"How is your room any different from a slaughterhouse?" She threw back at him with an almost victirous smile. Come on! She would force him out of his little cloud of secret. There had to be a way for him to acquire meat and although food was practically strolling on his front lawn, he needed a way to skin it. Therefore, it didn't matter whether it as his room or his house. He still had to skin the meat somewhere. Elin's smile faded when he spoke of his mother, finally giving in to her probing. The death of his mother had been recent, too. Two years was practically nothing and she wondered whether he had had his time to mourn her.<br/><br/>"Surely you could have asked the villagers to help you." She replied with a little more empathy in her voice. "You could have worked in exchange for a place to sleep at and some food." This was what Elin had done for five years now, due to circumstances. Her parents were still alive, but she wasn't exactly in good terms with them, which had caused her to leave the household where the atmosphere had turned quite... explosive. "I mean, don't you ever get lonely out here? I'd go crazy in this cabin! There's no one to talk to." She looked around herself again, observing the house around her. It had probably once been a very nice home filled with warmth.<br/><br/>Elin sighed and shook her head. "I told you, I didn't mean it was delicious! Raw meat is dangerous, it's full of bacteria! I'm surprised worms haven't eaten you from the inside yet!" She clicked her tongue, as if his words had been completely absurd. Of course they weren't. "You have some explaining to do. Normal humans do not eat raw meat. You'd better start explaining soon..." Elin's hand curled into a fist at her side, with bits of frost appearing on the skin of her hand. Enough of hiding and secrecy.<br/><br/>She watched as Francis carved the smallest piece of meat she had seen in her life and began heating it. The girl clicked her tongue again, partly because of how he was teasing her and partly because she was frustrated by the sight of raw meat being cooked in front of her eyes. "Really? That's all the meat humans eat according to you? Psht, I should just do this myself..!" Elin strode forward and past him to cut a bigger piece of meat. He spoke with his mouth full as she started cutting the raw meat and she shot him a glare. "Yes! I'm quite sure. Did your mother never teach you any table manners? Come on! Where are the plates? And glasses? As a gentleman you should be already setting the table for me. Chop chop now." She flashed him an almost evil smile before putting the rest of the meat on low heat and licking her fingers that had touched the raw meat.