Diana glared up at him, her silver eyes glittering as she scowled. It was amazing how quickly the young woman could switch between being terrified to being downright furious. Or perhaps she had just snapped. It would explain why she could sit there and scold a murderer when she was lost in the middle of a forest with no way to defend herself and no one there to save her.

He’d thrown water on her though! Very cold water! Now she was lost, had been scared half to death, and was freezing on top of it all! At that thought she shivered before getting to her feet. She wrapped her arms around herself and started to bounce in place in an attempt to stay warm, her teeth chattering all the while. She must have made quite a funny sight, but at the moment that thought didn’t bother her at all.

“You really have to ask that?! You just KILLED someone, for goodness sake and then suddenly appeared right in front of me when I tried to run! Why WOULDN’T I have fainted after all that?!”

Her voice rose more and more as she spoke, until she was shouting at the man. She couldn’t help it though; she just wasn’t good at dealing with this sort of stress. And besides, the man deserved to be yelled at for killing.

He shook his head and sighed as he looked away from her and looked blankly into the darkness as he spoke. “You wouldn’t understand if I explained myself… but in short that man was a threat to me and many others as well as a cause. It was him or us.” He looked back to her with a very sly grin as he spoke with a slight chuckle now in his voice.”You would not be included in that ‘us’. Now stop yelling at me please, and maybe I will do something about your wet clothes.”

Diana shook her head furiously as the man spoke, her dark hair sending droplets of water flying in all directions.

“There’s never a good excuse for hurting someone. Even if that man was as bad as you say, you’re just as bad as him for taking care of your problems in such a way!”

She seemed to be slowly reverting back to her old, scared self. There was something different about it now though…Something very sad. Her eyes were still glittering…but it seemed to be with tears now rather than anger. She sniffed and rubbed at her face. When she pulled her hands away her cheeks were a slight pink as were her eyes which were shining even more in the starlight.

“Just leave me alone. I want nothing to do with you.”