<span style="font-style: italic">"Sorry, I was thinking. You are a pet of Draco. Alyx was sent to Wildwood. I guess Malora somehow got him out. He was near death when I found him. It took him weeks for him to heal. He is doing much better. How do you know him?"</span><br/><br/>Reika winced as Kate called her a pet of Draco's. She hated that she was considered such a pathetic thing, even though she knew she deserved it. She had been nothing more than that really. "He was my closest companion. She murmured. "When I was first brought in, he was my first friend. He saved me more than once and took punishments meant for me, for the sake of my health. When I was told he was dead, I didn't know what to think. He was my only reason to keep living through the torment we'd gone through together."<br/><br/>Reika could tell Kate was being careful, and was thankful that the girl was kind and sweet. It was obvious that Kate liked Alyx, not that it was any of Reika's business. She knew better than to pry into that.<span style="font-style: italic">"Reika, you may speak freely with me. I won't hurt you for speaking your mind. Ask me anything. I don't want you to fear me. You have been through horrors upon horrors."</span>The girl nodded, sniffling softly as she finished her cider and food. "I'm fine, really. I have no fear of you. You have given me no reason to do so."<span style="font-style: italic">"Are you human?"</span>The last question left Reika mute for a bit. Was she human? What did she mean? "Of course. Why?" 'I am no vampire, I am still as I have always been.'