a tour around hell

Definitely. This was a lot longer than expected. Good thread, Will.

The pair of lupines had seemed to arrive to a noticeably different part of the woods, a section of land that held no bright and happy rich lands that the rest of the Bypass held. It also seemed to be closed off, some sort of hold.
His new home.
With a no emotion ebbing to his redish orange and black hued face, the russian stopped, and turned to his escort.

"I left because I had to escape assassination by my family. "
The recon dryly laughed, a short sound that held no sliver of happiness in it, only an abyss of hatred, the one emotion he felt comfortable with showing his leader.

"It's funny how enemies can't get as close to you as family, but family are the ones who are the swiftest to murder you. "

A foreboding look came upon his fierce green eyes, and then he turned to look between his new cage and the man who brought him there, replacing the brief emotions with the emotionless mask he wore so well, but only to halfway place it upon his face.
There would be no reason to put it back on. One who knew so well what the other's past wrought, he would have no trouble seeing past such s flimsy thing as an illusion. He and Shadow now had an unbreakable understanding.

"Is there anything else you need, Praetor? "