"Oh do I?" She was small, she was insignificant and she had no idea did she? Her look however said otherwise, her look said different, that she was important in some way, important in her mind. He liked that, because she thought it to be true, but the future would forget her, save for if she was 'important' in her organization. Then she might be remembered, but she would still be dead. That was the important thing, he may not be remembered in books and in tall tales of song, but he would not be dead. He could live on, and honestly, reading about your deeds or having people sing about you while they thought you were dead was quite...disconcerting.
Her stare wasn't so bad, he sort of liked her particular attention to him. Though he found it oddly discomforting for the mere fact that she seemed like a predator watching him, and he found that slightly scary. She was watching him, like he were a sheep. He himself was a predator just as she was, and yet she seemed to have the upper hand...almost.
"It's been with me for more years that you've seen." He reached up and took his fedora off, scuffing off a bit of dirt and dust with his sleeve before he placed it back on his head. The fedora, the leather jacket, the eyes, they were his signature. Well, so was his magical style, but really, it was the outfit that gave him the most he believed. People knew him by his magical style, at least on his planet. They'd probably have forgotten about him for now, he had disappeared many years ago. No matter though, he didn't want them to remember him, more so his Goddess. Nexus was very happy to be forgotten by them. This was his new world, his new life, his new world, and he was comfortable with it really.
Nexus gave a slight smile as he slowly leaned back, putting one hand on the ground and relaxing, watching her carefully. Here it was then, she'd finally tell him everything he wanted to know, everything about her. It would give him the proper insight into her life, proper insight into her capacity and her ability. He had wanted to know just what the hell she was, just what he should be careful of. Nexus desired to know his opponent, their capacity for harm against him and how they might be able to do such. Was she trained in some martial art, some weapon, he already knew she had magic capacity, no doubt she was more improved than she let on to believe, but the question was...what else could she do? What else should he look out for? While he couldn't spot any weapons on her, she could be like him and have a way to create a weapon, a great flaming sword perhaps, or a javelin of intense heat and energy.
The possibilities were endless at this point.
His eyes looked away from her, to his free hand which did not support him. He created a small red thread with a heavy coil at the end to weight it down...then he began to twitch his finger to bounce it up and down. He was paying attention to her yes, but he wanted to seem like he was bored already by the prospect of her story. It was an act, to show that he had some strength, some power that she didn't know. He didn't know what the Lumenari was, but he knew what a High Priestess was, and it spelt some trouble. She was in one of those religions. Like his own actually, and it sparked his interest in a way which was surprising. He missed the life to a degree, but he hated it because of the restrictions, because of the hypocrisy and the decadence that came with it. He hated how he was a monster, created for a sole purpose...he hated...
He hated how he was never asked.
No one asked him what he wanted, he had just been forced into it, using animal instinct and basic wants and desires to do what he was told.
Nexus listened to the little story, his eye flashing up to look at her as she did the knife movement, recreating how she butchered a helpless man. That he always found sad, they never gave the sacrifices a chance, never let them fight and sacrifice the priest. They were so willing to take the lives of others, to take the gold of others, but never willing to give their own, never willing to go under the knife.
It sickened him.
"I suppose it would." He said as his eye flickered back to looking at the little thread that sprouted from the end of his fingertip. Was he enjoying himself with this? Perhaps just a tiny bit yes. How could he not? This was all a bit of a game really, to see who was stronger of mind. She might win, he was easy to anger, while she seemed able to hold herself in check. She however did not understand the anger, the rage, the power that could coarse through him and fill him, giving him the strength to overcome. A blinding rage was actually helpful sometimes, and if he needed to ignore pain and scathing comments, it could help him.
Slowly, Nexus stood up, dismissing the string of power from his finger with a small flick of it toward the fire. The string shot into the fire and caused it to burn higher, trying to reach at her face which was perhaps a tad too close. He turned away from her, and his shoulders began to shake as he laughed. It was a deep laugh, a very mocking sort of laugh as he kept his back to her. She was just a conceited little creature wasn't she? It was adorable. He bent slightly, his hands on his thighs as he laughed more. Slowly though, the laughter was silenced and he turned around to face her.
"If I wanted to fuck you, I would. I would have pushed your face into the dirt and sodomized you when we first met. I don't need poisons or ropes to 'have my way with you' Oin." Nexus told her as he focused his eye on her, a rather terrible smirk playing on his face. It was an insult, to think he needed such an underhanded tactic such as poison to have sex with her. Threads perhaps, but choking her with them? It wasn't often his style. If the person really deserved it, he would choke them with his own two hands...but sometimes he would hang them with rope or thread. She however, didn't seem to be intimidated by the threat, she seemed almost...intrigued. Oh the things he wanted to do, the things he could do, raping her was one of the 'best' things he could do to her. It was true too, and it was one of the least debauched things that he could make her live out on these plains. There were many other pleasures, or pains in her case no doubt, that he could let her experience.
Ironically, a lot of things involved heat and fire.
"But you act like you're unafraid of the prospect, that the idea of anything happening to you is laughable. I find it...interesting." Slowly Nexus raised a finger upward and dragged his finger through the air. A strange small piece of white thread was trailing behind it. He did this a few more times until he created a wispy sort of N out of the threads, which were pulled by the wind. "Funny thing about fire, it's just a reaction, it creates a lot of things, lots of people like the heat, heat's good...but they don't always realize the light aspect. That's the good part really. Light is great, some may say the darkness is better, but oh no...the light has quite a lot of uses. This is a neat little trick I picked up back when I was young, you'll appreciate this one for sure. " His eyes rolled back into his skull as he continue to trace the N with his finger, moving it back and forth slowly. The light weight of the white thread was enough to keep it afloat, which he continued to do over and over again.
"And it's...fun." He snapped his finger, which caused the thread floating in front of him to explode with bright light white, the fire in front of Oin doing the exact same thing, suddenly bursting to a full bright white like a flash of lightning, before it completely disappeared, leaving nothing but a pit of ash and smoke, the embers and coals having gone out in the sudden burst, no longer having any fuel to burn.
Nexus on the other hand, was already on the move. He was going to grab her, force her to the ground, and show her that he didn't need to wrap a rope around her neck. oh no, he could use his fingers. He just had to pull his eye to look forward once more, he had made the flash perhaps a tad bright, he wasn't sure how protected she might be to it, and even him with his special eye could have ended up blinded. That would have been horrible, no amount of talking would have saved him there.
His only question was whether or not he should paralyse her and have his way with her first, or after.