<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #BFBFFF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Lady Melina Del'Castellorosso</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">'The Angel of Riace'</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/9960c406-7aeb-4e5b-9174-36e83dbe1238_zpscc943042.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Melina could see that the entire day had left its traces on Amena. She was worn down and not the most emotional stable. If the Sir Robert's daughter would have any idea what was to come, she would be possibly a wreck. Well she would be more than a wreck soon anyway. Melina admittedly felt a little bit bad because of Yakari, she really liked the gentle, friendly, young noble and she knew that her own actions were probably destroying him. But her own fate was linked to the fate of Amena and she had no intention to go back to Riace and to become raped by the their new neighbours, the Wild Folks. She could well imagine that they first raped her and then sold her some slavers. With her looks it was very likely. Or they even kept her for themselves. No, she had to find a home on the mainlands and Sir Robert was providing it. Maybe one day she would be able to repent for what she had done to Amena and Yakari, but she doubted it.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Why would Hagener want to kill me?"</span><br/><br/>Melina sighed, that was another story she couldn't tell Amena. It was for Sir Robert's ears only. But she decided to cling close to the truth.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I can't tell you all the story, Amena. But as it looks your family and his family have some long feud and he believes that you are some devil who has bewitched Sir Yakari to kill him. It was the reason why he wanted to kill Yakari in the arena and I am keeping an eye on him now, until he stops believing this shit."<br/></span><br/>Melina knew that she would have to keep indeed a close on Sir Hagener until Robert was finished with him. Amena was some red cloth for the Loon and he may ruin all her plans by killing her off.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"I am sorry if I seem hesitant to trust you, Lady Melina...it has been a trying day,"</span><br/><br/>Melina gave a warm chuckle. It was the first really natural sound she had given and it was a reminiscence to the young girl she had once been, before he life went down the gutter - admittedly by her own actions. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"It would be a bit too much to ask for your trust. Not after those rumors have spread. I can only apologize for them, but I hope you believe me that I have no reason to spread such rumors. There would be nothing I could gain by them. Let me help Sir Yakari, I will give you message what I have achieved."</span><br/><br/>She gave the girl a squeeze on her arm, before letting her walk to the tournament area. It was a pity, she could have liked the red-haired girl, but...she was on a mission to save her own ass. Melina returned to a still frightened Sir Hagener.</div>