I don't think you'll ever leave this forest again. [ Either way, that much is true. Because Agreas has never actually shown himself to any of the humans and let them leave these forests again in the end - the only ones that left to tell the weird tale of mysteriously going missing in that forest are the ones that he only watched from a distance before he deemed them unfit to be his queen. But somehow with Elijah it doesn't quite feel like that... Mostly since Agreas wants this time to be right. Elijah could be his one chance to find the person he's been looking for for such a long time now, deep within the forest.

He's saying it with a surprising casualness in his tone for the content of his words. Most humans would freak out at hearing those words, after all, and with a good reason. Even if Agreas isn't necessarily implying that Elijah will end up dying here in the forest, it still means that Agreas isn't planning on letting him go back to his regular life, to everything he's known until this point.

It doesn't seem to bother Agreas though, and he strokes the human's cheek for another moment before pulling his hand back. He tilts his head a little instead to regard the other, the crown of twigs and thorns not falling out of his hair at the movement - like it's just nested in there.

Elijah really does seem perfect as long as he doesn't get too unreasonable right now. It makes the forest king feel an odd sort of sensation - almost some sort of excitement that he's never felt before in his eternal existence. He actually is eager to take the human back to his castle, to make him his queen. ]

... You're sharp anyway, aren't you? [ He can see that much in Elijah's eyes. It might be part of the reason he hasn't freaked out yet like some other humans have at the mere sight of him, who knows. It's something that Agreas likes about the other, anyway. ] You know nothing here is normal.

[ Because this is his domain - and he certainly isn't normal by any means. ]