Ankyra Sound then, a vision came to me — when you came along

Couldn't resist. :)

The measured bite of her yellowed stare reached the youth, though he did not quake beneath it as he might have when he was younger.  He was old enough now to have learned to not care what individuals thought of him so long as he was in good standing with Drageda as a whole.

His solid stare found the wraith in turn.  The front of her face was dark, hardly deciperhable from the darkness in which she stood.  The rest of her was deadly pale.  She was like him, marked so starkly that nobody would mistake her for anyone else... but she'd also lived longer and seen more than he could imagine.  When she turned away from him, he followed only after she had disappeared into the yawning darkness, and stayed in suspense between the beckoning void and the safety of light.

He cast a glance over his shoulder and thought about calling for someone, and also thought about returning home to tell the tale of a black-masked stranger in the sound.