[Her gaze widens with the admission. He's thanking her when all she did was cause a scene. Kainé shakes her head and concentrates on what else he has to say.]

Sounds like it.

[She responds in agreement about his world. Hers isn't much better. According to Devola and Popla humans were all Shades now. And people, whatever they were, weren't much better. Ostracizing anyone who was different. She still scared the shit out of the people of Yonah's village, and she wasn't even possessed anymore.

It was funny that he said that; thought she was strong. Everyone said that, but no one knew how lonely she actually was. Why she wakes up from these dreams every morning filled with pain and sadness. So she spews anger and violence to keep up her walls. Like Tyrann... that part hasn't changed... Except now she has a hole, something or someone she misses deep enough that she wakes up crying every morning.

That's not even getting into how much she loathes herself for being cursed with this goddamn mutant body. Why did she feel the need to come clean with him as well? Why couldn't she just go on having him think she's strong and walk away?]

I'm not strong. To be honest, my life's pretty shitty too.

[She leaned back and put her hands behind her head, crossing her legs.]

I live in a shack outside the ruins of my old village. 'Been living there, alone, since before it was destroyed. The kicked me out when I was a kid.

[She waved it off. ]

Place was a shit-hole anyway. Constantly being attacked by Shades. Bunch of assholes living there too.

[Kainé pursed her lips for a moment before she spoke again.]

When our hands touched. What did you feel?