Absent minded (Open)

Shadou was bumped into by a woman, dropping the Lachrima he was holding and watched it shatter all over the ground. "Hmm" he said slightly dissapointed but mostly indifferent about it. "You break it you buy it, I believe that's how the saying goes correct?" Shadou said giving some money to the merchant whose Lachrima he had just dropped. He turned and looked down at a woman with horns on her head and a cloak with a hood. He thought she might have been sent by Tarturus, with such a conspicuous look. He suddenly grew a cold expression on his face and looked at her with his rising magic power making his eyes glow. "Did you come to take me back?!"

Shadou turned red in the face when he realized she was just a nice girl and nothing so sinister as a Tartarus member. He rubbed the back of his head and tried to smile. "That's embarassing, Sorry its just with the hood and the horns...sorry, I thought you were someone else." Shadou said trying to play it cool. He helped her the rest of the way up. "No I do not believe we have met before. I am Shadou Akkuhei, pleasure to meet your acquaintance albeit in abnormal way hehe."

"It's quite alright, if it couldn't survive coming contact with the ground then it wasn't going to be useful in my experiment." He said thinking it over. "I feel I must apologize for perhaps frightening you, tell me do you like coffee?"

"A curative potion for anti magic particles." He said not sure if she would understand what he was talking about as many mages didn't bother with potions. "I have the chemistry down, but I need something to conduct an enormous amount of magic flow through my apparatus, and use a Lachrima as conduit for the magic and concentrate it into the chemicals thus bringing about the aforementioned potion." He explained. "Nothing very exciting, just a simple one really. Are you sure I can't get you a coffee, I feel bad." He reiterated

Shadou smiled. "Very Good, that will ease my mind." He dusted off some of her hood that had gotten dirty when she fell and started walking alongside her to a nearing Cafe. "So tell Tida, where do you hail from?" He said wencing slightly as the world hail trailed off his tounge, he forgot they don't use such archaic speak out in the normal world.

Shadou pulled out a chair for Tida to sit in as they reached a cafe and sat himself down. "No no, I live very secluded, and far away. I am not one to often associate with people, I'm not the best at behaving in society." The waiter came over. "I will have green tea and a biscuit if you have some, and then whatever the lady wants." He said closing a menu he had picked up off the table. He sat back and crossed his legs waiting for Tida to order.

"You are really interested in such things?" Shadou said surprised. "Well I tinker at my home to pass the time, and naturally have taken up Alchemy and Potion making for income outside of that provided by the Wizard Council." He started giving a some slight insight into his life. "A guild name Tartarus wields something called Magical Barrier Particles, which are in laymans terms Anti-Magic, basically feeding on the Eterano in a mages body and the atmposphere, becoming lethal if in large enough doses. Sadly." Shadou said with a somber expression on his face. "I have more experience with this then most since I was for lack of a better word 'born' within Tartarus, so I see it as my duty, having left their influence, to save people from their dastardly deeds such as this particles. It is easier said than done though." He said now getting lost in his own explanation. "The Anti Magic spreads like a wave thoughout the body, in the same manner as Eterano, but where as Eterano gives life to magic with its waves, the Anti Magic despite its Anit moniker, matches its wave pattern causing a negative alignment and killing off Eterano. My experiments goal is to create supersymmetry, one particle has an opposite particle that will cancel it out. Imagine a wave" Shadou moved his finger up and down in a wave pattern. "It has peaks and valleys, my experiment creates a potion which will go in and create a counter wave of Eterano, matching the Anti Magics peaks with the Eterano's vallyes and vice versa, eventually it will cancel the effects, leaving the natural Eterano in the enviroment and the mage's body untouched by Anti Magic particles." He said not even looking to see if Tida was keeping up with his explanation or that his tea had arrived and was getting cold. "Now the Lachrima was needed since it is condesned and crystalized magic power, to produce the Eterano that would be present in the potion through an appartus I have constructed at my home, that will run magic through the Lachrima, and when exiting the Lachrima in the bottom will extract the Lachrima of its Eterano, and place it in the potion. But you" He said looking at Tida. "Saved me time, that Lachrima if it broke simply by falling on the ground would not have been able to stand the superheating that arises from all the Eterano flying about. So thank you." He said finally sipping his tea, and waiting to see if Tida had a response.

He started to explain why he thought she was one of them "The horns, and please don't feel subconcious about them, they compliment your beautiful face, but such for lack of a better word, deformities are common amongst their members because they are born demons who adopt human forms, but their magic is at their strongest when they are in their base or demon form, which they would need to have been to even try to take me back in..." He was stopped mid sentence when he saw what Tida had done to the spoon. He picked it up looking it over. "That's...what kind of magic is this?" He asked excitedly.

"It's a wonderful magic, truly astonishing. Where did you learn it? What are its limitations? Wha.." He stopped himself from going on a long question rant and instead smiled at her "I would hate to trouble you, but my experiment could use this ability of yours if you don't mind." He said happy she wanted to help. "Plus its always good to have company."

(OOC: Sorry for my late reply! )

"Cost is not an issue for me, my Saint checks should be put to good use. You also make a good point, you never know who is watching. Heck if I wasn't paranoid about Tartarus watching me, we may not have met hahaha." He laughed. "If making a living for you is hard, you can stay at my place as long as you wish, I don't pay rent or mortgage so why should you? hehe" He said concerned with the tone she used when saying she had to make a living but was coy about asking for compensation.

"You don't need to do anything to stay, but if you need a title or reason to be there then how does assisstant or apprentice strike you?" Shadou asked. "Handouts aren't a bad thing, I respect hard work, but a little help doesn't make you any less of a person. The weekends and such are yours to do with as you will."

"Because I know you are not a member of Tartarus now, mixed with a little lonliness. Wait till you see how big and isolated my...well our home is haha. You'll see why its boring to live there alone." Shadou said sipping on some refilled tea and eating some bread the waiter had brought. "I have no reason to not trust you, and..." He said swallowing so he didn't keep talking with his mouthful. "I can handle myself if push comes to shove far better than most mages around."