"You should know, hitting someone unarmed is not considered very heroic. Many of your undying fans would be extremely disappointed to hear you'd do such a thing." He leaned closer to whisper secretively, "But I won't tell anyone, Sunshine." A teasing air entered his glamoured voice. He waited long enough for a crimson blush to bloom across Raven's uncloaked face before pulling back.

"Onto more pressing matters…" Red X ended his antics, trading it for a more serious tone, "Rick, the Alrzo gang leader, hit your occipital lobe. I'm not sure how hard exactly, so I can't tell you whether this'll be temporary or permanent. But with your demon blood my guess is give it a few days and you'll be back on your feet in no time." Of course this, by no means, reassured Raven in any way. Angrily she pushed herself up off her bed and stumbled blindly in what she hoped was the direction to her bathroom.

"Sunshine, I wouldn't–" The thief was cut off as Raven bumped into something, sending said object crashing to the ground. It shattered. With muttered curses the sorceress did her best to skirt around the mess and through the minefield that was her room. Walking towards what she was sure was the bathroom she was shocked by the sudden sensation of being lifted into the air.

"What the heck?" The irritable half-demon demanded, in absolutely no mood for any of the thief's teasing games. "Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't find my way alone! Let me down." Raven could feel her aura lashing out at this point, ready to break whatever it could find. Quickly she calmed herself and pulled back the mass of energy before it dealt any more damage than she already had. Red X only laughed.

"Unfortunately you cannot however, see the shards you just scattered across the floor. It was such a lovely piece too, what origin? Byzantine? Roman? Athens maybe?"

"Azarathian." Raven ground out as X sat her back down and began to walk her across the floor. The man gave a monotonous 'hmm' of contemplation.

"I'm afraid I haven't had the honor of attaining such a piece, where did you manage to find one? Another late night espionage?*" He watched as she bristled at the accusation.

"They are not something you would easily come across now a day, any on Earth have long since been retrieved or destroyed." One of Raven's books relevant to Azarathian history actually told of the happening. All Azarathian artifacts were infused with some kind of charm or spell, granting safety or luck, and in that time those from Azarath freely traveled from their home to Earth, and many of their arts followed them.

As soon as people realized the abilities - which were by them considered, of course, other worldly - and kings sought out the artifacts to aid them in their own conquests for power. When the Azarathians, true pacifists for over a millennia, saw the damage and war surrounding the objects they knew something needed to be done. Soon after people had been sent to reclaim the artifacts, or destroy any that could not be retrieved. Two short years completed the reclamation. The one in Raven's possession had merely been a keepsake, supposed to keep away intruders, although clearly it was not very strong.

"What else do you have in here, Sunshine?" X inquired, reminding Raven that at the moment she shared a room full of strong, rare, and dangerous books and potions with a cocky, pompous, extremely capable thief.

"Don't call me Sunshine. And don't. Touch. Anything." Just her luck he'd go straight or her collection of dragon's bane, which contrary to the 'common sense' of humans was also in fact - if not more so - deadly to humans as well. Not to mention the countless spells and incantations sitting on her shelves, ready to be activated by anyone with a tongue. Unfortunately, and also contrary to popular belief, it didn't take a sorceress to work strong magic, it only took a sorceress to do it correctly.

The thief chuckled, whether it was because he hadn't been planning to or it was absurd to assume he wouldn't try to pull something when there was no one to stop him, Raven could only hope. Either way, as soon as she reached the bathroom she wasted no time shoving him away and slamming the door in his face.

Turning on the water she washed her face, mainly her eyes, before looking up into the mirror for her reflection. Nothing. She tried again, but still with no results. Sighing harshly she finished with the bathroom before walking back out, this time her destination the door.

"A smidge to the left." The monotone voice suggested, and keeping in mind her goal, did as he said. Whether he noted the fact or not Red X didn't mention it but instead continued, "A bit more... not that much, good. See? You don't need to see when I'm here." He began teasing again, and Raven was more than ready to slap that smirk of his face.

"Shut up and help me, or go away." The demoness instructed intent on making it to the kitchen with her pride still intact. The man obliged and together they made it down the hall and stairs without much bad intent. Once the pair had entered the kitchen and X managed to show her to a seat with no remarks, and was rewarded with only a small shove.

"I will not have you making my food." Raven straight out refused as she pushed herself up out of the chair. She was blind, not insane.

"Now now, it's not like I'm going to poison your food, I'm much to kind for that." He said in what Raven assumed was supposed to be mockingly sincere, it really was hard to tell sometimes. She scoffed either way.

"Kind my foot, you think I'm going to believe that when I wake up with no clue where I am and only you around?" She retorted as she stepped towards the fridge. X tutted in dismay.

"Hate to burst your bubble Bluebird, but isn't that exactly what happened this morning?" The thief pointed out. Raven stopped, she had walked herself right into that one. She had to admit he also made a legitimate point, if he hadn't stepped in whenever he did she certainly wouldn't have woken up in the tower this morning, in fact she probably wouldn't have woken up at all. She sighed.

"Fine, but I'm making my own tea, end of story." She had gone through the motions so many times she doubted her sight was even required any longer. Red X seemed content with this, she wouldn't be able to set anything on fire this way, so they both began. As they maneuvered in the spacious kitchen X respectfully stayed out of Raven's way as she repeatedly headed unknowingly straight in his direction without comment.

As she had suspected Raven had no trouble making her way from the cabinet to the stove, or getting out the kettle. In no time everything was set up and all that was left was to wait for the water to heat. Unfortunately Raven knew she wouldn't be able to make it to a chair without drawing unwanted attention, unknowing the thief was already keeping an eye on her, and so remained standing. Seeing her dilemma the man put down what he was mixing and stepped silently over to the damsel, taking her by the shoulder and maneuvering her easily into a nearby chair. He also noted her scarlet coloring as she stared unseeingly in his general direction.

"I'll bring it to you once it starts whistling, so just sit back and try to relax will ya?" Then returned to cooking without a word. There was silence over the expanse of the next few minutes, hanging thick in the air until X absentmindedly broke through it asking, "So what was up with last night? I go for a midnight jump and see you with Rick and some blonde up on a wall."

Raven rolled her eyes at his choice of words, making it sound as if she had intended to hang out with the guy, and shouldn't it be rather obvious what a girl was doing out of the reach of a gang leader? Still she explained, "Whatever they were doing was caught by the system, I just didn't know their leader had super strength, so I was caught off guard. The girl ended up there when I realized I was in trouble."

* Reference to Exchanging Roles