<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">“Well Nimah,” Miko quietly said. “We are ALL outcast and you know what that means? It means that down here, we are no longer outcast.”<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Those words came like rain after a too long dry season that spreads seeds of death around. Now her head lifted and turned a little more towards her. That tiny shy smile was again on her strange yet noble face and her grasp tightened slightly around the small and slim hands.<br/>"All right..."<br/>That was all she said: 'all right'.<br/>And for the very first time since she fell into this dense darkness panic was about to leave her, at least for a while.<br/>Because of her voice. Because of<em>this</em>voice.<em>Her</em>voice.<br/>She liked it. And Nimah's mind described Miko as a beautiful woman. She didn't have the faintest idea about who this Alten was -also her ability to focus on things was quite narrowed now, existing in constant and worst fears-, but about this she was sure. For her Miko was beautiful and this knowledge cheered her up a bit. She even felt her steps more secure somewhat because she was guided by her.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Miko stepped in with the two and helped Alten to a bed and Nimah to a chair. The three men left and closed the door.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Once she was settled into that chair, she stayed there like she was a heavy stone or a piece of wood. No moves, no moves at all. Nimah was sitting exactly in the same position as the one Miko sat her. Her gaze was fixed ahead on something that wasn't there for her and no words left her mouth, while she blinked very, very rarely. And the foundling was like she didn't hear any of the information at all<br/>- no reply, not a single reaction, no pulsation of life around her - she became calmed as a statue...<br/>