*Rewritten
"Who I am..". I said with too much hesitation in my voice.
How can I even begin to explain…. I thought to myself.
"Did you forget who you are?" The mysterious woman said to me. Although I didn't even knew her name, I for some reason didn't mind her asking questions. It felt as if she deserved to ask questions after our fight. She could be a great ally. That is, if she didn't kill me before dawn. I tried to come up with some some form of a valid explanation.
"I never had to explain myself. This situation never came up, most of my opponents die, leaving very little room for questions". The woman tilted her head in question, thought a while and let out a sign of understanding. "Alright, you're special, I can accept that. Now, just start talking". She told me, her face not offering room for negotiation.
"Why the 20 questions all of a sudden? I like to be alone, I'm quite content with myself, gives me the opportunity to disappear when needed. You must be able to relate to that, seeing as you appeared from thin air". I felt guilty, maybe my reply was too harsh and uncalled for.
There was a look in her eye that I have never seen before. The look that says that someone knows what you're talking about. She's been there.
"I don't know what you are, you're not a Lycan, and you're not one of us either. Although your strength does not seem human". I was confused, Lycans? Us? What was she talking about? She obviously knew more about these regions and the darkness that inhabits it than I did.
"What's a Lycan, and who is us? There are more of you?" I was surprised to learn this, I thought I was all alone, and now I found to not have found just one person who seemed to posses the same powers, or curse as I would call it, but there are more.
"My name is Nathalka, you seem like a stranger in these lands" She said as she tried to keep the conversation going. In the meantime she was checking out the places I wounded her.
"I am, I am just wandering around". I let the information settle in for a second "Nathalka, sounds Russian". I commented. But by the look on her face it was the wrong comment.
"That's exactly what everybody else thinks" She replied with aggravation in her voice.
"I'm sorry" I said. I seemed to have offended her in some way. "I've been alone as long as I can remember, I think I have lost some of my 'people skills'" I looked at her. Was that a smile I just saw for a second? If so it was only a split second before her face turned back into that impenetrable cold stare.
"You need to come with me" she said and her voice sounded more serious than ever before.
"I don't know if I should. Like I said, I work best on my own". This woman scared me. Being personal with someone meant vulnerability. I didn't like to get people closer than an arm's length of me, this way they can't punch you in the face when you least expect it. I certainly didn't like the idea of following her to an unknown location where she could do who knows what to me. She had already proven her inhuman strength once, and feeling the shooting pain in my nose, I didn't need to be reminded a second time.
"Look, it's a frakkin' miracle that you survived it on your own for so long" She said. "You can choose, either I kill you because you know too much, or you come with me".
I was surprised by the dominance in her voice. She gave me no choice, so I agreed to let myself be dragged into a new world. It wouldn't be pleasant, I hated change, let alone a change of worlds.