seinennoha:

    _{Huh? He briefly paused in mid-step at her sudden introduction, as if he’d never heard one before. Head turned just barely to the side, he gave a brief nod of acknowledgement. He did suppose that it’d be a lot easier, and a lot less formal, if he knew the girl he was helping along a little better. Still, as his feet pattered across the ground, his attention was to the surrounding area first. There was no telling when a manikin, or worse, one of Chaos’ minions, would appear to claim their stake at his life and at weakening Cosmos.}

    _{“I’m the Onion Knight. Nice to meet you.“ The boy returned the greeting with a hint of pleasure in his tone, but otherwise maintained his serious disposition towards what was going on. ”Sanctuary’s that big column of light over there. Impossible to miss, really. Problem’s the manikins. Those guys stop at nothing.“ His warning was vague, of course, but still valid. For beings that mimicked appearance, their personalities needed just a bit of tweaking…}

         _{While the blonde was aware that different worlds had different customs and different people were aware of and used to different things, sometimes she forgot. For a moment she wondered at his confused expression, before realizing that it could have seemed odd to her, about as odd as the world that she had accidentally ended up in was. Mouth opening to allow an apology to slip out she closed it again with a click of her teeth at his nod, and simply followed along behind him. Despite looking so young, he seemed to be intently and completely aware of his surroundings with a solemnity around him that was very nearly surprising.}

         _{Onion Knight was certainly a name that she had never heard of before, but she took it in stride and nodded, allowing herself a small noise to say that she heard. Such a casual comment on his name seemed to be frivolous and silly in that moment as she imagined that he had other things to worry about, but when it spoke again it perked her interest too much for her to really ignore. Knowledge was something that she desired strongly and she couldn’t resist letting a small question slip out—}

                                             _{”What are manikins?”}