<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=72094.msg3155971#msg3155971">Quote from: Muse on 15-06-2010, 10:05:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  Kiira sniffled.  She dug a napkin out of the tea set and cleaned her face carefully before her makeup could smudge.  When that was, with great care, done, she turned too the wall and leaned her head on it.  <br/><br/>"What the hell was I thinking, telling those guys that?  Why would they care?"  She pulled back, looked at the picture, and carefully placed it in her purse.  "So maybe they do, but it's not like they had the time too listen."  <br/><br/>She closed her eyes, expecting after what just happened too be ashamed of the image of flames licking along her body as she grabbed the <em>shinai,</em> transfiguring it into ivory and steel.  <br/><br/>Instead she took a secret pride in it.  No one had too know that she'd saved Arima and the girls of her dorm all by herself long before Father and the other Orpheus agents arrived, ultimately with no more help from Arima than the inspiration of his courage and the vague idea that he'd been trying too strike the monster's horn.  <br/><br/>She didn't do it for fame or praise.  She did it for him, and for them.  As such, she didn't need too be acknowledged, and she didn't need to be absolved.  <br/><br/>Smiling contentedly, she returned too her room too put away the tea set, put her makeup back in order, and headed back out. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As you head out the hallway is empty now. Everything is quiet because is evening and mostly everybody is working or on a mission. The elevator door opened and a blue vickie passed by you and into a room closing the door behind her as she entered.