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Maria had returned to her world after gaining some essence from the one she referred to as her charge. She didn't protect, but rather dealt pain and suffering. He escapade she had just finished was a success, a minuscule win, but a success none the less.

She walked on an empty foggy plain. There was nothing to be seen. The ground was hard, the area was flat. Nothing but a dense fog that thinned the higher it got. Below Maria's waist nothing could be seen, as the fog was thicker towards the ground.

It was as if she was a Victorian queen haunting her kingdom's courtyard on a cold night. She walked in her elegant gown through the fog, silent. Expressionless. She was thinking. Thinking about that man that she had seen earlier. No that poor excuse for a bard. He annoyed her, but somthing about him was captivating. Maybe next time they meet they could be on different terms. Perhaps she flirted in a morbid fashion. Or maybe it was just she really did despise him. She was confused, but she knew she didn't want to have another encounter. She enjoyed her solitude.

Maria had been walking, slowly and silently, only stopping when the hat had landed in front of her. She looked down to it and took a moment to place it. It didn't take her long, but she soon remembered who it belonged to. It was the nameless man she had come in contact with earlier.

If she were still human, she would probably just bend down and pick the hat up, but her mortality died as did her sense of sympathy. Now she was a careless tyrant. She lived only to cause pain and blood shed. She enjoyed it.

With a firm stomp, she planted her heeled foot on top of the hat, her foot flattening it. She then lifted her head, she had a glaring grimace slapped on her face, as he eyes fell on the owner of her hat. "Oh... I'm dreadfully sorry. It would appear you have lost your hat." She spoke calmly, despite her evil expression.

The wind picked up pushing the fog and Maria's hair slightly. She looked down to the hat, and extended her arm. A wire extended down and pressed up against the cloth and pierced tiny holes, allowing it to be lifted off the ground. Without moving her arm, the wire extended out to the man, dangling the hat in his face for him to take it. She was convincing herself this was not an act of kindness.

"Well a girl like me, can take care of herself. I have done it for centuries. What would change such a thing? I have always held my own... and i was able to support my b*****d son... until..." She stopped dead where she spoke, not going on any further. The eminence of a tear forming in one eye, but quickly returning to what little of human emotion she had left.

"What is bringing you out here anyway?"

"Humanity... That was taken from me long ago." She whispered at his comment. She sighed and then looked up, all evidence of the display of sympathy and depression gone.

"I really am not going anywhere. I often come to this barren area to clear my head." As she spoke her barbed wire was retracting to her. "But if you wish to walk, I don't suppose it shalt hurt anything." She was actually grateful that he wanted to walk. She really wanted to talk, but the centuries of being a sel absorbed nightmare, she had not found an ear to listen. Perhaps this kind gentlemen, who's name she did not know would be able to listen and provide some sort of a comfort.

Maria looked at the out reached hand for a moment. She then looked to her own, and watched as barbed wire curled about it. "I don't think you would find that to be very... pleasant." She said slowly, happy with her quick thinking. She didn't want to show any emotion, attraction, or affection. She only wanted company, and touch was not what she desired.

She thought for a moment. "So you don't know anything about you came from? What you are, or rather who you are?" She looked at him with a sincere look on her face. " I mean, as much as... my own history haunts me... I cant imagine not knowing anything. Knowing nothing... but just being."

"While what you speak is true..." As she spoke a whind picked up and blew at her hair. She let the barbed hair that held it in a tight bun loose, letting it flow in the soft breeze. "... Eternity is still an awful long time. Especially when you loose something you so cherish." She stepped forward, away from the man.

She looked out into the long never ending nothingness that they were located. "I just... And after a while eternity gets repetitive. People live, People die. Sun up, Sun down. Even the randomness of life itself gets boring. Anymore... I just want to end my very existence. Maybe then I can truly have what it is that I seek." She turned and looked to the man. A smile on her face, and her eyes closed.

She looked over to the man that step closer to her. "But who is here to bear the burden of eternity with me? Everyone I have ever loved has met complete damnation. My son burns in the pits of hell its self. My whole life as a mortal... was a mockery of love. What have I reaped... so have I sowed. But why? Why must I live through out eternity like this." Tears started to roll down her eyes, as the barbed wire that was wrapped tightly around her body began to s**t and move and rotate and she was starting to get furious at her own pathetic existence.

"I have sworn to kill everyone that I can find that smells of the wizard that banished me to this... scum felt life. But with everyone that meets a sudden rustic and painful death, another seems to appear. What is that? Are their souls returning to the land? Does this happen? Is it normal? I never believed in reincarnation but this... this is hell. I can never rid the world of the stench of that man. Forget his family, he just wont go away." She collapsed into the man in a rage of fear, anger, and hopelessness.

Her blood was pouring out from her arms and legs, where the shifting wire had ripped and torn her skin once more. Even with all this pain she felt some comfort right here.