<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/02/Hayden_hawkens_12.jpg)</div>Tears suddenly fell, caught off guard by James' sudden surprise and hearing his whisper.  It was one of the unfortunate parts of not being able to communicate through their totem, exponentially shown as such when the vampire actually heard them.  She couldn't fault him, though; it wasn't like she was all that fantastic in social situations.<br/><br/>Still, this was falling apart very quickly.  She was more than capable of shifting her body (or so she thought), but she didn't want to right now.  All this could be handled decently.  "These are my friends," she said.  "I'm not good with people and they wanted to make sure I didn't get hurt."<br/><br/>Tears wasn't angry so much as sad.  She had a number of questions which would have best been served in private, likely after the beautiful feelings that the vampire was giving her.  Anyone who could do things like that with her hands wouldn't need drugs to feel good, and anyone who had been blessed by the Sun wouldn't be corrupted.<br/><br/>In the end, with a gentle sigh, she stood.  "I guess we should just go," she said.  "You're upset, they're upset, and people aren't going to get along.  I don't want a fight to start or anything like that."<br/><br/>Tears idly wondered how long the memory of having to leave this beautiful woman thanks to the lack of a properly communicative totem would last.