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Charlie blinked for a moment. Why, oh why if someone had a thrall would they even want to hunt someone. A thrall, someone more than willing to give them their blood, much like how Rhett was with her, was there for the taking. She looked towards the woman that Shan had motioned too and then nodded a little. "Why, if you have Seraphine, would you want to hunt others? Especially in this place?" She asked, glancing around. The streets here packed with party goers, drunks, all kinds of people that even though it was plausible to just say, hey they were drunk when they saw this, was probably still going to see something.

"I mean, it's kind of playing with fire isn't it?" She asked, though she didn't believe that they should be hiding what they were, that they should be allowed to live freely in the open just as any minority should without persecution, there was the rules to abide by, and so long as that ******* masq was in place, she was going to try to keep being spotted by someone and keep herself off that ******* bounty list. That was another thing she hated, seriously? Killing for money. That was just tasteless. Again though, there was nothing she could say, because if she said it, they would kill her just for voicing her opinion. Like they had before, even though she hadn't said anything, to her knowledge outside of the 5th. As far as she knew, that was their only reason for killing her and they had succeeded because that ****** she once thought of a sire, had left her alone to fend for herself.

She nodded when Shan questioned her name but as the woman continued talking, she had to wonder how it was that the ones that harmed people like this were so free to walk around, do what they want but when someone that wanted peace and togetherness, they were the ones that were killed. She sighed softly and shook her head clear of her thoughts. People here could do strange things with the minds of others, herself included, the only difference between her and them was that most of the time, she didn't use it to harm others. She rather detested having to harm someone if it could at all be avoided. She was sure that was one reason why Elliot and her had gotten on, why Elliot had taken her under his wing. As far as she knew, he was proud of her because she rarely harmed another living being.

She sighed as the woman looked at her, really looked at her, and she could spot the way that she recognized her. When she asked if she knew her, she was compelled to tell the truth, but one thing she had learned, there was a loop hole. She didn't have to offer information, she could just answer. "You do... And I know you." She said softly but she didn't say any more than that, what would be the point. If the woman knew her then there was no point to say anything else. especially if it meant that it would just get her killed in the long run. She wouldn't ask Elliot to hide her, she knew that if she did he would and then he would be in their sights as well. No, she would just let him know some **** had gone down and she would hide herself as best she could.

There was a very large part of her that wanted to take a step or two back at that smirk and the way she seemed way to happy to see her. Instead, Charlie fought tooth and nail to keep herself as still as possible. Like being faced by a vicious dog, don't move a muscle and just hope they get bored before they try to take your arms off. She took a deep, though she knew unneeded breath, to clear her mind of all the things that could go wrong when she spoke again. This time saying that she didn't run with that crowd. That made her feel slightly better, but she still didn't really feel safe around this woman. She loved harming others way too much for her liking. Licking her lips, Charlie nodded "Ditto. And Thank you." She said, meaning that she no longer was with the 5th, she had left when she realized that her sire, the man that had basically created her and then left her to be eaten by the dogs and shat out like crap, wasn't coming back from his hiding any time soon.

That was way she was with Elliot now, and she was much happier for it. Even if she had to be a bit more careful about the things she said, the things she though. She knew that she would be able to go to Elliot for anything she needed because he was definitely a more attentive sire that Killian had been. Even if they didn't talk all the time, she could feel his influence on her all the time, it gave her that much more strength.

Charlie gave a little bit of a shrug at the girl's question. "That would be correct." She said as she slid her hands into her pockets, slightly more relaxed knowing that she wasn't going to be adding to her current - and extremely long - list of scars that she had accumulated in her nearly year as a vampire. The woman seemed a little more relaxed too, but that could just be wishful thinking on Charlie's part. She had no longer any reason for being there, her sire had abandoned her, and everyone else had pretty much abandoned ship as well. She had tried to organize things at first but with Killian and Liam missing, Harrisa was also pretty distant and everyone else going. What was the point? She thought to herself and then glanced to the moon as she noticed just how bright it was.

Then she returned her chocolate gaze to the woman and sighed a little. She had to wonder about what the woman would think about that little bit of information, the fact that she was no longer part of that group. Would she be in even more trouble or would that mean she was a little more below the radar? She hoped that it meant to later because the former sucked. She had, to her knowledge, never been a big target before and she knew that when she was killed that she held no bounty on her head, so despite hating the idea of hiding, the idea of being hunted by their own kind for money, she had made sure she never or would try never to get another bounty on her head.

"Times do that." Charlie said softly. It was one reason why she just didn't understand why so many were scared of coming out of the coffin - to borrow from a popular tv show she had seen before she left - and just say 'hey, here we all are. Yes we have powers, but just like mortals, not everyone in power abuses that power.' She knew she rarely used any power's against others, unless someone counted zombies and the occasional gangster that thought they could take her down. How could the majority of people not welcome them into open arms. Look at all the tv shows that were out there, the ones that billions upon billions watched every few months. Even the darker ones where vampires were not painted in the best of light people still adored with everything in them. Hell she remembered one of her Roommates back in MIT had a calender for Twilight. Granted, most people saw twilight as a laugh vampire wise, but it was still popular. Vampires were Gods to the mortal man. Hell even she had been jazzed to know that vampires had existed.

Charlie was pulled out of her thoughts by Shan once more talking, Charlie's eyes automatically focused on her and she nodded a little more. "I guess you are right, but I still don't trust most of the people that had attacked me that night." So far the only exception to the rule was Zo, she had proven a few times by now that she would not harm Charlie. "What you guys did to me... it left more than just a physical scar. I didn't even do anything wrong other than be the progeny of the leader." She said, knowing by now that she was just rambling.