[i]As the Watcher kept ripping into the skull of the dead man, she heard the quiet footsteps of the approaching woman, and slowly turned her head to face the one that had come here. The right side of her face was one that could be considered attractive - tanned, smooth skin, high but shallow cheekbones, an angular face with a small nose, a calm, beautiful maroon eye, and boyish brown hair. But the right side..purely cybernetic, with metallic plating covering her prosthetic jaws and cheekbone, the bulging cybernetic eye scanning the newcomer. Suddenly, the mangled head of the Darkwraith fell to the bloody ground with a thud, rolling across stone like a ball. The woman slowly rose, standing at her full height of eight foot one. Analyzing the blade within the newcomer's hands, her own hands suddenly found themselves drawing the dagger and the steel greatsword. The Abyss Watcher immediately reached to her back and tore the blade out of it's sheath, slamming it down upon the ground with a thud, while the steel blade sunk into the stone from the pure force. She simply held the jagged dagger to her side, but not before she raised her left hand to raise her mask and hide away her face once more. [/i] [i]She then began speaking, with a voice filled with calmness and bravery. The savagery seemed to have been gone..held back by the Watcher as if she did not seek to kill once more.[/i] "...You there. One that draws thee weapon, as if thou seek to attack.. Art thou affiliated with the great darkness known as the Abyss? Or art thee a warrior, who seeks to avenge the monstrosity slain afore me? I wish of no violence between us. I warn thee.. Sheath thy weapon..." [i]Adeline then tore her blade from the earth, raising it up to her side. She stared straight towards the woman, her grip on her weapons tightening.[/i] "...Or prepare thyself for combat in the best way thou can."

"... I just want to know why you're eating people," [i]The woman said truthfully, looking upwards; the other woman was over two feet taller than her. She did not sheathe the hilt of her unactivated HardLight blade just yet, although if Adeline did not want to harm her, then she would assume that her cannibalistic tendencies were for a reason. So her stance became more passive, however her blade was still at the ready.[/i]

"A good question, thou have asked. And thus, I just provide a sufficient answer to it. I would usually say I was starving..but that would not suffice, would it? No. It would not, although it was a cause. Animalistic instincts, instincts that bring out a human's...[i]primal[/i] nature, to be..exact." [i]It wasn't because of Adeline's instincts that she proceeded to devour the head of one she had just slain; it was something much darker indeed, coupled with her more vicious and cruel programming and objective. The grip on her weapon's loosened only slightly, although...she was still prepared for a fight against this one.[/i]

"Animalistic instincts? Human primal nature?" [i]The woman thought on this for a moment, eventually placing the hilt of her sword on the belt of her high-tech armor. She didn't trust the cannibal at all, and considering that she had just killed what the woman believed to be an innocent, her trust for Adeline only lessened. Unknown to the woman, red electricity began crackling along her forearms as her caution grew.[/i] "I think we all have a little of that," [i]She said, taking a step backwards.[/i] "But in no way does that explain why everybody's not a cannibal. Just you."

"Why does thou act if I murder and cannibalize others for my own enjoyment, I wonder? I do not do this for fun. I do this for the survival of this land, for my own survival, and for your benefit. I sacrifice myself as a wall against this darkness; this Abyss, yet I lose control against it. This vile monstrosity..he was less than human..he deserved worse that death, and what I did could he considered merciful." [i]Adeline spoke with a low, venomous tone, her cybernetic eye staring at the body as a boiling hatred began to show itself within her remaining eye. It was as if this...Abyss...this darkness...had done something truly terrible to the Watcher. She herself could not recall it, but whatever happened..she devoted her life to its destruction afterwards.[/i]

"... okay... whatever you say," [i]The woman murmured, finally relaxing. It was clear that she was a trusting one; if Adeline said that the thing was less than human, then it wasn't her duty to protect it, as the Knight of Kaleon... was it?"[/i] "Anyways... what's your name, Miss Cannibal?" [i]The woman asked with a sigh, her expression one of uncertainty behind her mask.[/i]