A meeting with the Rune Knights...?

Lilith straightening up, clapping her hands together happily as he agreed to tag along for the mission. Hopping out of her seat, she had almost forgotten that Aven had promised to treat her to breakfast. Raising a brow at the generous tip he left for the waitress, wondering idly just how much money Aven was worth? He certainly dressed like a rich-boy and spoke like one too. Her thought-track was derailed as he winked at her, offering his own flirty retort. She smirked, it was clear that the two of them having sex had given him somewhat of a boost. It wasn't that he had been confident when she met him, but there had been a level of innocence there. His soft blushes had been a delicious sign of his own uncertainties, it was tempted to see just how much their night of intimacies had affected him. To push the limits and see what kind of reactions she could get from him, and see if she could once again, make Aven Alveron blush.

Or better yet, submit.

Lilith moved over to Boris, explaining to him that she would be taking Aven along. He would glance over Aven for a brief second and then without a word began transferring the intel on the warehouse locations to Lilith's iLac. "I'll send a squad to wait for your command. They'll be positioned a block down the road from the warehouse if you need them just dial the number I sent you." He explained, "Kadokawa, I mean it when I say this. This is a major operation, it's crucial that we find their stash, but don't put yourself in any unnecessary risk you hear me?" He ordered. She rolled her eyes, "Have faith, BJ, have I ever let you down?" She asked him playfully, before moving back over to Aven. "An undercover vehicle will be here shortly to take us to the location, you good to go?"

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As the undercover vehicle pulled up outside, she would lead Aven out of the cafe and climb inside.   It was ideal that they weren't in uniform right now, as if the warehouse had any scouts they would likely recognise the military force from miles away. With any luck Aven and Lili would just appear like a couple in the wrong neighbourhood, adding the element of surprise should they run into any trouble. As they set about their journey Lili turned in her seat to face to Aven, figuring now was as good a time as any to ask.

"So like, you've asked about my magic, but we haven't talked about yours. It might help me if I know what am I working with?" She asked, she only seen Aven use magic twice for combat purposes, once as a shield on herself which she didn't even notice and then the ball and chain he created to knock out the gang leader she was dealing with. He was bound to be strong to be able to rid someone of their consciousness in a single blow, "Have you dealt with anything like this before, I'm not super familiar with the work Fairy Tail mages do, but my guess is dealing with the occasional criminal is involved?" She would ask, strength aside, a persons experience was also an important factor. Perhaps it might have been more sensible to learn more about Aven before inviting him along for the ride, but considering the lack of time and the alternate choices. It seemed that the Rune Knight would just have to hedge her bets on her most recent fling.

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Protection magic. Huh. It was certainly fitting considering the way that they had met. She arched a brow, "Dark energy huh. Sounds edgy," She remarked casually in response, glancing out of the window. She would take a mental note of their location, and how long it would take for them to get to the warehouse. It was pretty wild all things considered, that a boring day at the office with turn into a night of relentless sex with a guy she hardly knew, and then the next day she and this same individual would be teaming up together to take down a drug syndicate. Not to mention, her eggs benedict had been absolutely pucker.

Aven would continue to explain the functionality of his magic, drawing Lilith's emerald gaze back to him. He would tell her that the dark particles were a part of him, which brought up another thought track. Whilst Aven's magic was quite dissimilar to hers, there was something about the feel of it which felt vaguely familiar. Like a meal with ingredients you indulged in often, different it's overall essence but with similar tastes to things you've indulged in before. If that was, the correct analogy for it. Lilith wasn't as well-taught on magic as she would have liked to have been, everything she knew was actually self-taught and recent. One of the many perks of escaping the confines of the Kadokawa household. However, it was for this reason that she hadn't come across other magics like hers, or ever had the sense to 'feel' the magics of others in this way. Her experience with Aven could be considered a first for her also, although the virginal scenarios were vastly different in nature. What with Lili's being exposed to someone else who manipulated a type of dark energy and his being...well losing his virginity.

"That's fine. What I know is fairly combat focused so don't you worry your pret-" Her words were cut short as her eyes glazed over, she jolted in her seat. Staring at Aven with a blank expression, almost as though she had become void of all emotion. To him, the contents of the vehicle would appear as normal aside from Lili's strange demeanour but to Lili, there was an entirely different visual presented to the Rune Knight. The man sat across from her wasn't there anymore, instead sat there was a mass of darkness. An empty void where his body should have been and as she stared at the void, some of the darkness would take a new shape. Protruding from its centre, a hand of black mass would stretch out, with elongated slender fingers and sharp nails. It would reach out to Lili, stretching closer to her face, the hand would run its index finger across her cheek. Sending a peculiar surge of energy through Lilith's body, she jolted once more, blinking furiously.

And as she looked at Aven this time, he would appear... normal. No black mass, no creepy feminine hand, none of it. Lilith's face mimicked a look of slight bewilderment and she turned from Aven sharply. Her breathing somewhat quicker than before. What the fuck. She thought to herself, entirely jarred by the situation. Had she just hallucinated? Or fallen asleep perhaps? No, surely not. She had felt that... the sensation of the hand touching her, the feeling that flooded her when it did.

A sense of warmth.

But not like heat, more in the sense of emotional warmth, protective and doting. Something Lilith was not used to feeling. Realising she probably seemed weird to Aven, she looked over to him once more. Attempting to return to the same relaxed state she had exhibited before. "Er yeah... like I said. Don't worry about it. We'll totes kick ass." She told him reassuring. Putting the incident out of her mind, she adjusted herself. Becoming focused on the mission once more, albeit slightly less playful than she had been moments ago. Lilith would head into the mission with a sense of newfound determination, the result of her experience and Aven's abilities later resulting in the successful apprehension of the gang's supply and several more of their men in custody. With enough evidence to strongly convict them, despite the slight hiccup, Lilith would call that; A job well done.

It was amusing to think that this had all occurred just because she had been working on the desk and Aven had strolled in with a complaint about Dies Irae. But it was that sweet irony that continued to fuel the Ravenette, inflating her resolve to push forward within the Rune Knights. It would only be much later on that she would learn the true ramification of her night with Aven and the vigorous relations they had shared.

And that of the horrors, it would unleash.

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