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"Likewise." I nodded and tried my best to offer you a smile, though I still feel the tinges of guilt from somewhere inside. Watching, I take a step closer as you reach into your eye before drawing back quickly at the ice blue iris that is revealed. "You..!" A hand comes to my mouth and I can't breath for a moment. Most half-breeds between angels and demons were damned, put to death often before taking their first breath. It was the first and only time I'd ever seen one, ever believed your kind was more than just an urban legend to scare us away from demons. Suddenly your wounds look all that more damaging, all that more real and painful. My eyebrows furrowed, I look to you while struggling to put things in order. "I..." I'm not even sure what I can say to you. How can you be sure I'm so different when even I'm not sure myself. Everything I'd been taught was telling me to run, to kill, to report... But I could do none of it. Not to you, not to any demon after this. How would I return to my kind changed like this? "I don't want to fight either," I admit, words muffled around my hand. "How can you not choose a side? How do you stay neutral?" The questions pop from my mouth before I can stop them and I look away at the revelation of my sudden indecision towards my own kind.