Ivy watched as the grand black werewolf before her melted away. The sight was unnerving and it made her stomach twist into a tight knot for the few seconds it lasted and then, there before her was the image of the creature, the man, she had seen before on the cliffside. A glow of red tinged his eyes and then dissipated much like the faintly glowing mist around her. He bowed deeply toward her, his eyes never leaving hers, and she returned the courtly gesture with another equally deep curtsy of her own. Then, he spoke and it rang through her being like a spell. It was the kind of voice that commanded she listen to him and all that he might say and it both frightened and thrilled her. She quirked a hint of a smile.<br/><br/>“Any respectable person who wields a blade knows that one day, spell or no spell, they may have their weapon turned against them,” she said and she absently reached to run a finger over the ornate design on the hilt of her dagger. “As for the silver it’s composed of?” she paused and watched as the wolf pack formed a line between she and the peculiar and handsome man before her. “My second father gave it to me with the words that, one day, I may have use of it and nothing more,” she said and she found her eyes lingering over his well-formed and muscled physique. She chewed her bottom lip absently as she noted, with a flare of heat in her stomach, that he wore no clothing and she did not bother to hide her stare. She too wore little more than a see-through slip. They might as well have been two very undressed beings in the woods, as they were.<br/>Then he questioned her and her eyes rose to meet his.<br/><br/>“I have an idea but I do not wish to be presumptuous,” she sated and dared a half step forward, toward him. “You have an air about you I’ve never felt before, one beyond words,” she said thoughtfully. “You are no mindless werewolf, at least not one of those that I have so frequently encountered in these woods,” she took another half step forward. “I wonder, are you the being of myth? Are you a planeswalker?” she posed though the question was more of a statement and she met his eyes with an intent look almost daring, it seemed, for him to tell her she was wrong.<br/>