Xerxes listened intently to when Izaya replied, telling her even more than she had asked of him. His back story, everything that had happened. She was a little surprised of this, but of course it didn't show on her face. Even if she had wanted to, the emotion wouldn't appear, it was almost as if the ability had been wiped away, along with what little human was in her blood stream. Sometimes Xerxes was glad that she couldn't show emotion, or even speak with emotion, but at other times, she wished that she still had that mundane ability...it wasn't important, but at the same time, it was very important.<br/><br/>Staring in to the fire, she thinks. Was it true that she had given him purpose, just by him seeing her slaughter those scientists? Was it really that simple of a task to accomplish? And the other thing...free the others...She had only thought of herself when she had escaped, not thinking of anyone else. Did that make her selfish? She knew that several of the other test subjects, the ones that were stable enough to interact with others like them, hated her, because of how advanced she was, and that, for the most part, she was treated, if only by a 1% margin, better than them. That and they knew she was superior in her power and abilities, that she was, in short, higher up on the food chain. She was the peak of that triangular mountain, and the fact pissed them off.<br/><br/>"You say that we can free the others. But what if they don't accept? Do you realize that some of them...some of those others like us belong where they are at. They aren't stable. They might try to kill us even. Why not just leave them alone...All I wanted was to be free, myself...to be alone. To live how I wanted to. Yes, it is tragic what is happening to them...but I don't want to go back. I've had several of my own kind, well, in lab status at least we are alike, try to kill me? Why would I want to save them, if that is going to happen? Better them following in my footsteps and breaking free, killing scientists, than me risking my neck to save ungrateful beings like them."<br/><br/>Xerxes was not trying to be cruel in the least. This was simply her way of logical thinking, her life set as priority and the maximum thing to keep first. Anything else was set last, and wasn't as important. If she was alive, that was good. And she would do whatever she could to keep it that way. However she could.  And if that meant sacrificing the others of the lab, then so be it. Turning her face, she looks away from Izaya, hopefully what he said in response to her near refusal to help the other detainees of the lab escape wasn't too bad, or harsh.