(Like) Adding (some kind of) wings to a (sort of a) tiger (shifter)

Adam decided Sebastian wasn't only intriguing when he was being serious, but a little frightening as well. He tried to remember a time when he had tried superspeeding with anybody else. No one came to mind. And he couldn't exactly use Superman or the Flash either. Those were made-up stories.

Then he remembered that one time he ran to the aid of a cat. "You're not," he said, equally serious. "There's this one time a cat sneaked into the mansion. It was a stray and it had gotten into the garden somehow. And it got stuck, typical, on one of the trees. I was just recovering from my accident at that time. I thought it would be great to get some air. That's when I saw it. I tried to coax it down, but it wouldn't. It just climbed higher up. So I just watched it from there. After a while, it still hadn't come down. My brother's toy helicopter came buzzing out of nowhere and it hit the tree."

He frowned when he remembered the time he saw that damn cat jump. "It panicked, I guess. And off the tree it went. But it was too high for even a cat to land safely... I remember time slowing down. I watched it fall slow mo, like in the special effects in the movies. I walked up to it just as it was falling to my chest level. I held it an walked all the way to the adoption center. Then time came back to normal like nothing and it's fine as rain since I last checked. Even got a new owner, little girl named Cassie."

Adam smiled at the memory. "That cat never did learn. A couple of times, Cassie would call me to get it out of a tree or their roof. Since then, it was called Sky High. Get it? Cuz it's always climbing on high places like it wanna reaches the sky?" Adam said before he winced at the bad joke. That wasn't his fault though. And he had the same reaction when Cassie explained it just like that. He sighed. "Anyway, my point is you're not the first to get supersped to some place, all right? So it's perfectly safe."

"Yeah. Every twelve years here on earth, there's a harvest moon happening in Equilibrium. And every..." Dreizel trailed off to calculate in his head again, his forehead forming lines. Math was never his strong point. "Zero point eighty-three? Yeah, every zero--Ah, no actually, that's 0.083. Yep. Every point oh-eight-three-three-three-three and so on years in Equilibrium, a harvest moon rises here. Pretty cool huh?" He grinned proudly at his little achievement with regards to the mathematics as he walked with Samael through the thinning forest.

Dreizel could see the top of the school buildings better now that there were less trees covering them from sight. He wondered how they'd look from one of those high windows traversing through the edge of the woods. He listened about how troublemakers here are taken care of.

"One of the reasons why this place is going to be my favorite places," the fallen angel added. "It already is, actually. Mostly because the food here is incredible." He didn't know how food from his place actually tasted because his race never needed to eat. But Dreizel wouldn't know how to explain that without lying. Luckily, he had a solution to get them away from that topic.

"You're student here too, right?I'm in 12th grade. What level are you in?" he asked curiously. It would be good if they had some classes they could take together. And it'll be nice if Dreizel and Samael could hang out during break times.

"Well, it's not really..." Dreizel said shyly when he was complimented. He shrugged a little as he pushed his hands into his pockets. He chuckled. "Just some numbers and division and stuff..."

He looked at the buildings ahead. They were in the campus grounds now. It won't be long before Dreizel could go in to ask about his friend. Friends, rather, as he was looking for more than one person. And it won't be long before Samael would be turning around and heading back to the woods probably.

"You're in senior year? I mean at college," Dreizel inquired with a little bit of shock on his face. He had thought college students should look... older or more mature at least. Samael didn't sport that kind of face at all. He looked like he would be in his early 20's still, even younger than 20 maybe. "I thought you'd be a freshie or a sophomore. You look young... Unless you started early?"

"That's weird. You look younger than twenty-one," Dreizel answered. Then again, maybe it was different between the people here and from Equilibrium. "But my guess was pretty close. I was thinking you were around nineteen or twenty."

And almost automatically, Dreizel considered Samael to be another 'big brother' type of friend, despite their age gap. He was basing it on their school levels. And Samael honestly seemed more mature than he is. "By the way you're reacting, I'm guessing you don't get that a lot," he asked. They were getting closer to the Administration building now. Dreizel could feel the conversation coming to a stop real soon, even though he would've like to keep the ball rolling a little more.

They could always meet again sometime. They were both students here. And Dreizel had a feeling that might not be the first time he's going to go off into the woods for some air.

As Samael fondly recollected the memories of how others guessed his age wrong, Dreizel could feel himself smiling. It wasn't hard to imagine why they'd think that with Samael's height.

"Well, friends, actually," Dreizel said with another shrug. "There's another dude I'm looking for other than that hybrid. I'm not as sure about whether he might be here or not though."

And soon, they'd finally arrived at their destination. Dreizel turned to look at Samael and gave him a grateful grin. "Thank you."Well I'm not doing anything tonight so maybe you could treat me to a few cocktail drinks like you promised. I'm pretty sure I won't get lost when I'm in the city though. Just give me landmarks and I promise I'd get to your bar easily. I'll probably be arriving at around..." He looked around for a clock. "Maybe I could get there somewhere between 7:30 to 8 pm? Depending on how deep into the city your bar is."