I do. It's something we have always had in common. How much... we love our siblings, how much we would do for them, give for them.

[james looks over at her with a small, rusty smile but it is there, and he meets her gaze after a moment at that question. then he looks back out at the pool again, looking into the water of it.]

The mark... takes.

Before I was a Hunter, before I made that choice, I was... different.

Charming, sociable, good... at parties.

[James shakes his head slightly because he is not any of those things anymore.]

Smiled easily. Connected... more easily. [to people.]