Simply turning his gaze to the girl who was speaking in a frustrated manner, Drake simply pushed some of his long bangs from his eyes and looked her over with his cold eyes. Even as she began to pace he did nothing but observe until she began to speak more calmly.<br/><br/>“Yes,” he said solemnly, looking down for a few moments before speaking again. “We are in a distortion of sorts, and it is alive and aware of what is going on. Through the use of personas, we can shield our consciousness and prevent permanent damage from being done to our psyche. As for what you do with a persona, you fight with it. A persona is an extension of your true self, the self that you are too ashamed to show to the world. They are like a raft in the ocean, a preserving device, but they will not work just by themselves. We just fight alongside our personas in order to survive.”<br/><br/>The hairs on the back of Drake’s neck stood on end as Shino summoned his persona. The healing type immediately making his darker rooted one get on edge as well, however it soon passed. Motioning toward the new persona and how it healed the others, then as Shine collapsed, Drake spoke once more to the group. “Working together as one. If your will is strong, your persona will have a strong one as well. But when you falter, so will it. It is important to remain linked, connected to your persona.”<br/><br/>As Taijo asked him about what caused Discordia, Drake immediately shook his head, causing his long dark locks to fall back over his eyes. “The exact workings of Discordia are unknown to me, but the more I have delved into it, the more I have learned. I am currently on a search for what causes it, and how to stop it from consuming the world.” Crossing his arms, Drake leaned against a light post and stared at the group, his persona’s red eyes simply shifting from each person as if it were assessing them.<br/><br/>“I have been travelling through Discordia for a few years now. I’ve only been able to do so much by myself. I’ve been traveling in search of answers, yet all I find is more chaos and death. Today I was able to save your lives, as I have saved others, but I have never encountered a group of people who were persona users like myself, in these numbers at least.” Shifting his weight to his other foot, Drake looked up at the others and simply blew some hair from his face. “This has to be fate; to have my path crossed with everyone else’s this day, here and now.<br/><br/>“So the choice is yours. Do you want to try and survive this? Or hide until it destroys you?”