Re: Axel: Rae & Fen
If one were to ask why Fen had picked this as a place to ignore, his answer would have been simple. It was a sizable gathering of people, seemingly of some importance, and it would probably be easy for him to slip into the back unobserved. Considering he intended to remain here and the information he'd recently come across about the place itself, he reasoned that to not do so would have been a mistake. Now, if one were to ask him why he'd chosen to remain in a place that was loud and reeked of scents he did not find pleasant? Well, then all Fen would have had was a mild grunt.
Fen wasn't ignorant of how he was received by the general world however and, when combined with the fact that he'd made his way through enough small town Americana to have seen this once before, and he at least knew how to look the part. He didn't skulk and stalk like he normally might, but instead kept his posture loose and limber. He even managed to feign a smile that looked less predatory than his usual. He even looked appropriate, despite not caring much for such things as usual, and he made himself look like an amused onlooker.
He'd have been content with just that too if not for sudden wafting of an already familiar scent under his nose. It wasn't the easiest thing to pick out among the reek of innocence and wholesome, but it was there just the same. It was something distant, something that drew the hairs on the back of his neck to attention. It was brief, like a bitter wind blowing through a door left open in winter, and quickly he was able to sort it into at least a category of neutrality. It was all the grounds he needed to continue his investigation.
Fen just let his nose guide him through the crowd, weaving through people like there were trees in the wood. He didn't have to travel far for his eyes to settle upon the shape a few feet off to his right. He'd lean forward on the rail, folding his arms neatly across one another before another sniff at the air was given to confirm his suspicion.
It seemed this place was all too content to throw surprises at him.
Now he decided to wait and see if the recognition went both ways, making it into a kind of game he might have played in his own youth.