<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 was more than surprised that someone really thanked her for what she had done. As if it was something special. The only thing she had done was to tell those folks that she had a doctor in her hexapod. She sat down on the pile next to Karra, as it seemed nicer to talk with her on the same level and because the girl looked exhausted.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Oh, I did nothing to save you. If it wouldn't have been because of me, you wouldn't have gotten into that state firsthand. I am sorry that I forced you folks out, although honestly I have no idea, why you did come to save me. From that guy next door I learned that you aren't from this place. So you had no reason to risk your life to save me. I should mean nothing to you..."</span><br/><br/>She frowned and looked really puzzled, hoping that someone would finally tell her what this all was above. She didn't really understand from that talk she had listened too, where those guys were coming from. But not from Ovia, that was for sure. Nevertheless so far those guys seemed to be nice. Nothing to compare how they would treat them. She really felt a little bit bad about that prospect.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Kira is an amazing doctor, are you and Kira close friends?"</span><br/><br/>Carine blushed a little and looked embarrassed. She took her time to think over that question, but finally she gave an answer. An astonishingly open and honest answer, as she admitted to herself.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I guess she is a good doctor. Her mother has become the head surgeon at a young age and Kira has been trained very early to follow her steps. I know not so much about her work actually, she is a Raffii which means she lives not with us. But...well, I sneak out sometimes and visit her secretly. She develops wonderful drugs and I like to take them. Drugs for all kind of things, but I especially like those sex drugs she gives me. They make me doing things, I would never even have considered in a normal situation. I had some tight upbringing and my mother is... well, let's say after Freya's hunting accident she would prefer to lock me into my room to keep me safe."</span><br/><br/>Her face had clouded some, while she spoke of her mother. But the injured girl, Karra, listened to her and she seemed not bored at all. It felt good to speak to someone who actually listened to her without shouting at her like her mother did or hating her like the servants did.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"You know, I had military training when I turned fifteen and I believed that I would be allowed to actually be in the military. But once I should leave the city and go on a patrol, my mother pushed her weight in and made the commanders to keep me inside the city. It was really frustrating and I started to rebel, to treat the servants bad, to envy Freya for her possibilities and to take drugs. So when Kira came to me and told me that my mother had agreed for us two rescuing the princess, I was absolutely happy. I took a hexapod and although Kira puked nearly all the way,..." Carine grinned thinking of the green face of her lover. "...we managed it to get here. But then the forest got too dense to move the hexapod and I had to go for Freya on foot. I nearly pissed my pants out there whenever there was a noise in the forest. I have never been out in the jungle before and then all alone. I was sure I would die, when the animal appeared in front of me...luckily you folks came along. I know that I owe you my life. So I should thank you, not you should thank me."</span><br/><br/>When Carine realised that she actually had thanked someone and wasn't taking it for granted, she blushed again. Somehow being away from her mother changed her behaviour. She felt it, how she got more relaxed, more friendly, more natural. Some totally different person. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Karra, I know it sounds stupid, as that guy over there had explained it to me, but I didn't understand it. Where do you come from? You are not from Ovia and your weapons are strange. But you are not hostile, like all the folks her are. So I am pretty confused..."</span></div>