Raine couldn't say that he appreciated the laughter that echoed off the stone walls of the maseolum and a scowl crossed his features. His big blue eyes were puffy from crying but they narrowed slightly. But as annoyed as he seemed to be, there was a flicker of uncertainty deep in his gaze. He didn't really understand anything this Rue was saying to him; it was as though his saviour was speaking in riddles, almost. Well, maybe not riddles -- but certainly in a way that didn't at all jibe with reality.<br/><br/>Honestly, though, what<em>was</em>reality anymore?<br/><br/>Reailty was that his mother was dead. Shot by the same men that Rue had turned away with a simple word.<br/><br/>Reailty was that Raine had no other family that he knew of, not even an aunt or an uncle. Both sets of grandparents had either died before he was born or died when he was just a little boy. His mom and dad had both been only children and they carried on that tradition with him.<br/><br/>Reailty was that Rue could have been the only person in the world right now who gave a damn about what happened to him.<br/><br/>The boy sighed and raked his hand through his dark hair, such an odd color that it looked blue in certain lights and grey in others. The panic was there, still there under the thin layer of calm he'd managed to cultivate but if he gave into his panic now, he might never claw his way out from it so he turned back to Rue and squared his shoulders.<br/><br/>"You got rid of those guys with the guns, so you<em>must</em>have ... I don't know ... powers, I guess. And you found me even though there was no one else around -- but I don't have any money. I mean, not enough to pay someone who seems to do the things that you can do." That wasn't entirely true; he still had the wooden box with the rings but those were heirlooms and he wouldn't sell them for anything. And mom had some emergency cash back at the house, but that would entail getting<em>back</em>to the house. And what if there were more men's with guns waiting?<br/><br/>Oh! Shit! What if the police where there! Someone must have called them after what happened, right? Could they even go back to the house at all now!?<br/><br/>Raine suddenly felt out of his depths again and he looked up to Rue as though they would have all the answers.