As soon as the riders where out of sight Jason's wings dropped down to his sides,flooding with their normal colors but his freckles scales where fading to a pink rimmed soft ice blue.

Ash stands. Grim stops grooming himself and says, "I know a shortcut. Follow me." As Grim continued, they turned a corner and suddenly found a large cement tube in their path. It was a drainage pipe there was open air and blue skies through the hole.

Jason stood as well and shook himself a bit,quickly following the two. He seemed to be giving Ash more and more space,hurt gray filling in his rainbow scales and freckle scales as he followed,and he looked...uninterested at the pipe as his gaze examined it.

"Remember, once we are through, we will not be able to return to the Nevernever this way." He gave Jason a long stare, not a good one. "Also, remember, dragon--you have been to the Nevernever. The glamour over your eyes is gone. Though other mortals will not see anything strange about you, you will see things a little...differently. So try not to overreact."

Jason was slightly confused and it showed past his indifferent look. He had flinched slightly at the look Ash had given him. He looked to Ash and his scales turned a strange...emotionless transparent. "I thought I was your prisoner...what does he mean "I'll see things a little differently"? Wheren't you going to kill me?" His tone was slightly questioning but also a bit of a jock. No longer with his flirty tone hitching it to seem up beat.

"I was," he snapped. "I decided not to. For now." They emerged from the drainage pipe to the sounds of car engines and street traffic. They were in a downtown area, with buildings looming over them on either side. A sidewalk extended over the drainage pipe; beyond that, rush hour traffic clogged the roads and people shuffled down the walkway, absorbed in their own small worlds. The air here was cold, and dirty slush clogged the sidewalks and drains. Grim half-closed his eyes, peering around the town and the people rushing by them

Jason sighed softly,not really in a satisfied way tho. It was more...confused and upset toward himself. His wings and tail retracted,making him grit his teeth slightly as they pulled back in. "But why." He said under his breath as he pulled himself out of the pipe in a way so that he slipped off to the side in a way so that he didn't draw attention. This place he knew,it wasn't to far from his home part of the town.

As he was thinking, a large figure in a tattered red hoddie lurched out of the crowd and came towards them, clutching a bottle in a sack. He looked like a homeless person. As he got close, he raised his head and a wrinkled, bearded face with fangs jutting crookedly from his jaw was visible. In the shadows of the hood, his eyes were yellow and slit like a cat's. "Pretty boys," the stranger growled, reaching out with claws. "You came from there, didn't you? Send me back, now. Send me back!"

Jason quickly slipped to the side of the persons grasp,his eyes a bit shocked but he seemed to hide his emotions well now being back where he felt right again. He didn't respond rather,just gave a shrug and an apologetic look. His gaze flicked to the pipe as if....he felt he wished to see Ash again,but he cut himself off from looking that way,knowing he had no right to feel as he did...and he didn't want to anymore. Ash didn't like him at all,and it seemed he would get back to planning to kill him again anytime.

Grim got in front of both of the boys, fluffing out to twice his size. His yowling screech sent the faery away with a gurgling cry. None of the humans seemed to notice the fleeing bum.