"Blue's a werewolf?" Mai asked, totally shocked. "I never would have guessed. Well then, I guess we all have our secrets..."<br/><br/>"I assume she has a way to restrain it when she transforms?" Reina asked, after she'd gotten over the shock well enough to speak. "Or at least a way not to kill the people she's close to?"<br/><br/>---------------------<br/><br/>Roy nodded and took a deep breath, then began basically his life story.<br/><br/>"Vampires are very long-lived creatures," he started. "We have the longest life spans of any species besides gods. So early on the races came to a mutual agreement that vampires would have few children and space them out by several years. So when I was little, there were no other vampires my age to play with. Then one day as I was wandering around the caverns in my home town, which was underground by the way, I heard a rustling sound, and two other kids slid down the rock wall and landed in front of me."<br/><br/>"It was pretty obvious they were werewolf kids, since the only other civilization for miles was a werewolf town. They'd fallen through a hole in the top of the cavern while they were playing "spies". Most of the adults in their town were involved in the war effort, but they were too young to officially participate. So they settled for pretending to be spies and trying to see into the vampire town through a skylight. At first they tried to put on a tough act, but after a short series of complicated events, we both came to realize that when it came down to it we were all just kids."<br/><br/>"Their names were Joseph and Mary, and we soon became the best of friends. I was unusually strong for my age and could tolerate indirect sunlight, so I would often go topside to play with them.... But vampires and werewolves age differently. They were quickly growing up and wanted to play with other werewolf kids. Because of the sunlight I couldn't go with them, so for years I was separated from my best friends. I worked for around ten years to build up an almost perfect tolerance to sunlight, and I did it. But when I went to go ask them if I could finally join in their game... while to me, that age still placed me as a young child, to them, they were already young adults. They were soon to be joining in the war effort, and said they didn't have time to play around anymore... and that their parents had forbidden them from seeing any vampires."<br/><br/>"Deep down though, I still felt that they were my best friends. They didn't leave me with harsh words, more like a regretful goodbye. But for several more years I heard nothing from them and hardly ever went to the topside. Then the war picked up again. In the middle of the day, a couple of the werewolves from the nearby town forced the ceiling for our town to collapse. Those who survived the rockfall were killed by the sunlight. But I survived, obviously."<br/><br/>"A few days later I caught word that my two best friends had passed away during the war effort. I stayed far back so as not to bother anyone, but I went to their funeral. It turned out, they'd gotten married and had two kids: Andrew and Sarah. The village elder said that she'd take them in, and they went with her and that was the last I'd heard of them for several more years."<br/><br/>"After a good amount of time had passed, I was napping in a tree when I hear a shout. "Hey you!" a voice called and I looked down to see Andrew and Sarah, several years older than they were when I'd last seen them, but still children. They asked me my name and if I was the "friend" their parents had often spoke about. I of course replied yes. They said that they'd heard a lot about me, and how I didn't support the war. They said how they wanted to get away from all the fighting that had killed their parents, so I agreed to look after them.... Then Andrew handed me a letter, and said that his father had said, "If you ever meet him, please give him this." I sat down and read the note and I admit I cried. It was a confession. The two best friends I'd had in my entire life had been solely responsible for the death of my entire family and town. They had also perished in the cave in."<br/><br/>"Anyway, after that Andrew, Sarah and I traveled together for quite a long time as a rag tag family, doing everything we could to escape the war. Eventually we accidentally walked into a battle site and they were killed. Now all I want is a way to end that stupid war. Both sides have done some terrible things, but that doesn't mean they're bad people. I'm sure if they had the opportunity to look past their nature, they could get to know each other as people, and the war could end.<span style="font-style: italic">That's</span>what I want Lee Green to do, and why."<br/><br/>Roy took another long breath after that long explanation and then looked at Blue. "So you said you had something to share as well?"