He was quite delighted when he saw the message on Shadow's journal. Granted, he had been delighted to begin with. So much havoc being wrought in the building... It was so fun to watch the residents here run about as though the things they did actually mattered.
When all they really were, were lambs before the slaughter~
But the little message from his other had pleased him to no end. To have him here, like this, was as though a gift from Solaris herself. And he was grateful to have the chance to shape him and mold him and bend him to his will again. If it hadn't been for circumstance before, he would have managed, and he knows it.
Here, he has more than enough time~
The surge of power alerts him to the arrival even before the darkness in the room around him does and he finds himself smiling at the laptop before him. He closes it, easily, and then turns, letting serpentine green find the familiar figure now standing in his room. All it does is makes him smile more. He bows a little to the black and red hedgehog, still smiling away softly to himself.
"Welcome, once again, to my humble little abode, Shadow~"