''Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.''<br/><br/>She droned the sentence up, almost as if she had taken it up on her task to remind its every word, every syllable in the monotones tone she talked it. Razor could not see it, but she furiously looked into his way, huffing her breath as if she if had to keep her anger in. Her hands were fumbling softly underneath the tight collar around her neck, slowly taking a long chain of perfectly rounded beads of her rosary. Counting the wooden spheres on her necklace had always calmed her down, thinking of the gentle soothing words of the prayers she had to do in the right order. Not that she was practising them now, too intent to listening to the intriguing answers of the Ramen.<br/><br/>She then continued to look at the deliciously grilling bacon and flanks of hog on the hot stones. She even murmured a soft prayer to warm the stones a little bit more, fearing they might cool down to quickly in the night sky. She had no idea why she was helping the Ramen to eat this godforbidden meal, but she did. Nevertheless it did not make her response to the qeustion why eating animals wasn't wrong.<br/><br/>''The human interest in eating meat is merely trivial because human beings don't need to eat meat in order to live. The animals and beasts interest in staying alive in order to eat meat is a more basic need. They keep the balance in nature, the wolf eats the rabbit, the rabbit eats the roots, and the roots grow of the humus the worms make of the corpse of a dying and aged wolf. This keeps the balance in nature alive. Us humans eating animals, it disrupts this balance, we have interfered to much in the past already..''<br/><br/>Eponine grimaced at the sound of being called a bunny, and wanted to response to it. But she kept it to herself, listening to another answer of her questions, the one she had been wondering for some time now. His age.<br/><br/>''So you are considered young around the age of 40? You must think I'm a sibling compared to your kind then! I wonder how fast you grew as a child, it must have been awful to be as small as a 9yearold at the age of 18... Is that also the reason why you needed those spells? I'll remember it, next time we need to run to make sure I'll help you with it, if you want.''<br/><br/>She then realised that she wasn't going to be with him for much longer, hoping that there would be some survivors in the village. If not, she would probably try and get to one of the village past the tropical forests, but she had no clue how to get through it, or which way to go. Maybe if she found a map or a book that could help her in the remains..<br/><br/>''If we get back tomorrow to the village, can we go to the library? I want to see if there are any books left untouched by the fire, perhaps there is something useful for me to be able to travel to the other villages on my own. That is if there aren't any survivors. I doubt there will, but hope is always good you know. And if we can find a book about travelling by the course of stars, or a map, or perhaps..''<br/><br/>Eponine had been rattling on about books or what else more before she heard the hissed quietly spoken words of Razor.<br/><i><br/>
"Eponine...hide...now..." </i><br/><br/>He wasn't using any nicknames, nor did he sound like he was making a joke. Without any further words said, she slunk back further into the cave, and hid behind a reasonable big stone, covering herself in the large crimson red mantle that made her invisible to the naked eye in the sheer darkness of the shadows of the cavern. Holding her rosary beads tight against her chest, she controlled her breathing, listening intently to the sound of flapping wings of the fireflies and the simmering of the hog. She did not know what it was that Razor made her tell her to hide, but she wasn't going to qeustion it either.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>