“You shouldn’t bite your nails.” She said behind him, instantly making him stop and slightly jump up.

His figure sat back down and looked behind himself, “Can you ever make yourself known without giving me a heart attack?”

“That’s kinda stale for my taste.” Ena hid in the boy's shadow, making herself look like a small black blob in his shoulder, “Are you busy today?”

“I'm supposed to be in class… so no.” He looked at his shoulder watching the blob, its eyes just white little dots, looking much friendlier than when she took a humanoid form as a shadow. 

“Ah, I didn't go to school at your age either.” She paused, keeping herself from remembering the times, “So let's make use of this time. I'll show you something. “ She moved herself, turning it into a hand and enclosing the area they were in. For anyone outside the area was empty but inside it looked like a void. 

Ena moved and put on an appearance similar to her corpse. Her hair was longer and her face was stoic, looking more transparent like you could walk past her, “Can you turn into animals?”

The question came as a surprise while he looked at the voide like thing they were in, “I can.” he said, turning into a dog and sitting, “What's so great about turning into an animal?” The form was much better than the previous time she'd seen him copy her. It looked like an actual dog, a proper nose, legs didn't look off and his eyes looked the right size.

“It can be helpful in situations.” She said, and moved her hand, showing him a lion, “But do try something more ferocious.”

He looked at the lion in awe, “Is that an actual lion?”

“Yes.” She stepped closer to it and grabbed it by its mane, “It's wild, but that's better because you can see their actual behavior and mimic it.'' The lion growled slightly, it was still young and it didn't have a full mane. Held tightly, she set him in front of the boy and held the lion's shadow to keep it from moving, “Touch it if you want.”

Zamir turned back into himself having a wide smile on his face, instantly grabbing at the lion and digging his hands into the beast mane, “This is so awesome.”

Ena chuckled and pulled the lion back, “Try turning into it.”

He stepped back and looked at the beast intently before attempting it, “How does it look?” 

His form was odd to say the least. His mane was exaggerated, his eyes far too small, looking back at the real thing and him she sighed, even the paws were too thin.

“Try again. Look closer.” She told him, and snapped her finger making a mirror appear behind, “take a look at yourself as well.”

He turned and saw his form, noticing how different it really was from the real thing. Turning his head and looking back at the lion, he watched his reflection and changed anything that wasn’t exact. His mane took a better shape, his paws were bigger and his eyes didn't look as tiny. 

He walked towards the beast and stood beside it, “Spot any differences?” he asked her. 

Ena looked between the two, “That was rather quick of you. Tail still needs fixing though.” The tail was short but aside from that she couldn't spot another difference.

 He grumbled and changed it to match, “Now?”

“Perfect. You've done well.” She grabbed the lion back up and threw him out, his roar rang out as she closed the void back up. 

“You can't get hurt right? Is that why you flung the lion off like some doll?” Zamir's question caught her off guard. 

She faced him, “You're wrong kid. I can get hurt, it just takes someone with magic to do it. Which means normally I'm the only one causing myself to hurt. As for the lion, it isn't the first animal I flung around and won't be the last.”

Zamir turned back to himself, crossing his arms, “That's mean.”

“Oh my, I never thought of that.” Ena sarcastically chanted, “Anyways, seems like you can quickly adapt to changing into an animal. But can you copy the behavior? Really, looking the part only takes you so far, even more so if you plan on copying people.”

“I can manage just fine.” He spat, “When I turn into people… I can see a part of them, and I instantly know how to act, or at least partly… but do you really throw animals around?”

“That didn't look to be the case when you turned into me.” She pointed out ignoring that last part, raising a brow, “You might just have been daydreaming.”

“No! You're just an odd case. I see two things when I turn into you. One is all happy and cheery while the other is just sad, she just stays indoors all day.” He explained, “it's like two personalities in one.”

“... Well I'm impressed. Can you do that all the time, or does it require something?” She was curious as to what he was up to. She wanted to see exactly how well this seeing of his was. What he saw, and why it supposedly helped copy someone's personality.

“Eye contact.” He paused and looked Ena in the eyes, having turned back into her, but a smile plastered on his face this time, “It happened again. I see you really happy, all smiles and laughing, and then I see you like you are now… I don't get it.”

“I get it.” Ena told him, looking at the almost exact copy of herself, “You're seeing my corpse and you're seeing my soul. You copy a corpse right now… it's interesting… but let's put you to the test. What did you see?” She asked. 

He stared back at her as she loomed over him, his form turning back to normal, feeling a tiny sense of self, “last time when I copied you in the alley, you were alone in a room, messing with bottles and thing I can't recognize, but your corpse was talking in an office, all smiles as people looked at her.”

To enas mind that was always in sync with that of her corpse she knew his words were genuine, “What did you see this time then?”

“Corpse is again at work, but she looks out a window, and waves at something.” His words matched what had happened earlier, “But you… you're scared on a chair, speaking to a woman across from you… who is she?”

Ena glared at Zamir without noticing, “You've proved your point.” she fixed her expression, “But you're flawed if you let yourself be fooled by pieces of memories. Study your target, don't be deceived by fragments of memories.”

He nodded, “Then I was wrong?”

“No.” She said, crouching down in front of him, “You were so right in copying corpse, it annoyed me.”

“Then why shou-”

“My point still stands. Your shape shifting is flawed, you need practice. And you can't asume personalities because you saw a scrap of it.” She paced around the area around them having chairs appear, her posture leaning back and sitting while turning to look at him again.

“It can work-” he tried to state his point. 

“It can get you killed.” She stood up suddenly, seeing as he bit his tongue and looked away, “Assumptions can be fatal, I sit across from someone and I'm afraid, but you can't tell if I'm afraid of them or what's to come.” she pointed a finger at him, “You see corpses laughing amongst people, smiling and chatting it up but a second later she could kill everyone and still laugh the same, chat with the limbs on the floor and smile with bloodstains on her face.” she grabbed his head making him look up at her blank eyes as her form changed back into a shadow, “I could kill you now, and call it a day.”

Zamir frowned, trying to look away, “I won't make assumptions.”

Ena released him, “Good…” She felt a slight bit of guilt from her actions, hesitating to move her hand and pat his head refraining from doing anything, “I think that's enough practice for today.” the void around them had returned them to the small part of grass Zamir had sat in alone. 

He looked around, seeing he was back, “I should get to class.”

Ena would have let him go if she hadn't looked up and seen the time. The small practice had gone on for hours. Time inside the void was different. It was a place she could control, but the passage of time outside of it she couldn't. While the void had an hour inside of it, the outside was well around six hours. A place where she could manipulate space and time, but could easily lose track of the world outside. 

“I'm pretty sure your classes ended, kid.” She told him, “Come with me then.” 

“But… why?” He asked, but as soon as he did Corpse was walking in their direction. 

That signature smiled towards them as she stopped a few feet away, “You're ten, you have to eat something.” saying this she giggled, “And even soul isn't cold enough to leave you starving also we don't flung animals around i just love them to death.”

Ena said nothing but nudged him forward, “Pick what you want to eat before she does or you'll be stuck with whatever that is.”