I notice not that he exhales the breath that he was holding or perhaps the tension he held in the moment where he waited for my answer. It was simply an obvious thing to me, just something unsaid, something that did not really cross my mind. Official things through words were strange, like mates, did we not almost act as such anyway? My mind had not thought of it or considered it enough, things simply were at times. Regardless, now he comes to me to touch muzzle to muzzle, and I am initially a bit startled by this with a slight pull back of my muzzle of black and crimson. I am...jumpy at times, by simply the movement he made, being told to move by the instinct in my mind so strong. After my initial reaction, which lasted perhaps a second...a split second? Like that of a tiny pebble? I suddenly leaned in with enthusiasm to his kiss and to return it with my own upon his muzzle.

I stare into his eyes with my bright yellows, avoiding the beckoning call of Obsidian and Ruby, though Ruby knows that when I speak of ritual, that I speak of blood, and her whispers slowly grow louder. Yes, ritual, I think, as Solaris questions his own people's customs. I do wonder what it is the Angels do. Blood. I wonder if they used to bathe in the blood of demons. My parents always spoke ill of Angels, spoke of them as if they are vile being and yet...Solaris is the only who can make me feel a little less...numb in this world. Blood. With each whisper of blood that Ruby gives, I find that my ears slightly press back more and more, my yellow eyes drifting a bit as Solaris speaks. Her voice grows loud and annoying. She knows there is blood to be had and Ruby does not care what Solaris has to say...but...I...do. I jerk my eyes back to him, ears perking completely as I force a smile that had faded with Ruby's constant badgering. Yet, Solaris asks to combine the two, starting with what we must do...as Demons. Blood.

"Blood..." I say in an almost inaudible whisper, my yellow eyes growing large with black pupils. "Blood!" I say louder, my head suddenly snapping down to my left leg. My own jaws part and my teeth rip at the top portion of my left leg. I hear Ruby howling me on in my head, my head shaking savagely on my own flesh until I feel an intense pain that I rather dislike, but Ruby...Ruby loves it, and she tells me this until I taste the blood upon my tongue and my own fur is spit out of my mouth. After a moment I feel...odd, my head slowly raising to Solaris, presenting my bleeding wound to Solaris as I licked my own lips.

"You...you have to take it, the blood...blood...you...you have to, and then...and then..." I say, my mind ticking as I attempt to remember all the details but...I simply cannot, other than that he is supposed to accept my blood and he was supposed to offer his blood in return. What was after that? There were...words that I cannot really remember, and my face is wrinkled for a moment.

"Yes you...take and then you give, yes you give blood, and then...we say...words, in the ancient tongue but....but I do not know them," I say, a bit defeated in my failure in knowing what we Demons did. I think I got...half of it right though, offering my bloodied leg to him once more with a sudden hope in my eyes that he will accept, and my tail shows my excitement in these moments, sharing what is Demon and what is Angel.

"What is it the Angels do?" I ask as I wait for him to accept my offer, and as well give his blood to me in a similar manner, before we do as Angels do.