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Shadow was never one for being amongst the crowd. This being said, Shadow had been more content on staying away from other people following the whole Ohm incident. He hadn't been hurt too bad, except for his pride.

At the moment Shadow was busy stalking across the City, wandering no where in particular. And doing a good job griping.

"Everyday the same thing... it's like this ship doesn't know anything different." Shadow griped. "...I'm surprised no one's gone nuts with all this."

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"Actually, no..." Shadow said, a small smile forming. "...you look rather..."

He looked around a bit, trying to find the right words.

"...cute."

Probably not the one he wants to convey, but it works, nonetheless.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

She blinked. Well. That was the last reaction she was expecting. She had certainly never been called anything like that, not in all of the time she had been living. She closed her hands a moment, and then brought a mirror out of thin air, looking at herself.

"I suppose," she said. "It was only natural that I age this body. I have lived long enough to find a way to increase the strength in my limbs and show an outward appearance of maturity. I never supposed it would enhance my looks."

She shrugged, but recognized the compliment, and buried a rising smile.

"You're looking good, as always I imagine. What have you learned from fighting the Ohm?"

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"They're mad. Insane. And probably much smarter than we thought before." Shadow said. "They caused the overload just so they could attack. It would make sense. They attacked my world just after I stopped another alien invasion."

"They're beasts of opportunity. They strike during moments of panic, when you least expect it. Though, I am still confused as to why they left when they did..."

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"Smarter and calculating is a better word for it," Alessa said. "I want to know why though. Why take the time, the effort of causing an uproar simply to destroy a world and its inhabitants by surprise? That is where he madness comes in. The reason escapes me, it is so without purpose."

She gave Shadow a piercing look. "Well, they were surprised, weren't they? Every attack they had, they were unstoppable. With worlds, I've no doubt they simply overwhelmed the strongest warriors and killed them easily. But now you have Stacy, amassing a number of the strongest fighters, smartest technicians and more, and we hurt them. They're assessing. They want to know WHY we pose a threat to them."

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"We need to find one of them. Learn what they can do. How they work. Once we do, we can understand everything." Shadow said.

"It seems both us and the Ohm are at a loss of words. Why do they attack like they do and how come we fought back? They'll want to know more about us as much as we do about them. I guess only time will tell when that will happen."

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"Nonsense," Alessa said. "They all fight differently, didn't you notice that? We know what similarity they had was that thing called the Node, and it was powerful. If anything, we should be concerned about how we're to defeat it. We LOST this fight, we can't pretend this outcome was good."

She gave him a grim smile. "It's not likely I'm going to give them time to find similarities with me. They're worse than the King: a place is one thing, but desecrating worlds for fun is akin to considering themselves gods. Once THAT happens, they can be very powerful."