Ophidian shook his head.<span style="color: #006600">"we can ask but her past is hers to share or keep to herself."</span>he smiled and headed outside with Kitori and Coprah. he looked over at Monia as he made his way to the shore.<span style="color: #006600">"powerful Demons can vary wildly in size compared to normal ones. they also said Monia corrupted them so it's more of an adoptive situation further explaining the physical differences. why would Karrie break Monia's trust and privacy? especially in the beginning? this was supposed to be a short term arrangement, it just grew into something far deeper and more satisfying." </span><br/><br/>Sylavandra stared at Ras for a moment before shaking her head.<span style="color: #ff4d4d"> "the only person i truly love is right there and i fully intend for her to out-live me as any parent should hope."</span>she motioned to Ibara and shook her head. Ibara looked over and after a few moments she forced a smile and reached over to pat his shoulder.<span style="color: #b35900"> "you're not on your game today. i genuinely hope that you will find someone to help and support you... i wish you had been my Ras and you deserve to find happiness."</span>she patted him again and then returned her attention to her glass.<span style="color: #b35900">"mine is a prick."</span><br/><br/>Vincent frowned a little and then looked at her. "think of it like the animal feed. you gave the horse hate but not the pigs, you gave the pigs left over veggies but not the barn cat and so on. only some of the super tiny invisible animals can eat us. the ones that kill off the whole chicken coop can't eat the cat because that's just not food it can eat. the same with the wheat blight not killing your potatoes." he nodded and sat up holding his hands over the table as he spoke an incantation, arcane power glowing between his hands and a moment later there were two glasses of ice water and he gave one to Louise. "i have begun to study blood and i think i have discovered that we have our own microscopic but almost limitless army inside us. i think when we get sick we feel bad because our army is waging a defensive war against whatever sickness that is eating us on the inside and we get better when our army wins. so i guess if we die its because our army couldn't defeat the enemy before we were too heavily damaged."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>