LeeAnn was not surprised by Selena's reaction. Scars and bruises were splotched all over her like bug bites. It was amazing how much she had collected. Selena was the only other person besides Hans and Concord who knew. She always wore long sleeves and long pants to hide these sort of things. People would question her about what had happened and she hated that attention of sympathy and pity or at least pity. Sympathy was a bit different to her since it was more of a relation to that person. In all this sea of people in Fiore, there would be one person...one person who could relate to some degree of her pain. They were a collect of scars she had gotten over the years even before she became a Rune Knight. That wretched place. No light. No sound but her breathing and thoughts echoing for someone to hear her. Quickly, she shivered at the thought. Her eye looked back at Selena still in shock. "Please, dont feel sorry for me. I don't want pity. I just want a friend" she replied.
Selena seemed to relax a little, but she could see there was some worry. LeeAnn laughed a little. "I saw that. Poor Kon. I can say easily you have surpassed me, but I just had filthy luck against Rowan. My body gave out plus with me just getting out of the hospital kinda well...does that to ya. I am cheering you, my brother, and Rowan on. Either way, you are a good fighter" she said. Once she asked the question, Selena seemed to look at the mountains that surrounded Baska while thinking. She said she realized she had become nicer. LeeAnn was great at observing behavior after doing it tons of times with people at bars and reading on first impressions. "You have. I can read a person quite well and its probably because you have become more comfortable. A team will do that. My brother has always been super independent. Sure I have, but he will never accept a team. I was quite shocked when he wanted to form a team. He has...been more willing to change his ways just a bit. He's getting even a bit friendlier especially with a few people" she smiled. She looked back at her with a smile. Last time at the bar, the two of them were getting all buddy-buddy due to the alcohol. The booze does bring the truth out of people she had noticed. Its was things like this she was thankful for the immunity to the drinks. "I am sure someone can make him realize having people in his life can change a person. Maybe...just maybe soon he could see what I see with Hans. Someone who you can just lean on and feel safe, someone you can call yours and feel happy" she replied. She was actually for this. Honestly, she wanted her brother to get a girlfriend or someone to see what it feels like to have someone you cannot live without. Family was different. She could never understand her brother's ways of thinking no matter how hard she tried.
Later, Selena asked her a question that wiped the smile off her face. A dark look came into her eye. Looking at the sky, she hoped the answer would come raining down at her and just smack her right in the face. The redhead gazed a while thinking of a reply. The slate was blank. "To be honest, I am never one to reveal about my past or myself because its no one business. I told you because I trust you. Becoming Neko is nothing worth hiding, obviosuly, but the scars are different. They are a collection, not just from that fight. I have them since I was thirteen when...I was kidnapped for four years. Again, something no one else know. That place was...dark and painful" she said. She lifted the back of her shirt showing a large 'X' formation on ehr back from that place. There were some fade scars that looked to be healed, but most of them looked to be lashed from a whip or claws. She pointed to it. "That one was from that place. My memories of it are suppressed. Though, I do remember they were 'doing medical research on me' but it gave them a reason to torture an innocent. This is something no one knows but my fiance, my father, and Concord. I want to Hikaru, but I feel like he will think of me as pathetic and useless. My heart cannot let me tell him because I am afraid what he might say. I seek his approval for everything I do" she said. LeeAnn looked back at Selena with a look of anxiety just by thinking about it. She sat down next to her. "Perhaps this is all in my head, I dont know anymore. Selena...to be honest you and Konstantin are the only people I fully trust outside of Hans. I love Hikaru, but I dont trust him with this knowledge. The council knows. What do you think I should do? I'm sorry if I sound pathetic" she said.