[Just noticing the receding portal for the first time, his body leaned to the side in order to peer more easily around the brooding figure of Axel.
Axel's sudden appearance was completely forgotten, and he was only halfway aware of the question posed to him. It was just like something out of a video game... living darkness. Ebbing away from them into nothingness...
His mind latched onto that, wondering what it must be like to be able to do magic like that... And even moreso, what he could do with it.]