Break...away from everybody...away from everything

Mako's eyes widened as he watched the scene unfold before him. The strange woman who smelled like blood, the man who had just rescued him preparing to face off against her, and the strange scented girl who seemed to be trying to scare off the woman along with Demonio. He watched with careful eyes, cowering closer to the ground as the black woman began to circle them. Her words reaching his ears, his body shuddered at the sound of her voice...he wanted to run, but his paws would not move. He watched with wide eyes as she began to talk about him...He stared at his paws, ears flattened to his head. Were Demonio and Maka just protecting themselves? Or did they feel sorry for him? The things this woman said, hurt the boy...but it was things he was used to hearing. After all, he heard it all the time from his parents. Nothing new...but here, he thought he had gotten away from it all. But it seemed not. Would the two that were here do the same to him?

He swallowed and flinched as the black woman made her final threat. Then vanished into the undergrowth, the smell fading with her. He swore that the two could hear his heart pound in his chest at the fright the woman gave him, but it just pounded in his ears. After her scent had completely gone, he slowly rose from his hiding place and crawled out from underneath Demonio. Glancing nervously at him and Maka, he stared up at the bigger man. "Are...we still going to play?" He had pushed away the hurt that resided in his eyes, instead replacing it with a slightly hopeful one. Surely these two wouldn't be like his parents...?