Her hand simply swirled the last drop of the wine in her glass in a rather circular motion, swooshing it. The wine to her was rather  bitter  more than sweet, truly she wasn't a wine fan, but she tended to deal with the choice for her dear beloved friend. Her eyes of golden blaze were shinier than usual as it must be noon. Her eyes are always different depending on the time. Her glossed pink lips felt dry, yet her drink was supposedly making them not so moist, strange. Slowly she licked her lips with her hot tongue by the tip of it and then stabbed her food with her fork gently. Her eyes lowered to look at her food and smiled warmly. ''What point does that make? Silly 'I told you so's'. We learn from experience I suppose.'' she finished speaking before shoving a small piece of chicken within her mouth.

She chewed a couple of times and swallowed it. Some could say she ate meat like a wolf, but truly she can't help it. She would have to really mentally put out to be able to chew several times and blah blah blah, but she felt like it's a waste. If people ate as such, good for them, but if not then cool. Everyone was different, including her friend. It only took two chews to learn that the chicken was dry, over seasoned and left in the oven took long or they just didn't add water to the pan while cooking the thing. She used her obvious senses to listen to her friend speak about how she had enough fashion, making Arisa giggle a beautiful school girl. ''I suppose so. Typical dramatic models.'' she responded back calmly and sweetly like she always is. She tried to speak properly now as perhaps a way to get rid of her own accent.

310/2000

Her eyes looked and gazed at her friend while eating her food politely. Sure she was eating like a wolf, but she didn't like being in a mess. When she ate things like ribs, she made sure she had some napkins to wipe her face. She wasn't a dirty slob. Her soft fingers looped over the base of her silverware with her middle finger as she ate a coupe of more bites of this horrid chicken. Slowly her body leaned over the table, whispering ''Remind me to never get this chicken here.'' she sat down and let go of her silverware to then pick up her wine glass. Her pointing finger wrapped around the base of it while her pinky was out, drinking. The flavor was still bitter and she knew it was never going to change, just like herself perhaps.

There was a part of her own being that she wished she could just change, but she wasn't going to say that, no, not out loud anyways. She decided to put down her drink and leans against the chair she was sitting on. A man or waiter appeared, ''How is everything?'' he asked. This brought up a real question in her own mind, 'How was everything?... To her..' she wondered in a different way. Her eyes cornered with a beautiful smile from her lips... ''Well.. your chicken is terrible and dry. Tell the cook he needs to add water while he cooks chicken next time and not to over-due the seasoning.'' she spoke and then looked at her, Alisa, calmly as the waiter shook his head. ''I will miss, thank you.'' he spoke, bowed his head and went off if Alisa didn't need anything. After that she remembered that Alisa brought up that she didn't talk about her homeland.... 'home.. Is that what Sin really is?... To me?' she wondered and looked at her. ''Well...'' she was starting as if it was going to be a story.

330

640/2000

She looked at her friend and then lowered her gaze towards the table. Her mind, memory and soul could still remember most of the town she lived in. It was as if it was months ago when she was a little girl. ''well... before the tragic happened -- as far as I know anyways... The trees were filled with pink and white flowers, the side walks were always so neat...tidy and organized with no cracks or flaws. When there were flaws in their walkways, they'd be fixed immediately. Women walked in fancy silk clothing if you were anything but poor and the poor -- well... there never were any. People helped each other out there and all children were allowed to play with each other. The grass was so green, you could never see a day where it wasn't fresh green. Truly, till one certain day that is.'' she started and began her story with a friend at the end. She was telling the story in a calm manner in which she held great pain. ''The town I lived in had hills, lots of hills as we lived on the slope of the mountain. We had beautiful creatures, nature and as to be believed... people. Most countries have their dark secret... Sin's secret? ... Well... I doubt you wanna hear more of my past.'' she finished and then took a drink of a different type of wine. This one tasted decent, better than the last, but it tasted more plain than sweet. She licked her lips as she grabbed a tooth pick, stabbed a piece of fruit with it and inserted the fruit in her mouth. Her teeth chewed, her tongue savored the sweet strawberry taste as the juice and liquid was devoured. She wondered if she was ever going to go back to The Country of Sin. There were a lot of things she needed to find out and truly she felt like the only way to find out was to travel back there, rather or not she would find anything was in question. Finally, she gazed at her friend's ruby eyes as her back leaned against the back of the chair, supporting her back of course.

370

1010/2000

She enjoyed the strawberry that she had in her mouth. It was sweet, cold and fruit had its own mystery, such as a person she had in mind. A small part of her heart still felt pain and had no closure. She needed this closure so when was she going to get it? Yawning softly she looked at her dear friend as she complimented the Country of Sin, calling it beautiful. It was indeed beautiful, but beautiful things/people/everything was dangerous or could be. Her free hand was brought up and twirled her long bangs behind her ear lobe and then saw a boy or man appear with some letter. She listened to him speak about how it was supposedly important and then heard the comment Alisa brought forth. Slowly Arisa received the letter and opened it gently to not tare it up.

''Dear ladies, I have an important task for you two to do for me. It's not that very easy nor safe, but there is an award to receive for doing so. There is a new virus that is uknown, but those who are affected by it becomes enraged and will attack anything in sight. It's a mystery and I would obviously love to study this. Beware as it is dangerous to civilians... It doesn't affect them, human beings, but there are and have been some reports of nearby wildlife that seem to be and get affected making them well... violent and otherwise a danger to all those who can't even defend themselves, making it difficult to deal with otherwise. Go outside of Baska and straight towards through some paths and there you will see a lake that runs down the mountains. I have heard there are boars there specifically that are hard to deal with. I advice for you girls to be careful. Find them and sedate one of them at most/least. I would like to study them.

Sincerely, Doctor''

She pretty much read it out loud, loud enough for her friend to hear it. She leaned more back and yawned. ''I guess it's time to hunt. I hate killing animals, but I guess it's to research this virus. I wouldn't be able to handle the thought of people killing so many animals and vise versa... You know?'' she spoke to Alisa as her heart pained. She loved animals dearly and with that, she scooted out of her chair and got up to get ready.

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1425/1000

She continued to eat her strawberries while sitting with her friend, discussing now about this damn mission. Her eyes never left the sight of her friend's ruby orbs. She wondered on exactly what the procedure will be once they get the animal. Was he going to needle it to death or perhaps kill it anyways?! What as the point on even getting the animal without harming it if she could give it a quick death? She knew that her friend was going to now try not to kill it because of what she said. 'She doesn't seem like most people...' spoke one of them in her head as Arisa gazed at her. 'Usually people will do whatever the hell it pleases.' it spoke again. She agreed with the voice upon whoever was speaking.

A small smile was on her own pretty full lips that were glossed in light pink, like roses. Her skin was lit up like stars in the night complimenting the moons face. ''Alright, shall we go then?~'' she teased and smiled motherly of course. If agreed, she got up and started to walk out after paying for her own meal. Her hand was on her stomach, ''Damn I feel nicely full though...'' she spoke and chuckled for a bit. Her head cocked towards Alisa and gazed at her. She was quite pretty, but alas she had no interest in her unlike many men would, perhaps women as well. Her head turned to look straight as they entered the forest and went through a path. She listened to her friend and remembered what she spoke of. "Well, don't feel too bad, animals kill each other all the time, people kill each other all the time. Death is simply a natural part of the circle of life, so long as you're not killing for sport. If you respect nature, you simply won't kill more than what you need to survive." That was most of it, right? It was true though, animals do kill each other, but not out of sport. Animals respect each other more than humans did. Animals killed out of territorial reason, defensive or for food. Humans kill because they want to and just that simple reason which obviously isn't even a real reason. She looked at Alisa already take action as they heard the squealing of the beast. Her eyes looked at it with sorrow, but knew this was for the best. She wanted to see what Alisa was going to do at first, but seeing that she only tried to knock it out and fight their friends as well doing the same thing, she was going to finish it. 'Forgive me...' she thought as she coldly looked at the animals from her stance. Her hands clenched into fists as she dashed forward towards the beast Alisa tried to knock out and fist punched it into its skull, knocking it out senseless. Once they saw one of their own knocked out, they scattered. ''It is better to kill it quickly than give it to someone to experiment on, killing it slowly and torturing it....I honestly hate this mission...'' she frowned, picked it up in her long arms and walked with her friend back to the doctors. The beast was quite heavy and honestly so was her heart. This was terrible... everything about this was, but there was nothing she could do. After that they got their reward and left.

580

2010/1000

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