*doesn't quite get the significance of the eye color change -- though he does pause to wonder about that. But it's still Abel, and... well, to be honest, he might not have really noticed, if Abel hadn't done anything to draw attention to his eyes anyway.*

But I don't want to have anything to do with-- with--

*monsters and those teeth and things ripping each other apart and devouring--*

*....oh god, why was it that something he was trying so hard to put out of mind insisted that it was somehow a good idea?*

*swallows, hugging Noireau tighter* ....with monsters. I don't want to be like them.... 'M not a monster....