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                     Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:45 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "Y...you know, fear isn't the only thing that makes a heart race like that. And I don't particularly care much for being afraid."         
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                     Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:03 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "I would never hurt you, Minan Ainaak.  But if you do not fear me, what does make your heart pound so?"         
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                     Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:01 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "I... I don't know," she stuttered, having trouble looking at him. "You make me unconformable."         
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                     Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:11 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "Because I am not like you?"         
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                     Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:19 pm 
 
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                     Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:40 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            He was interested now, "Please, go on."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:38 am 
 
 
                        
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			            "Well you are!" she protested, suddenly feeling the need to defend herself. "You say things that don't make sense and you do things that make me uncomfortable and... and...." she was running out of arguments.          
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:30 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Zakiel frowned, "You are not like me, but I do not call you weird.  You cannot shift or move so quickly, nor call down the lightning or melt into the breeze.  Perhaps to me, what you are is strange and bizarre."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:55 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "There's nothing wrong with that," she shrugged. "We are different."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:00 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "But you just said that I was weird."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:08 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "You are," she agreed. "You're different and you're weird. I don't know what to make of you."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:09 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "Do I need to be labeled so quickly?  You have much time to get to know me before I require a label."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:11 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "You labeled me when we first met."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:14 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "It is not a label, but a fact, one that is of great importance in my world."         
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                     Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:24 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            "Well, it sounded like a label to me."         
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