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[#PI094A "AVA"]

☣ Don't Turn Away ☣

♦ Ava gave a slight, ironic smile. "I suppose that's true." She nodded. "It's not like he did it with the intention of protecting me - he only paid that much because he thought it would turn out better for him if he did - but I am still fortunate that he did."

♦ She was silent, though, as the other New Child turned towards her, continuing to speak. She knew that she was right. If you pushed everyone away, that meant you'd be pushing away any hope you had at connecting with someone who may have actually been a friend or a benefit. But shutting them out was her general behavior around humans - finding a way to give them a chance was something that acted against the instincts that she had developed. Then again, if she'd never given the boy she'd met a chance, she never even would've ended up with a name. "...Am I a good person? I wonder...I'm not sure that I am." She always did what was the best for herself, saying that she didn't care what happened to others. She hardened herself to survive.

♦ She smiled slightly again, though, at Adia's next comment. "You seem trustworthy to me..." She decided simply. "And I'm not really sure if it'd make a difference anymore, even if someone did rat me out. It never explained exactly what happened to the humans, but I think they know that I did it."

[#PI077A "Adia"]

And They Shall Reign.

- ✝ - After Ava said that, Adia turned back around and kept quiet for a while, minding her own business and not having much else to talk about. She began to play with her powers some, and held her hands close together, about 6 inches or so apart and began to generate little puffs of fire between them. With more time charged, these things could be ferocious fireballs, but only being charged for about a half second each, they could only hurt any bugs that happened to pass over the flames. She hadn’t yet figured out how to stop a fireball from charging, so she just kept on generating small flames and letting them go.

- ✝ - Soon she saw a rat crawl into her cell and she watched it as it scurried around, picking up the smallest bits of crumbs leftover from Adia’s most recent meal. “I could cook you,” she said, talking to the rat, but more just thinking aloud. She smacked her hand down on the rat’s tail and held it up in front of her face. The little creature squirmed and shook, trying to get away. “Oh it’s not like I care so much about animals or anything,” she muttered, “Just like any other non-intelligent life-form… your entirely instinct driven, and you don’t even have a mind to perceive what the world really holds… Your probably disease ridden and infected with parasites.”

- ✝ - “In fact, I bet that you never even considered that your life might be in danger until now; but I bet that you’ll come back if it means finding food. Does that mean that you’d risk your life to find food to bring back to others? Or… are you just looking for yourself? Just trying to survive? I’m interested to find out…” Adia continued whispering as she put the rodent on the ground, and pulled out a piece of bread left over from earlier, “Take it and eat it now… it’ll mean you’re really just a soulless pest. Take it and come back for more… and I’ll accept that I just may have been wrong…” The rat took the piece of bread, and immediately began eating it.

- ✝ - “This city,” Adia began expressing her thoughts in a monologue under her breath, “Is filled with people that are so ungrateful, and so evil. Yet there is some good, I can feel it. But is it enough? When God came to Abraham, and informed him of the coming destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham pleaded with God, that if there 100 righteous souls that the city could be saved. When God agreed, Abraham said that surely for 50 good people, the city wouldn’t burn. God agreed again. Abraham finally asked God that if the city had only 10 righteous men, if it would still be destroyed. God agreed. It would be unjust if just 10 good people had to suffer for the misdeeds of thousands, so I know there must be good in people, because the city stands. But in the end… Sodom had not even 5 pure souls… and those four escaped… and the city was wiped off the Earth. Does it mean that the good people should flee so God may destroy evil without destroying good?” Adia then looked up to find the rat, it should have still been eating the bread, but instead, the piece was torn in half; one half remained, and the rat had taken the other, “Or should the good… grant evil the chance of redemption?”

Forever and Ever.

[#PI094A "AVA"]

☣ Don't Turn Away ☣

♦ Things fell somewhat quiet again after that, Ava leaning back against the bars once more with a sigh that escaped from beneath her breath. She just tried to close her eyes again, despite how much her body ached to move. Every so often, there would be a small, brief light in the direction of Adia's cage that would distract her...it seemed like the other New Child had taken to practicing some form of fire spell. Forcing her eyelids down once more, she failed again at the sound of her voice. When she opened them and moved her gaze back towards her direction, she saw that the other woman was holding up one of the rats that sometimes sneaked their way into the cages. Ava absently listened to her words.

♦ As she spoke, she slowly became increasingly fascinated. She was telling a story that she'd never heard before. ...God? She'd heard the term before, but just once or twice, coming from between human lips. She wasn't really aware of what it meant, but she listened carefully to Adia's story, straining to hear it. ...Destroying evil?

♦ She remained quiet for a while, thinking over the question that left the other New Child's tongue aloud. "Does it mean that the good people should flee so God may destroy evil without destroying good? Or should the good… grant evil the chance of redemption?"

♦ "I would like to see those who are evil get what they deserve." Ava eventually decided, filling the bitterness inside her well up again. Did that make her selfish? She briefly clenched her fists, but just gave a slight sigh again, casually crossing her ams from where she sat before turning back towards Adia. "What do you think?" She asked, curious what the New Child's answer was to the question that she was pondering aloud, herself.

[#PI077A "Adia"]

And They Shall Reign.

- ✝ - Adia looked up from her monologue towards Ava, “Oh,” she said, putting a hand behind her head and smiling innocently, “I must have gotten carried away there.” She moved forwards towards the edge of her cell, leaning her arms against the cage as she resumed talking to the other new child. “I think people deserve a second chance,” she told Ava, “What I don’t like about them though, is that God, their creator gave them a second chance; but they aren’t giving us, their creations, even a first chance. Maybe we haven’t earned it though.”

- ✝ - After she said that, Adia ate the last piece of bread that the rat left her. The fact that the rat was just chewing on it didn’t faze her; it was food, and she was hungry. “So,” Adia went on to ask her, “What do you think they deserve so much?” She sat back and listened to what Ava would say back as she licked her lips, hungry as ever.

Forever and Ever.

[#PI094A "AVA"]

☣ Don't Turn Away ☣

♦ The other New Child moved closer to the bars of her cage again as he voiced her own thoughts. ...This 'God' was the creator of humans, huh? Ava was quiet for a moment. Adia thought that the humans deserved a second chance even though they hadn't granted any at all to them, their own creations. Ava couldn't quite bring herself to agree, her bitterness too strong. She grimaced slightly as Adia mentioned something about earning one. "Earning? What have we done to not deserve one? What do you think we'd have to do to 'earn' that chance?" A part of her was curious about the answer, but there was still spite in her voice as she spoke, just like there always was whenever she thought about humans.

♦ Ava blinked, somehow surprised, at the next question the other New Child asked. What did she think they deserved? She had to think about it for a few moments. A part of her wanted to see them suffer, to see them plead under their thumb just like the humans had been forcing them to do. Even if the humans were their creators, there was no reason that they had to treat them as they did. She didn't see why they deserved any more chances than they'd already had. "I'd like to see our kind gain the power that they have. I'd like to see them suffer like they made us suffer." She eventually decided aloud. "...Sometimes I wish I'd been born a human, though. I just want to get out of these bars again." She added without thinking, before regretting it. Did that, the fact that she would've rather have been born as a species she hated if it meant a better life for her, just make her sound selfish again?

[#PI077A "Adia"]

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[atrb=style, padding: 10px 10px 10px 170px; opacity: 0.8; text-align: left] - ✝ - Adia listened to Ava’s questions and to her comments. She turned back towards her, and smirked a little. “Ava,” she said to her, “I feel like some good may be coming my way. If I ever get into a position where I can mention you, and be heard, I’ll do so. But if you keep acting so hateful and malicious towards them, they would be less inclined to do any good for you. Just hold on for a while, and hope for the best. Besides, there’s not much else you could do right now except escape into the wilderness, where the monster’s we’ve hunted live.” - ✝ - After saying that, Adia turned back away and slid her back down the bars and her legs out in front of her, laying down and turning to her side to get some rest. She glanced around the cage, and sighed heavily. “I hope I’m right,” she thought to herself as she closed her eyes, “I can’t bear this nightmare too much longer myself…”

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And Restore My Soul, Leading Me According To Your Truth?

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