<span style="color: #FF0000">Mesaraih thought it rather curious that the girl didn't seem to be in the least bit intimidated by him. She mentioned something about killing deer, and the way she said him struck him as odd. He began to get the sensation that this was no ordinary human huntress.<br/><br/>"You have the time, eh? Funny, it almost sounds like you're actually curious about my story." He gave her a small smile, almost playful. <br/><br/>"These powers aren't natural. They're the product of being a lab rat for human scientists. I've always found it both fascinating and infuriating how they're convinced their experimentation with life can overcome nature, but by now I just find it funny, particularly when I look at where it's gotten them: a role as prey for all the creatures they refused to believe in all those years ago. But anyway, my brothers and I were captured, because one of us thought we could help these scientists. They had been performing unethical experiments in a hidden laboratory on other humans. They were trying to recreate life in the crudest of ways. For the benefit of everyone on the planet, they had to be stopped. Turns out, they were some of the few who believed in our existence. They knew someone would try to stop them, and we were their real prey. They shut the lab down so tightly that even they themselves would never be able to escape. They electrocuted us, put us into filthy tanks whose smell I still can't wipe from my mind. And there, we sat for well over two hundred years, in a bath of chemicals that were meant to transform us. I'm the only one who retained my shape and survived. My other brothers, they... they turned into grotesque creatures, and went mad. The scientists had probably expected this to happen sooner, because they were dead before any of us were changed. I was able to gather enough strength, and, with the flames they injected inside me, I was able to break free from the tank. I broke my brothers out, but every single one of them attacked me in a blind rage. I had to kill them all. One of them turned into a sea monster that couldn't even survive without water, so he died by himself once I let him out..."<br/><br/>Mesaraih was staring up at the light filtering through the trees, nearly losing himself in the sour memories.<br/><br/>"Ever since, I've been stuck with this fire inside me. I've learned to control and harness it pretty well by now. I'm also waiting for the day when I turn into a blind monster myself. Sometimes I can sense something inside me stirring."<br/><br/>He turned back to face the girl. "Well, now you know," he said to her. "Hope you enjoyed the story. Seeing as you know so much about me, however, I feel it's only appropriate for me to ask your name, and to tell me a bit about yourself."</span>