2 hours ago
Madison & Mackenzie
Hayden had chuckled. "It does, but i promise you it's all true. Nox isn't the man you think he is."
Maddi had listened to the story -- Nox had told them what happened. He said it as calmly and as matter of factly as Hayden had. It wasn't a lie. Maddi knew that. She sat up and poked Kenzie to wake up. "Soup and cheese." She giggled. They liked cheese. They didn't get the good stuff often -- usually was the preprocessed stuff. "OOOh and toasted bread too." Kenzie sat up when her sister mentioned the warm bread.
They both sat and ate.
Hayden gave them both a smile. "Monsters are real. Nox doesn't kill innocent people. He has a savior complex. He'll do everything in his power to save anyone in need. Their parents were a mercy. And they are part of the litany in his nightmares. Faces that haunt him. Victims he couldn't save." Hayden sighed and nodded towards the kids outside. "Those kids out there, they are asked Nox to save their friend -- he was a victim, kept in a cage, was used as a chew toy by cannibal boy. He begged Nox to leave him -- to leave him. Nox chose mercy instead of burning to death. Another face to huant him, but those kids aren't angry at him. They understand why. They knew what he went through."