<span style="color: #0000FF">Mark growls as Dagger hissed at him. "Might be better than being stuck on a mission with people who hate me. Who hate me worse than people I have actually DONE stuff to." he says sharply. Fists balled at his side. He ignored him and gave him a like...your covered in blood. Telling a ten year old to take a bath when one of the people she looks up to won't take a bath....swell. He scowls at Dagger. "You wouldn't know! You were psychotic while they were babbling on about things!" he yells back. Scowling again as his eyes glowed a golden hue versus yellow or red. That quickly faded as he was knocked over with the large tree branch. He pushed it off of him. "I don't like your attitude either." He says.<br/><br/>Holding his gut yet has no venom in his words. He looked at Dagger. He treated him like an equal. Whether or not Dagger meant to or realized it...he just treated him like an equal. "If you treat me like you just did...as an equal...I would give you respect." he says in a slightly respectful tone. Looking at him. "Get along?" he echoes. Looking at Dagger like this was some curious and interesting concept. Standing up slowly. Looking at him and frowns. "If you treat me like an equal I will treat you with respect." He says after a very LONG pause of silence. "I don't believe in respecting my elders when all the elders I know want to rip me apart for some reason or other." He says softly. He growled a bit more at himself than Dagger. "The leader kept telling his men that the boss wants the half breed. They wanted to kill the rest of you but for some reason he kept telling them to keep me alive." he says slowly.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FF0000">Relina had been ignoring Mark for the most part. The bath was the most evil thing ever invented. At least in her mind it was. She was pale from seeing the scars she caused. It hadn't been on purpose. She wasn't very human still but felt guilty and horrible about it. She shuddered as the water poured down over her head. A soft whimper escaping her lips. Closing her eyes and shivering violently. She was dried off with the towel and still trembling. She looks at Dagger. Biting her lower lip. "Dagger...if you dont take a bath than other vampires will start attacking again. You will be like a beacon and draw their attacks to you. You are a cool vampire and I don't want people attacking you. You are very strong but you could get hurt. I don't want to see my friend hurt." she says softly.<br/><br/>Shivering hard. Her eyes closing again. "I can tell you guys why I don't like to take a bath...a full bath. I can tell you why I don't like to get totally wet." She says. Her voice trembling. Not even Aaron knew what she was about to say. "They would make me take baths...put me in water and keep me under. I am different they said. Different and needed studying they said. They said I was stronger than humans yet not a vampire. Strengthened attributes. Larger lung capacity. They said it needed to be studied. They would put me in baths. Hold me under in a tub. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Fifteen minutes. They would do it in different time periods...to see how long I could be under water without breathing. See just what she can do they said. See just how long she can go without passing out they said. So they did it. Put me in tanks and said swim little fishie swim. They put a lid over the tank so I could not get out. Only brought me out when I passed out cold. Twenty... thirty... I lost count of how long they did that. They would laugh like it was a game."<br/><br/>She was shaking hard. "Water would pour down over my head. Drop in like a waterfall starting in slow trickles. They would speak outside the room they had me in. Tell me to just behave. To not freak out. I wasn't that old but they said it was for science. Be a good little girl and show us what you can do. I started losing touch with them. I could understand them but could never protest. I didn't know how. I never learned to talk. They would just experiment more if I did. See what my lungs could do. See how long I could drown before I stopped breathing. Bring me to life than start all over again." Tears were trailing down her cheeks. "Those are terrible nightmares. They played with water and used me as the toy..."</span>