Ah yes. Mine as well. Despite the underlying magical community the world is generally mostly populated by, well, regular people. People who are quite unaware of the magic and mythica in general [ He smiles sadly. ] I've been trying for many years to figure out ways to make it so people could understand, could speak and talk to us while knowing the the truth, and be scared.

[ A sigh. ] It's just a very long process. [ More so when you have little to no one backing you up. If Elise was there, was here...it'd be different he's sure of it.

He blinks and looks at her. ] Brother... [ just trailing off there. Brothers are not something he's known to have a good track record with. And it doesn't help any that his was more or less mentally and physically abusive always telling him that he was a horrible one. ] Ah! Y-yes that's, um, certainly more appropriate.