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"Never been off this island. Which I've seen every inch of, but that's just about it."

"Wowza..." Raphael couldn't imagine being stuck in one place for his whole life. Even when he'd been younger and was always spending his summers on holidays with his parents it still never felt like enough. The whole 'settle and build a life somewhere' thing just didn't hold the same appeal to him that it did to a lot of other people. "Well," He took on a cheerier tone, "That just means you'll have to do the honors of showing me the grand tour sometime, eh?" If they weren't carrying/pulling heavy bags in that moment, he'd have shown her a playful nudge, but as it was, he stuck to sending her a cheeky grin.

"Well, it's definitely out-of-the-way. Any particular stories you've heard..? Come on, please, if there's anything actually happening here, I want to know,"

Raphael laughed. "Don't tell me you don't know the old stories about this place?" He grinned. When he'd rediscovered this place not so long ago, an old book he'd once read had sprung to mind, and he'd hunted it out, doing a bit deeper research into this place. Usually, he didn't bother to dig too deep into somewhere, but with this place, he might have actually passed it by if he hadn't remembered that little book from ages ago. It had only been a paragraph of information, but it stuck in his mind. "You know, all those stories from way back, before our time... Tales of magic and demons, the divide between those who were and those who were not... There's not a lot out there, but it crops up here and there. It's like... the Salem away from Salem, you know?" For someone who didn't really give a damn about school or learning, he'd become rather taken with the history of the places he visited.