<div class="floatleft">(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/monstergirlencyclopedia/images/2/21/Hellhound_cloth.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/339?cb=20150222064724)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 16pt;">RENOA</span><br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Meeting place<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Everyone, Tabitha, Suzume, Riku, Torikai<br/><hr/><br/>Renoa had been ready to pounce the harpy and tear her a new one. Literally and figuratively. But Riku had stepped between them, literally throwing himself in harms way to protect Torikai. Seeing him do that, and hearing his pleading words, how desperate he was to not lose her...it wounded the hellhound far deeper than the harpy's talons ever could.<br/><br/>It forced her to think about the night she had been taken from Miyako. There were no such protests, no demands that she be allowed to stay. Was she actually glad to have her gone? Suddenly that seething anger and eagerness to fight was gone. Replaced with a crushing sense of loneliness and rejection. She looked around the room and saw everyone looking at her and the scene that she and Torikai was causing. She saw monsters trying to shield their hosts from the imminent violence, and humans similarly trying to stop their monsters from joining the fray. Everyone had someone...except her.<br/><br/>She was alone in this crowded room, noone caring if she were hurt or what punishment might befall her.  She had no one. She felt tears welling up in her eyes at the realization. Her body trembling as she suddenly felt like she couldn't breathe. The proud and mighty warrior brought down by a simple show of affection. She would have laughed had she been witness to such a thing...but she wasn't witnessing it, and there was noting funny about what she was feeling in that moment.<br/><br/>She took a shuddering breath, feeling like she wanted to scream, but all that came out was a meek little whimper. She spun on her heels and rushed from the room, not wanting to give the harpy the satisfaction of seeing her cry. She went into the same side room that Akira had pulled her into earlier.<br/><br/>She leaned her back against the wall as her tears began to fall, feeling hot against her cheeks. She sank down to the floor trembling as sobs began to escape. She hugged her knees against her chest as she continued to cry, unable to reign in her emotions, feeling unloved and unwanted. Never in her life had she felt like this...so raw and vulnerable.<br/><br/>She thought of home and family. Of the bridges she had burned to come here. Even if she did go back, her father would not welcome her. Not after the things she had said to him. Not after the way she humiliated him in front of the others. His parting words echoed in her mind.<br/><br/>"You wish to be human so badly? Then go! Be with humans! May they give you a home and a family, because you no longer have one here!"<br/><br/>The tears kept flowing, there was nothing she could do to stop them. There was nothing she could do to hold back the tide of emotions washing over her. Why had she come here? Why had she thought things would be any better away from the forests? She didn't belong here, but had no home to go back to. She was trapped in some terrible limbo and could not find a way back.