Xel chuckles helplessly and rubs the back of his neck, sweatdropping from the strong feeling that the question does not bode well, but he answers anyway. "As befits my in-between state, Gaav-dono: faster than human, slower than mazoku. A body fed by blood wants to really work, after all; it's not content to just be a puppet of flesh. Bone, though, regenerates so slowly that I have no intention of sacrificing any." He holds a finger and thumb about an inch apart. "About this much in two years, I think."
Xel nose and cheekbone-bumps the enormous fingers in an answering feeling, smiling. "Iyaa, no, I went off on a tangent." Frowning slightly, "A closely related one, though."
He spreads his hands. "Gaav-dono, as far as I can make out, it's because I wanted to use guerrilla tactics instead of suicidally taking on a Lord head-on with only one human for backup, and that human one who belongs to Phibrizzo-dono at least as much as to Zelas-sama anyway. If there's more to it than that, I haven't been told."
"Saaaa..." He taps his lips with a knuckle, thoughtful. "The literal, although in the last few weeks there's also been a steady stream of stifled, spitting embers on the astral plane."
Zelusagi was pretty cute, but Amelia in her Starfish of Justice Suit with no hands to point at people with was funnier. :D (Snort) That sounds like a name from Gormenghast or something. OTOH, you never know what new parents will go for; a pair of friends of mine just named their poor kid Cedric. Which I like as a name, but I still would not want to be this boy in middle school. n,n;;; Ah, yay (re him having showed up)! In-game!Xel has confidence in him, but meta!Xel frets. n,n;