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[color=ed1c24][h3]Angel Ferrara[/h3]

"I've never had anyone else. Dad died when I was six," [/color]the pretty boy said quietly. [color=ed1c24]"Rest of my life, it was the monsters and me."[/color]

Not that there was anything wrong with forest living. It had taught him a degree of self-reliance and improvisation on his feet that he would have never gotten growing up in a place like Fiore. It had taught him what was worth attaching yourself to and what was worth letting go. It had taught him how useless it was to cry over things like cold in the middle of the night, and how to grit your teeth and bear it without screaming after the sixth or seventh time in your life you find yourself being mauled in the same fashion. 

But there were things every child knew that Angel would never, ever discover. And even after five years removed from Boundary Forest, people like Cyare constantly made him realize how little he belonged outside of it.

[color=ed1c24]"She bears with me a lot."[/color]
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[h1]Cyare Staunton[/h1]

"I'm sorry." The apology, or perhaps a condolence, was much quieter than she had been. A lapse in the cool collection of her demeanor, or the faintly amused air she had emanated before. She had... Failed to consider the causes of those scars. Thoughts that made much more sense now. She could fill in some of the blanks, at least with a pretty good idea, and it wasn't a pretty picture. Something she should have taken into account. His attachment, as well, made much more sense. His friend was very important to him. With good reason.

Odd. He grew up without others, so he was drawn to them. Bonded closely with them. Cyare herself had seen too much of others, and she was much more distant. She preferred, and she was self-aware enough to know of her preference, to be alone. Or travel only with one or two others that she believed she could trust, not necessarily to have her back but to at least be consistent.

... Not the time to be looking in the mirror.

"That much have been very difficult for you. I apologize for any offense, I did not know."