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MeredithRodneyMckay 
Her gaze shifted however when Thereos started talking. Up to that point he hadn't said anything when Issy had been there, so maybe now she would get an answer to her previous question - what was going on?
Animals leaving the forest? Mars in retrograde? ....she had never quite understood Divination, it wasn't one of her better subjects, it had to be said. But it was for the centaur, and his tone was...worrying. Even if Max was being dismissive.
Giving him a glance, Issy cleared her throat and moved forward slightly. "Thereos, you say things are amiss, but do you know what?" If they were trying to escape, surely something was causing it.
"If you cannot be bothered to watch the signs and learn to read them," Thereos intoned, his eyes flickering to the patches of sky visible above them as if he was truly addressing the stars and not the people surrounding him. "If you cannot do those things, then I am not sure I can say a word of proof to you. I know what the signs say, and I know what the animals fear. You are all too human to listen to the world share its secrets openly, even when they could not be spake more clearly."
His tail flicked impatiently. The time weighed heavily upon him, and he was already speaking too freely.
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BanaBatGirl "I'm not blind," William answered the centaur with a skeptic glance. "I'm just... doubtful. I've dealt with my fair share of dangerous creatures, Thereos." Yeah he already knew who the centaur was. Come on. He had worked with dragons in the past too, so.... he was not scaring William with his cryptic warnings.
"Exactly," William piped up, pointing at Max and then back at Thereos. "My JOB is to keep an eye on the creatures out here," probably including his so-called 'colleague' and, "I am not worried in the least."
Aha see! ANOTHER skeptical professor! William was going to just grab this bull by the horns and cut to the chase.
"If there's so much 'danger' in the forest," William scoffed loudly, "why don't you just SHOW us where it is? Actions speak louder than words, Thereos."
Do it. You won't.
"You understand nothing." There was an unspoken 'puny human' tacked on there at the end, and Thereos finally lowered his gaze to the impatient man. Ifs and whys were all very well, but he placed too much emphasis on his own limited knowledge of the universe. Answers didn't make sense if you didn't have the capacity to understand.
"I will take you into the forest, although you would be wiser to heed the creatures who flee from its depths." And he turned with a stomping of his hind legs to canter in the direction of the darker smudge of shadows and trees against the already dark night.