of grounding herself to the earth to draw in power, she found herself grabbing onto Shenyo's essence instead in the confusion and dizziness that held her. Darting down the street as the flames grew higher, the old, dry wood acting as perfect kindling, Shenyo didn't notice anything happening. Lydia on the other hand was drawing on something from him that would have killed normal mortals, pulling in his life essence. Or at the very least, something similar to it.<br/><br/>The energy felt very similar to what they had shared that night beneath the trees. "Are you ok?" Shenyo's voice spoke to her as he slipped into an alleyway, looking down and over her body quickly for any obvious wounds. "You almost collapsed back there. Can you walk?" He would carry her if he had to, but it was much more suspicious. Doubtless the vampires would ask for answers after finding one of their own dead. The villagers would be forced to think of anything they could to protect themselves and their family. Anything beyond the normal, though these days normal was quite different from what it was years prior.<br/><br/>Edging to the other side of the alley he poked his head out, scanning the street, before pulling back. "Give it a couple minutes and we can go." They were in the shadows, so unless someone looked directly at them they wouldn't be noticed. A flurry of movement was happening as people ran past to either help, stare, or get answers. They would need to wait until the majority of people were at the store and not moving towards it.<br/><br/>Meanwhile Shenyo didn't notice anything out of the ordinary as Lydia pulled on his core, or perhaps the core of something else. It wasn't clear, especially in her state. It was definitely partly Shenyo, and partly something else. The only question was if she was going to keep drawing from it. Would it hurt him? Would it prevent him from being able to fight if they had to? Clearly Shenyo was not human and moved far beyond one. Was this power she had experienced twice now the source of that, or was it actually unrelated?