The annoyed what do you want? reminded her of Seifer, too, though Seifer at this boy's age would never have said something like that to her. Still, Edea didn't let it faze her. She shook her head slightly, circling around the nearby bench to sit down facing him, just within conversation distance but no closer. No reason to make him nervous by getting any closer — though she had the feeling, looking at him, that he wasn't easily made nervous, even by strangers.
"You looked a little lost," she commented, still with that faint kind smile on her lips. There was no judgment in her voice, just a simple statement of fact. It worried her a little, that perhaps he was here by himself with no one to watch after him — but she kept that to herself. Likely he'd say he didn't need anyone to take care of him if she voiced her thoughts aloud.
"Have you just arrived here, too?"
There was something... off about him, in a way that took her a moment to pin down. One of the few remnants Edea had left of her Sorceress Power, aside from her ice magic, was the ability to sense magical power in others — both para-magic, and the true magic more typical of a Sorceress's abilities. What she was feeling from him felt more like the latter — an innate power, not something distilled or 'drawn' from the energy of the ambient environment — and that made her curious. In her world, only women were capable of using that sort of magic.
\o/ he's free to pick up that she's not really your standard ordinary human, too, if you want
"You looked a little lost," she commented, still with that faint kind smile on her lips. There was no judgment in her voice, just a simple statement of fact. It worried her a little, that perhaps he was here by himself with no one to watch after him — but she kept that to herself. Likely he'd say he didn't need anyone to take care of him if she voiced her thoughts aloud.
"Have you just arrived here, too?"
There was something... off about him, in a way that took her a moment to pin down. One of the few remnants Edea had left of her Sorceress Power, aside from her ice magic, was the ability to sense magical power in others — both para-magic, and the true magic more typical of a Sorceress's abilities. What she was feeling from him felt more like the latter — an innate power, not something distilled or 'drawn' from the energy of the ambient environment — and that made her curious. In her world, only women were capable of using that sort of magic.