As Always, Lewin Is Observant. And He Easily Picks Up On Dennis' Discomfort Though He Doesn't Realize

As always, Lewin is observant. And he easily picks up on Dennis' discomfort though he doesn't realize the cause until the kid quietly admits what he was chanting and Lightning grins. He's embarrased!

Lewin continues without giving Dennis a chance to recover from the sappiness. "Do you remember what you sang? Is it something Rin also knows? Or was the lyrics anything that has significance between you two?"

"Oh! Uh-- Yeah. That. Um--" Suddenly everything in the room but Lewin is very interesting to Dennis and he looks at every single thing that he can just to avoid meeting the Arc Knight's intense gaze. This was something they needed to discuss, but it was also something Dennis felt kind of embarrassed about because...

"I just.. I was really tired and kinda delirious when I called him, so I didn't really chant anything. I just sang some lyrics from a song that makes me think of him a lil, and then he was there."

Lewin makes a face. He doesn't like not knowing and being told he's wrong. "Why later?" he complains, crossing his small arms. "How can words hurt?" he insists.

"You never 'got it' in the first place. You gave a wrong answer." And surely that doesn't mean Mitch doesn't either(he's the best after all). "You'll figure it out. Not now, but def later, weirdo. You've got other things that need answers anyway, yeah?"

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"You disappeared on me, that's what!!" Shiro barks before offering Lewin a hand up. "Now where the hell have you been!?"

Lightning takes the hand, looking oh so confused as he stands. "I was asleep under a bush but I don't know how I got there," he says, wincing as he rubs a sore spot. "I haven't seen you since the whole Jaden thing," he whines, feeling like he's getting blaimed for something.

Lewin doesn't, in general, show a lot of emotions outside of frustration and anger. But his eyes are fixed on the phone and when the number shows, his eyes widen a little. He's amazed.

"But how does it know that?" he asks, leaning further into Mitch's personal space to look over the device. "Is there a seal on it? Is it possessed by a demon?? Is it a spider demon?!"

"Oh I'm about to blow that curious little head of your's -" a thumb hovered over the screen as he started to type, then, with both hands still on the phone(he's half expecting Lewin to snatch it from him), showed the screen. "See, looks like there's prolly about 125 million people according to the web." A pause.

"...World wide web, that is." Nerds, suddenly does this feels more annoying - like working at the store counter and having an old guy there.

Lewin nods about the farm. It was generally low level because mid level started to get difficult to control and it wasn't the smartest to raise demons like that inside the barrier.

At the mention of Rin's summon, Lightning perks up. Oh he had question about that but hadn't gotten a chance to ask before! "Did you chant anything?" he asks excitedly, temporarily setting the initial questioning aside.

This is going great! Dennis is getting a good grade in personal research, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve!

"So it's-- the farms, I mean-- they're mostly for low level kinda stuff." Which makes sense, especially now when he thinks about it more in hindsight. Familiars could be loaned out to people, but they would always answer to one tamer and one tamer only. And, as Lewin had put it in their previous conversation, they didn't double up on tamers either. It was a rare thing, which--

Dennis dismisses the thought with a shake of his head. He doesn't want to go there again.

"I'm.. not sure, actually." The teen admits slowly, rubbing his fingers together while he thinks for a moment. "I mean, I think I have a pretty good idea of what the rats want these days. Rongros hates being bored and likes to fight, Vorkith is always pretty hungry but otherwise chill, and Kulmeth is generally the most relaxed one of them all so he's just like, super easygoing. But I'm not really sure how I managed to summon Rin either, other than I used my blood to make my sigil and every powerful symbol I could think of within it because I wanted something strong to help get me out of trouble."

Lewin wakes up in an odd place - underneath a bush in one of the parks, near some heating. While he can't remember getting here, he's warm and cozy, huddled in his poncho and scarf. Lightning stretches and yawns before rolling out from under the bush, startling a couple of early students.

He sits and starts picking out some leaves from his hair. He can't remember feeling this well rested in a while! Maybe he should start sleeping outside more. He can probably set up a camp in the Forest District...

Lightning jumps to his feet with a grin, ruffling the last few sticks and bugs out of his poncho before heading back towards his office.

While he isn't bothered by his apparent bout of sleep walking, he also most likely won't be bothered when he realizes he has lost a few days.

// FYI: Magic anon threads will be continued