HIS head tilted as he started at the strange beasts in front of him, Tenniase had only ever interacted with the Master and his servants. She was an elegant thing, slender and standing boldly in front of her comrades, blocking Master’s path.

“What do you want from us?” she shouted up at the muscular creature, an eroin, Master wasn't one to play games with.

“There is no purpose in answering your questions.” he spoke calmly but the disgruntled rumble that followed made Tenniase’s blood run cold. The feathers along his spine stood on end as he took a few steps back. Master looked with a scrunched face to one of his servants, short little creatures from another place Tenniase couldn't recall the name of. “Take that one,” he waved an arm at the girl. “To his quarters, he’ll deal with her.”

At his mention Tenniase jumped to his feet from where he crept on all fours. Master glanced and nodded at him ushering him away as a servant drug the screaming girl out of her cage. “Let me go!” she screeched.

Tenniase shook his head, that girl would need to learn some manners if she was to keep her life. He slowly rounded the corner and opened the first door to his chambers. Ropes and rings of metal hung from his ceiling, he may not have wings but nothing would keep Tenniase from flying. He snatched a roped and pulled it enough that a sack fell from the other end and hoisted him up.

“Let me go.” her voice was more rumbly this time as she was thrown through his open door which was shut immediately as she hit the floor. “Hey you bastard get back here!” after a second of no response and punching the door she kicked it and scanned the large room.

Her eyes found Tenniase’s and he started blankly back at her, he dropped to his hands and crept along the wide metal bar. His steps landing carefully along it's edge till he found another rope to slide down.

“Who are you,” she tilted her head, her long wings flashing out at her sides. Tenniase already knew this trick, it didn't scare him she was still the same size. “W-what are you?” he blinked and landed gracefully on his toes.

She took a step to the door behind her, a futile thing as it was locked. “Do you understand me?”

he didn't bother to speak, he simply nodded and took a few steps toward her, his heart racing. Her question echoed in his mind, *what are you?*

“are you a relife?” her voice shook now as he steadily stepped closer.

a relife, that's what Master said he was when he first opened his eyes ten years ago. He nodded again and swept his foot over a rope, it lifted him back to the ceiling, she was too close to the door. He crept along the bar after catching it's rim. Her eyes stayed locked on him.

“Are you a- wait a minute, are you a Haries?” her shoulders relaxed and her wings slightly folded back to her spine.

He dropped to the ground, landing on all fours but pulling his body back on to his feet. “A Haries?” he finally spoke, mimicking her words as they intrigued him.

She flinched and eyed the door. “Y-yeah, they're wingless Anaries.” though she backed away from him, her eyes still stayed on the door. “I-im an Anarie, you look like a Harie.”

He glanced at his arms and body, feathers lined the back of his legs and arms and coated his spine, a few feathers splayed across his chest while hers seemed to be isolated to her wings and arms, though her shirt made it hard to see any back feathers, his sharp blue eyes snapped back to another rope. It was too fun to just stay on the ground with her, the long bars lining the ceiling gave him the high ground.

“H-how do you get out of this room?” she blurted taking another step back.

He tilted his head and furrowed his brows. *does she not remember how she got in?* he chuffed at the thought and charged to the the rope, clambering up it and onto a bar. He settled himself to sit comfortably, starting down at her. “What does Master want with you?” he wasn't asking her, Master already denied her that answer. But maybe something in his mind would stir so he’d have an idea.

“Thats what i’d like to know.” she crossed her arms and started back expectantly, “wait, master?” her eyes widened. “Your a darksider, I thought relifes couldn't be.”

His heart wrenched toward her, though he shuddered at the idea of being anything different. “I am me.” he said simply, no sides necessary, they were here now, not in a war between the sides.

“I don't even know who you are.” she grossly pointed out, unfolding her wings and lifting from the ground. They were eye level and Tenniase took a few steps along the bar to get closer to her.

“I am Tenniase, And you are?”

she drifted back in graceful move. “Cresilise.”

they stared at each other for a long moment, as if willing the other to move first. Tenniase took the challenge and lept to a higher bar. He wouldn't let her win this and soon the ceiling would block her wings from reaching him.

“Why did that,” she paused. “Thing…bring me here?”

he pulled himself up another bar before settling in a position he could readily jump up from. He shrugged.

Her silver feathers glimmered in the dim light whereas his, a dark grey and blue tinted, blended in with his surroundings, though his sharp gold eyes flicked like fire in the night. Hers where a deep green, and locked on him.

“I don’t know, I've never met anyone like you. A strange creature.”