[o] keeping it PG - Positively Gory

Relieved to hear that she's not only gotten it right, but that she doesn't have to struggle through the long syllables of his name again, her eyes shine a little brighter, back straightening as she perks. "Okay Asta! My name's Knell!" Although she's already guessed that he knows that, there's a childish glee in introducing herself, saying her name aloud as she continues to claim it along with her new standing in the world. 

When she directs the conversation to him and his scars, surprise spreads openly across her face. "Oh," she says, intrigue and curiosity only rising as he gives her bits and pieces of information. Tilting her head again, she probes a little more. "How? Was it an accident?" Or - even more tantalizing - did someone do it to him on purpose?

Asta helps lift the book from her lap, politely placing a feather on her current favorite page as he flips through to a different section that he angles towards her for inspection. Bracing her hands against the obsidian of the bench, Knell leans closer to inspect the page, tracing the bifurcating paths with her eyes. They're drawn in a red that already has her suspecting its purpose, but her mouth falls open, gawking as she looks to Asta for confirmation. "Is that all blood?"

Knell