<div align="center"><em>Vanessa tries in sink into Hades and asks her brother a strange question.</em></div><hr/><br/>A couple of her siblings glanced back as Vanessa smacked her shin into the bench.  Seeing that it was only her and nothing had been broken or spilled, they returned their attention to their manuals and meals.  Vanessa mumbled her apologies and set her tray down.  She glanced up as she stepped cautiously over the bench to sit.<br/><em><br/>Is he looking at he?</em>she thought.<br/><br/>The dark, handsome stranger waved.<br/><em><br/>Did he... just wave at me?</em><br/><br/>Dumbly, she stood at the table, turning her head to see if anyone else near by acknowledge his distant greeting.  Seeing everyone going about their business, Vanessa swallowed down the fact that he had seen her run right into her table while staring at him.  Her tips of her ear, just visible under the tuck of thick, black hair, turned a vibrant pink.<br/><br/>Her lips tight with embarrassment, she smiled at him.  Vanessa waved as she sank down into her seat, hiding herself behind the curtain of her siblings.<br/><br/>Her ears still hot, she fished her laser from her pocket.  Vanessa popped a grape into her mouth before retwisting the loosened wire.  She tried to keep her head down as she ate and worked.  After a bit of both, she squinted and looked up at Vincent.<br/><br/>"Do you know where we could get some live animals?" she asked her eldest half-brother.  "Or maybe, like, a regular person?"