Phoenix Maplewood I don't feel connected to all of your lies.

Etienne didn't mind silence. It was actually usually something preferred when you were lost in your own feelings and had no where to turn or any idea what to do with them. And he didn't know. Lost at sea as he was.

Etienne could no more answer the questions that this man would have asked him than he could answer his own. He regular asked himself how he could care so deeply for someone who couldn't stand him. Who hated teh very air he breathed or at least so it seemed. But there it was. His quandary.

A soft laugh. 'e can be yes. A soft intake of breath and leave it out shakier, but okay. T'ank you.

A smile. I be livin' near dey ocean, it w'ere i grew up. Noting quite like de sea. Ah yes I know Redtail Rise. My manman er mama 'ad a friend dere and my brudder, Reiki 'e live dere or did. I 'ave not seen 'im in sometime. And 'e did not know me very well. Golden eagle stole 'im w'en we were very young and den 'e was dropped dere and dey took good care of 'im.