Coffee After An Appointment

[Nox]

Nox leaned forward shifting Lily to the side so she didn't bump into the table between them, but the questions fell out of Cade's mouth once he was brave enough to ask the next question. Nox sat back with a wry smile as Cade poured out the questions.

A lot had been piled on the normal seeming person. He'd been dumped into his world unceremoniously and even as Nox waited for the questions to stop Cade continued with another even after he had paused to think.

"I saw this... thing."

"What kinda thing?" Nox asked curiously.

Cade shook his head. "You wouldn't believe me."

Nox chuckled. "You'd be surprised what I'd believe. I just told you my mother was mauled by a hell-hound. Our mother. Trust me, there is nothing in this world you can tell me I won't beleive you. I'd even bet Santa Clause was real at one point in time."

Cade stared at Nox. Nox wondered if he was trying to figure him out. So he talked instead. "I grew up hunting monsters. My dad was born Atharim. His father was Atharim and his father, for as long as we could remember there has always been a Durante hunting monsters. Don't know if the legacy will continue since I'm last in the line. I've fought and killed all manner of strange creatures."

Cade continued to stare at Nox like he was out of his mind. Nox smirked. The music wasn't exactly sarcastic in nature but how could he not play that card? "I saved and killed parts of Lily's family escaping the nest of a bunch of canabalistic monsters called Rougarou. I lost my arm to some scientifically generated crossbreds -- a parasitic embodiment of both monsters they came from. Hell up until the past day or so I was a fucking monster by all Atharim accounts."