[center][h2][color=a0410d]Sam Cross[/color][/h2][/center]

The Garen woman, Clarice, offered her a smile as she entered. People didn't smile at Sam too much, so she cherished it. Sam felt a kind of pull to the smiling woman who was now giving her a tl;dr on the situation. She already felt like this person was someone to protect and defend; that they were allies. However, Sam didn't allow herself to think that she could make friends with any of these people, it would raise hopes. Friends never came easy for her, after all. 

The information gained was that this Raze guy (who had almost cut her belly earlier) wanted to go out and be a superhero, while both of the people who she had a connection with insisted it was a bad idea. They thought it was best to be cautious. Sam shifted her weight from one hip to the other, not quite sure what stance to take. Sam was all up for being a superhero! That just sounded rad as hell. The adrenaline, the justice (probably a Demacian drive), and the super coolness of it sounded right up her ally. She would have jumped in, but there was just one detail that made this impulse one she was a bit careful to act on for once. Simply, Sam's power was fire. Not only that, but this fire that she had was far from controllable at the moment. The daredevil's heart screamed to be a superhero, but she acknowledged, with helplessness, that Sam could unexpectedly become a villain. She could create more collateral damage in one wrong move than the criminals she was trying to dispatch.

Sam was awoken from her thought from her being referenced by Liam. A smile grew across her face even though the woman knew that she probably shouldn't. Sure... Liam was saying all that she could do as a bad thing, but she just felt some kind of wildness fueled by the fact that she was regarded as someone who held so much power. She was fixing to interject with something along the lines of, 'Man, when you say it that way I sound pretty badass, not gonna lie.' However, it was just about now that he became a Danny Downer and started talking about dead people. Yeah... dead people really did put a damper on things, huh? Then he went on about people who could become dangerous, and she knew she should be scared, but she wasn't. She knew she could handle anyone from Elise to Vladimir, she could so easily burn the spider and Edward Cullen to a crisp. The only real formidable foe she had to worry about was herself. 

The Malzahar guy spoke up at this point; probably the first time she had heard him speak. He sounded normal enough, but for some reason he struck her as shy. Maybe it was the way he talked, but that was simply her first impression. Perhaps he'd be the perfect person to pick on. However, something that he said did bring a look of curiosity. "[i]How can we be sure that the people in this room are in their right mind?[/i]" It was a bit of a random question to her and Samantha wondered why he brought it up. Sam knew 100% that she was in her right mind. I mean, she might have voluntarily crawled into a live fireplace, but given the circumstances that didn't mean insanity. 

Sam watched as the man went to observe his voidling which was oddly drawn into an abyss made into the floor. The man looked in and his expression was unlike any she had ever seen. It was... as if he was watching his own heart pumping at the bottom of a well, with blood staining the water and noise of the thing still pumping chilling bone. Curiously, Sam narrowed her eyebrows to look at the man, trying to figure out what he was doing. All of a sudden the man screamed, a noise that made her jump before he made a frantic flee to a wall. Sam was the first, and perhaps the only one come to his aid. She didn't rush and start hugging and patting his head or anything, but she came to kneel next to him and ask, "[color=a0410d]Hey, what was that?[/color]" With a moment of thought she continued, "[color=a0410d]Was it the void? It looked like you were staring at death or something.[/color]"

A moment later Artemis came to look at the man with a gaze she hadn't seen in her before. It was so.. cold and analytical. Sam's eyes narrowed, looking up, shocked that her ally would be so cold. Like, Sam could be a real ass sometimes to people, but not the callus way that Artemis had waved away what had just happened. She narrowed her eyes, "[color=a0410d]You know what, there has been a lot of 'reacting suddenly to stimulus', or whatever you said, today.[/color]" She changed her tone. "[color=a0410d]I like you and I want to keep it that way. So how about you restrain [i]yourself[/i] from saying cold shit like that. Okay? Okay.[/color]" She really didn't want to have their happy acquaintance spoiled by this, but at the same time Sam wasn't going to hold her tongue heard stuff like that. For benefit of the doubt, maybe Artemis was in a pissy mood because of these call to actions, but still.

Raze then said some really important things. Sam admired him with his caution to the wind kind of attitude. It really spoke to her as something she supported and believed. However, she didn't appreciate being called a coward. She hadn't even gotten in on all that was going on and she just didn't want to end up burning the city to a crisp! Still, he went on to really call out Artemis. The way he did it really made her impressed and as he went on she was pretty won over. Artemis looked pretty bad while Raze looked pretty justified, even if it was going to probably get him killed. So, when he stomped out, it was Sam who began to applaud and called out after him, "[color=a0410d]Go you! Just don't die![/color]" Her clapping subsided and silence made itself known. However, it seemed Liam knew just how to recover. With booze! Hooray! At the end of Liam's drink responsibly speech, Sam called out. "[color=a0410d]No promises![/color]" Before she saw him coming over with a drink for Moritz. "[color=a0410d]Hey, can you grab me one too? It's okay, I won't get cooties on you.[/color]" She snickered, the evasive glances having not gone unnoticed.

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