Koda had been looking around nervously. He was not used to so MANY people in one place. Not that were of the living of course. So he was very nervous. He heard Christine babbling about nothing in an attempt to help him calm down. It just wasnâ€™t working. He was just THAT nervous. Crowds of people that were alive...not his cup of tea. Still he was making due with it. He was shifting uneasily as they sat there waiting on their order. His gaze caught Serenityâ€™s but his expression was masked. He then looked away and around again. Finally focusing in only on the drink before him. Some orange juice but he didnâ€™t mind. Not what he was used to drinking but as a child he had loved drinking it. So he was glad Christine had ordered it for him. Another nice thing about this resturaunt was that they gave free refills on the orange juice. Like they would soda, water or tea.<br/><br/>He listened as Serenity ordered coffee. He was curious about that as he had heard vampires didnâ€™t drink anything that wasnâ€™t blood. Though he should have known by now that Serenity was different from other vampires. She was nicer and prettier, in his opinion, than other vampires. The spirits all liked her as well. He liked her and deep down was wondering if he was beginning to develop a crush on her. Heâ€™d never had a crush on anyone so he wasnâ€™t certain of this. As such he pushed it to the back of his mind and thought on it no further. He continued eating but soon developed a smile on his lips as he listened to the interaction between Momma Christine and Serenity. He blinked as he felt a familiar chill. His eyes glancing around and he saw a ghost following the head chef. Yelling at him that he was messing up the spices. That it was not the way to cook it. He quickly looked away and pretended he didnâ€™t see the ghost. Last thing he needed was people here calling him a freak.<br/><br/>After spotting the ghost he somewhat just zoned out. He returned to being nervous about being in a place crowded with the living. Give him a graveyard and heâ€™d be completely at ease. Stick him with a bunch of other â€œfleshiesâ€ and he was out of his element. As he was now. He finished eating but had hardly touched his cinnamon french toast that had been covered in powdered sugar. He didnâ€™t eat much when he was nervous. Something Christine had learned over the years. He just couldnâ€™t get himself to swallow the food. He was certain people were judging him because of his short but pointed elven looking ears that his hair kept somewhat revealing. He from time to time felt eyes upon him. He was much relieved when they left the resturaunt.<br/><br/>He hadnâ€™t eaten much at lunch except a bit more than he ate at breakfast. Still Christine tried to make him feel more at ease. It just...wasnâ€™t working. Between the crowds of people and going to see his parents again at the courthouse...he was feeling too nervous. His stomach was in knots. He just...couldnâ€™t relax. This took him out of his element. He was back around tons of people who didnâ€™t understand him. Who saw him as crazy. Or saw him as a freak. This didnâ€™t make him happy. In fact after breakfast he hadnâ€™t smiled any. Not a true smile. A slight smile here and there at something Christine had said. They arrived at the place they were going to be staying at. He paced and shifted around until Christine convinced him he needed to go to dinner with her.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Another significant file that was in the second packet that the man had given Serenity was records of large amounts of money being transfered into the bank account between the places sending him to â€œfixâ€ Koda. These large sums of money cooresponded with tapes of his grandmother suspecting her daughter of selling her grandson to horny bastards who just wanted sexual release. In fact there was a few half caught conversations that hinted that his mother had been selling her child to give oral and anal sex to men since he was just a child of a year in age. These happening to be another attempt at â€œfixingâ€ Koda so he would be normal. It also gave the mother large sums of money. In these records only the mother was the guilty party. Those events Koda had blocked from his mind and would remember it even under hypnosis. In fact the grandmother had found notes that indicated the sexual abuse sponsored by his mother through signatures and papers found. Along with one letter from one perverted bastard thanking the mother for a â€œgood old timeâ€ and signed by a man whose signature was near impossible to read. There was other things that would show the verbal and mental abuse Koda was put through in the boxes Serenity had been given.</span><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><br/><br/>Koda had gone to dinner with Christine yet again had not eaten very much. In fact he had ordered of the kid menu and still only ate about half the food on his plate. He remembered the physical abuse but had never told anyone about it. Nobody ever helped him or believed him. As a child he had been afraid to talk about it yet had told Christine only that they liked to hurt him. Even though he didnâ€™t specify they hurt him with words and physical abuse. Abused him verbally and mentally with words. The tapes had recorded accounts of the verbal and mental abuse yet on a couple had recorded the physical abuse as a resounding smack or crunch of bone. These cooresponding with the hospital records and x-rays that Serenity had in the one of four boxes she had chosen to take. Seeing the box he too was curious as to its contents. Whatever it is must be important and Serenity looked very upset. He didnâ€™t say anything else to anyone. â€œWhy you look so upset?â€ He said. Truly speaking for the first time since they left the castle