Lina Inverse sat around the fire alone, her eyes were so full of pain that he almost didn't see in her the brave girl of some years ago: "Lina-chan..."
Lina turned towards the voice's owner, her eyes were subdued: "What's there Xelloss-san?"
Xelloss Metallium almost cringed to her tone but she was ever so from the death of her friend and mate Gourry Gabrieph: "Two month are passed and you mourn over him again!"
"You can't understand, you're a mazoku!"
He finished the sentence for her: "And the mazoku can't love."
She turned the visage without facing him.
"Where is the Lina Inverse that I know? The girl that didn't know the surrend."
She cried weekly: "She's dead that night. This time I wasn't able to save him with the Giga Slave neither!"
"Don't you think to Amelia and Zelgadiss?"
"They're happy together. They don't need of me!"
"And Shilfiel?"
"Shilfiel isn't survived to his death and me neither."
"And me?"
"You?"
"Yes, Lina-chan, me."
"you're a mazoku. You aren't interested to his death, I think you was only feeding of me."
"I can't help of feeding myself of you but you're wrong. In a very special way I consider Gourry, Zelgadiss, Amelia, and Philia too as my friends and so I'm sad about his death."
Lina gulped: "and me? What do you think about me?"
"I need of your fire, Lina-chan. I plead with you, let me help you to ignite it."
Her eyes became impossibly big while they watched him go near her and holding the hand.
She remained thoughtful for a little then she allowed to Xelloss to do her stand up.