<span style="color: #FF0000"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Carine Devonhard</span><br/>Carrie</div></span><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/6814106f-fc04-471d-9875-aea3475cd61a_zpsdb498126.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Carine just had to look at this poor girl trying to vomit, see the pain she was going through and she felt extreme pity for her. She had come to rescue her and now she suffered, while Carine not even had a scar. Instinctively her fingers brushed the tears from her cheeks, tenderly, merely touching the skin of Karra. Carine had no idea what to make out of this. Those people were foreigners as they admitted, but Getalia was no place for foreigners. They had to leave again, if they wanted to survive.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"You have to leave, have to return to your place. There is a rescue party on its way, a real one, not like me and Kira, a lot of soldiers, hexapods, tripods, a whole squad. They won't listen to you. Nobody her listens to anybody. You saved my life and I feel already bad enough having to watch you suffering because of that, but if I have to see you in the Arena for that...no, leave. Take you blain or however this thing her is called and return to the place you did come from. I won't tell anybody that you have been here, and I guess I can convince Freya and Kira to forget about it too. Please..."</span><br/><br/>Carine looked really worried. She had been long enough in the military to know what the officers would do with those people here. Carine knew that it was the official policy, that she couldn't change it, but she knew too that she was still alive because of those people. Not because of her training or luck, only because those people had rushed out of safety to get her. She had to make sure that they could return safe to their place. <br/><br/>When Karra got another pain attacked and the tears trickled from her eyes, Carine looked frightened at Tom and Tania.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Can't you help her? Take those pains from her? Kira surely has some drugs to help her. I will ask her..."</span><br/><br/>She sprang to her feet, but before she could even make one step Tom blocked her way. He put his hands on her arms and held her there. His eyes were worried but they were hard too.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Carrie, Karra is a soldier, she is tough. We all hate to see her suffer, she probably wishes she could be dead instead going through those pains,..." he shot Karra a quick glance, but then his eyes were on hers again. "...but she will make it. I am thankful that Kira has helped her, but we all don't trust Kira. There is something wrong with Freya and it looks like Kira and her mother had the fingers in it. That is the reason why Kira was allowed to go with you for Freya, it is the reason why you were allowed outside as Freya's cousine. Kira's only job is to cover what they have done to her. Freya knows it and we know it. I coaxed Kira into helping Karra, by promising her that Freya won't kill her. But I will not allow Kira to use one single drug on Freya or on my people. You understand?"</span><br/><br/>Carine did not really understand. Why should Freya kill Kira, why should Kira not work with her drugs here? And what was that with Freya?<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"What do you mean with something is wrong with Freya?"</span><br/><br/>The man looked long at her and then finally he pressed her gently down on this pile and he sat down too opposite of her. She had no idea what to make out of this all.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Before I tell you what they have done to Freya, I want to answer yourself a question. You are Freya's cousine, I guess you had been close to her in your youth, right?"</span> She nodded. <span style="color: #80FF00">"If you look back on Freya before her hunting accident and afterwards. Would you say that Freya was more warm-hearted, open, friendly, more interested in changes she wanted to make before she got that accident? And wasn't she some cold, heartless bitch after her accident?"</span><br/><br/>Carine didn't need to think one second over this question. She had been very close to Freya up to the accident and not at all afterwards. Not because she didn't wanted to be close with Freya, but because Freya wasn't the same anymore. She was some other person, but it was because of that near-death experience she suffered after the accident, wasn't it? Her eyes suddenly grew large, when she realised that maybe someone had replaced Freya.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"The girl in the next room? The one, you call Freya? Is she human?"</span></div>