Re: Axel: Rae & Fen
Rae had no intention of pursuing his sister around the length of a county, far less the continent. She had followed Nel, because Nel had proved a fixed point of sanity, of reasonable rejection of fate for fate's own sake. She had followed Nel because after Mexico, sanity had been - well. Questionable might have been the word. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, if not an outright ally and Nel might have been compass but she was not the map.
"You mistake me, darling," she said now, to Fen, amusement curling in the corners of her mouth. "I meant no pursuit nor mark. I've no intention of haring after anyone, merely establishing where those who also wish not to be found might provide further defences." She'd no doubt that the town could slake more than one misplaced god's desires: the shanty town that comprised the local whoring establishment, the woods were deep and turbulent. Rae regarded Fen now with frank, shameless gaze. It was too naked to be truthfully human.
"And yours, darling? Can you slake it and leave the town still standing?" Rae's satisfaction was complex, it ran in parallels. Her anchors, her reasons for existing were simple: a lack of desire to move onward and a fascination with how deep the town might run. It wasn't simply a town, that much was apparent. "I've enough amusements to keep me static for the time being." She'd no idea he thought her permanence direct result of his sister; Rae would have laughed.