The shadowy hedgehog gives a low chuckle, serpentine eyes bright as he watches the other closely. Something isn't quite right, now. He can just sort of... sense it. As though there is a tension between them. Fear, perhaps? Oh, but wouldn't that be sweet? No... perhaps it is confusion. After all, with the curse, Shadow would be wise to be wary.
Mephiles never bothers with his own advice though.
"Why not you, Shadow? Do you not deserve the chances I once offered you?" he murmurs and then smirks. "Though here I have little to offer you, really. Not nearly the things I could have given you once. Once I would have given you the world, to rule at my side. Together we would have been truly unstoppable. Now... alas..." He shrugs, softly, though his smirk never wavers.
"Thanks to those who who brought me to this place... I have nothing other than myself." he murmurs, never realizing the implications of what he's just said.
(( That's okay! XD I've just kind of been going under the assumption that Mephiles at least wound up being bitten. |Da Though he hasn't said anything at all about it to anyone. ))