Griffin took a seat in the corner, smiling half to himself as he noticed the usual rapid pupil dilation changes that accompany astral scrutiny. He waited till she noticed his aura - bright and strong, unusually so, but looking like a smashed windshield with a chaotic net of fractures connecting into something almost pattern-looking, just beyond the metahuman scope of understanding. He smiled when her eyes widened slightly from the sight. "Good. It was the 'wow!' type of shocked experssion, not the 'wait, his shadow exists on the astral plane' one. She was in a hurry, so she had to miss that. And let's keep it that way, shall we, Shade?"
"I'm Awakened, Miss Lau. A Hermetic Magician in fact. My name is Griffin McBride, you might have heard it already, but I'm... expected to introduce myself properly anyway. I'm an Awakened Forensics specialist, I worked for the Star before their boat went down."
He stands up, with his hand extended, and smiles just enough to pass for a normal metahuman with a mind that's not in pieces. And it all comes to him surprisingly easy... Maybe there was something to it? Maybe faking it will become so natural, that it will not be fake anymore?