I'll take the compliment, thank you, but don't worry; I may look like a delicate flower in this form, but it's all an illusion.
[He'd be smirking if he were human.
It dawns on him as he ponders over how to do this discretely - that is, shapeshift back and hide his horns quickly using blood magic - that Drew will probably smell the burnt blood even if the ritual somehow goes unseen.
Well, he decides, that's just a risk he is going to have to take. Explaining away such blatantly hellish features wasn't bound to go well when Drew clearly already suspected something, and for good reason.]
How about I meet you there?
[His voice distorts even further as he says that because he has shapeshifted mid-sentence; the bat is back, and he crawls probably uncomfortably up Drew's skin to get to "higher ground" for an easy take-off. Clearly, Matthew is not the most conscientious shapeshifter around.]
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[He'd be smirking if he were human.
It dawns on him as he ponders over how to do this discretely - that is, shapeshift back and hide his horns quickly using blood magic - that Drew will probably smell the burnt blood even if the ritual somehow goes unseen.
Well, he decides, that's just a risk he is going to have to take. Explaining away such blatantly hellish features wasn't bound to go well when Drew clearly already suspected something, and for good reason.]
How about I meet you there?
[His voice distorts even further as he says that because he has shapeshifted mid-sentence; the bat is back, and he crawls probably uncomfortably up Drew's skin to get to "higher ground" for an easy take-off. Clearly, Matthew is not the most conscientious shapeshifter around.]