"-and I somehow landed a job working at From Dust Till Dawn. After that, I had gotten enough Lien to rent this apartment, and now here I am."

Kira blinked, taking that all in, "Okay," She drawled, "But, why are you trusting me with this information? I could very well tell everybody about you coming from another world."

"And they wouldn't believe you." Silver sighed, "Really, I- I don't know why I'm telling you this. Maybe it's a sense of having too many secrets on my back, maybe it's a sense of not trusting anyone, maybe, maybe, maybe. I don't know why. It's possible an idiot is trying to play god and force us to work together, or maybe even the Brother gods have come back and are making me play to their tune."

"The Brother gods coming back? I thought that they were always here, watching over us." Kira grasped onto the only thing she could from Silver's rant.

Said man snorted, "Do you really believe that? No, the Brother gods left long ago, the younger destroying the moon as he went."

Kira's eyes widened as she looked at Silver, who sighed explosively, rubbing his face with his hands. Silver pushed himself off another chair and closed the blinds. "Wha- Why are you closing them?" Kira asked.

Looking at Kira, Silver raised his right hand. Kira opened her mouth to ask, but no words came out as she saw the six orbs floating above it.

"Fire." The red one lit up in flames. "Earth." The brown one coalesced into dirt and rock. "Air." The green one cleared up to show a tornado. "Water." The blue one shimmered and started making waves upon its surface. "Light." The white golden one lit up. "Darkness." The black one gained a purple hue and looked like it drew light into itself. "The six elements that define this world." Silver lifted his eyes from the orbs, and stared into Kira's wide, golden ones, "There are only six known users of magic in this world. One is hidden from all. One is known across Remnant. The other four? Hidden. Scattered across Remnant, never ceasing in their attempts to blend in."

"Wha-? What?" Kira was speechless.

Silver closed his hand and fell into his seat heaving a sigh. "Do you know the tale of the Four Maidens?"

Kira was taken aback at the sudden change in topic, "Huh? Yeah, that old tale? What does it have to do with anything?"

"Everything." Silver stressed, "The old man is still alive, the maidens, while not the original ones, are still out in this world. The magic powers that the old man granted the maidens are the same ones that I have."

Kira was silent for a moment, absorbing the information. "So," She finally said, "You're saying that you- are a maiden?"

"Yes- wait what? No! That's not at all what I'm implying!" Silver waved his hands erratically.

"Sure seems like it."

"No, no. What I'm saying is that I have a similar power to them- not necessarily the exact same thing." Silver stood up, "Now, enough about me and brooding on dark and dangerous topics, what about you. Did you get hurt badly from the thugs?"

Kira raised an eyebrow, "Oh, now you're wondering about my wounds?"

"Shut up, you made me brood. It's technically your fault for making me forget about that." Silver called out as he rummaged through the cupboards. Letting out an 'aha!' as he found what he wanted, he moved back to the seats. "Is there anything majorly different about Faunus biology from Human biology that I should know about?"

"Other than the extra appendages?" after gaining Silver's nod, Kira continued, "No, we're basically just the same as humans."

"What about reptilian Faunus? Are they cold-blooded or warm-blooded?"

"What?"

"Faunus with reptilian features, like a lizard or a snake."

"No, what's cold and warm-blooded?"

Silver paused from where he was looking through his first-aid kit, "You're telling me, that you have no idea what cold-blooded and warm-blooded is?"

"No, should I have?" Kira asked hesitantly.

Silver brought his hands together in front of his face and breathed deeply, "BOI." Recomposing himself, he spoke, "Are you really serious? Are people on Remnant really that stupid? No, of course they are- they're all focused on survival from the Grimm, not about the specifics of basic fucking healing! Knowing whether a reptilian faunus is cold-blooded or not is really freaking important! If you gave a blood transfusion from a reptilian faunus to a WARM-BLOODED human or faunus could mean LIFE OR DEATH! Honestly, I should start treating people on this world like idiots if they don't even know the difference of cold-blooded and warm-blooded." Silver sighed explosively as he finished his rant.

Hesitantly, Kira spoke up, "To be fair, I only said that I don't know what the difference is, not everyone on Remnant."

Rubbing his temples, Silver waved his hand dismissively, "Yeah, I know. I just had to get that out. If you stick around with me, you'll be hearing loads more rants." Silver sat up and started pulling out items from the first-aid kit, "Now, show me your 'wounds'."

Lifting up her legs and holding up her hands, she asked, "If you don't mind me asking, what is the difference between cold-blooded and warm-blooded creatures?"

Moving to where he could successfully help her, Silver answered her question, "I don't mind. Cold-blooded creatures can't warm up themselves. Snakes, lizards, and other reptiles can't produce their own body heat, so they rely on the sun for it. I'd assume you've seen lizards or snakes basking in the sun before?" Getting a nod from Kira, he continued, "Then they were sun-bathing, gaining heat from the sun to warm their bodies."

"So, warm-blooded creatures make their own heat, if I'm guessing correctly?"

"Yup, now you're getting it!" Silver moved back to admire his handiwork, "Alright, I think I've gotten you patched up for now. It already did a good job of healing, but it could've gotten infected. All you need now is to head home and rest."

"I-I don't-" Kira started, stopping at Silver's explosive sigh, "Er- what?"

"I swear," He muttered, "The world's out to get me."

"Are- Are you mad?"

"No, I'm not mad at you. Just exasperated. After the events of today, I've used up my amount of social contact."

"What? Social contact?" Kira echoed confusedly.

"Yes, social contact. I have a mental meter of how much of people talking I can take before I have to recharge. I can usually last the entire day without it running out, but it runs out faster with more. . . interesting topics, like the one we just discussed."

"Sooo, what now?"

"What's going to happen now is that I'm going to pull out the futon and you are going to get some rest. And I'm going to work on one of my projects."

"Futon? Wait, you have a futon?!"

"Yes, they're cheaper than couches, relatively speaking, and can be collapsed for easy storage." Silver called as he moved into the adjoining room. "Alright, HUPTY HO!" Kira heard him yell, along with some grunting noises.

Kira watched with something like morbid amusement as Silver brought an entire futon into the room she was seated in. "Alright, If, you could, move the chairs, that'd be helpful," he said between grunts.

Kira quickly nodded and did so, moving away as he let the metal frame onto the ground carefully. Straightening up, Silver commented, "I guess moving boxes of Dust did more for me than I thought." Kira stared at the futon frame, still trying to process how Silver'd done it. Silver sighed as his attempt at humor being ignored, "I'll get the cushion-blanket and a few extra blankets. Once I get back, you're going to get some rest."

"Huh? Wha-?" Kira started but Silver was already around the corner. "What do you mean?!"

"You didn't hear me before, did you." It wasn't a question. Silver came around the corner carry a rolled up futon cushion on one shoulder and held a few other blankets in the other. "You're going to get some well needed rest while I'm working on my own projects."

"But-" Kira started, but got cut off by Silver, "Nope. You are going to get some rest. Heck knows you need it." Silver set the futon cushion on the futon and rolled it out, making it sit near-perfectly. He tossed the blankets onto the futon and turned around to look at Kira, "You need it. After the excitement of today, you need to. Heck, I'm repeating myself. But it's still true."

Silver turned and walked into the adjoining room, leaving Kira with one last message, "If you need me, just call for me." and started working on his project.

Kira stared at the little hallway where he exited. Sighing heavily, she sat down on the futon, somehow knowing that he'd make her rest. There was also the knowing that she didn't really have a home to go back to.

You hate me, don't you. You though that I'd show you his entire story in the form of him telling Kira, but NOPE! I'm a little troll like that. Plus, it'd ruin the fun of the story if I told you all the details, wouldn't it?

Anyway, yeah. he has magic. deal with it. I have plans for Silver and Kira. And it's going to be a fun few months for them.

If you're thinking that he's stupid to let Kira sleep in his apartment- look at his explanation above- Silver doesn't know what to do. He's only BSing his way through things.

I'm thinking of making the next chapter a timeskip- I doubt you'd want me to describe every day. It gets boring real quick.

Follow, Favorite, Review. I don't care.

Until next time,

-FreohrWK

(PS, don't get excited about the three chapters with five day breaks, it's only my own excitement that's keeping this thing going.)

Edit: Forgot something in AN. But bah, it doesn't really matter to me all that much.