[The "demon" does not retreat... but true to its word, it does not press forward to close the distance between them, either. Behind it, a long, whip-like tail curls and sways in the shadows like an anxious snake. What did he want with her- ?]

She is-

[... He must be careful. This place, he does not know where they are, what sort of Insiders there are around them... If he claimed Shiva, would she be condemned despite how human she looks? Would it be safer not to... ? Yet if he did not ask, he might never find her, and that... it makes something in his chest ache. But to be accused of hunting her-]

I have no ill intent, I assure you-

[The pale eyes disappear when he closes them, his mind racing.]

I do not know how we have arrived in this place... she is a trusting child, I merely mean to protect her, to make sure she is safe-

[And happy. That is all he had ever wanted for her, and yet... it has not yet occurred to him... That just because Shiva had been by his side a moment ago did not mean that she would be here now in this place. This place that he did not even begin to understand.

And what, then, was a "glamor"?]