<div class="floatright">(http://wallpaperscraft.com/image/anime_girl_redhead_smile_sweet_flower_10739_preview.jpg)</div>The redhead listened intently to the mayor's description of what was known of the beast.  It scared her more than a little, such a powerful becoming a killer, but she'd spent her childhood running away from what scared her, curling up into a ball when faced with violence.<br/><br/>She couldn't and wouldn't do it anymore.<br/><br/>Fear made her angry now, just as learning of innocnents suffering made her angry.  She had only her knives and her fire to fight it, but she wouldn't sand down.<br/><br/>Hopefully--as she'd seen before--her newfound friends wouldn't stand down either.<br/><br/>She turned briskly to the others, hair swirling around her waist.  "I think we should deal with this thing in the forest."