[center][color=Khaki][h2]Naahdira Saaba[/h2][/color][/center]
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Naahdira barely nodded at the leather-clad man's departure, staring towards the horizon. What lay there, beyond human sight, where world met sky? Surely, the legends could not [i]all[/i] be untrue. There had to be something there. Or what if the world was a disc, in a sea of stars, like some philosophers liked to say? Would there just be endless nothing below them? Would- Naahdira's thoughts were interrupted by their captain speaking loudly to everyone at the front of the train. 

"[color=e0ffff]Ho! My fellow beacons of life in this cruel wasteland! A joyous close to the first day, isn't it? I feel as if the whole of Oasis couldn't stop us if they tried! With luck this blasted desert won't either.[/color]"

Cruel? That was certainly one way to look at it. Was life truly cruel? And was the desert a wasteland, if Oasis existed? And why would Oasis even try and stop the journey? [color=Khaki]"Mr. Hannibal, why would they want to stop the Caravan? There are quite a few people, including yourself, whom most of Oasis would be glad to see die in the desert."[/color] 

Naahdira had no idea how pessimistic and insulting the statement had sounded before she had said it, and a little bit of a wince worked its' way onto her normally placid face. [color=Khaki]"Ah, I didn't mean to imply that the Caravan would fail to return, and I didn't mean to say that you wouldn't be welcome back in Oasis. I just meant that there are quite a few people who are unpopular back there in Oasis on this trip."[/color]

Damn it, why couldn't she say what she meant the first time? Why was she so... awkward in social situations? What was wrong with her? 

Was it the years of being alone in the desert, hunting, without her sister to guide her? Was it all of the violence and the reputation that followed it as a mercenary? Or was it the lonely, dark nights, in which she exterminated people like animals as the Wraith? Why couldn't she... [i]be[/i] like the others? 

This was why she was going to kill herself, after all. She was guilty of more crimes than almost anyone in Oasis, she didn't deserve to live. She was a freak who couldn't even speak to other people right- again, her dark train of thought was interrupted once more by Hannibal speaking. 

[@Snagglepuss89]