Faith slowly clambered out of the back of the van, squinting as the harsh sunlight hit her eyes. The mayor was already out and standing with an air of glory, soaking up the rays of light. Elissa sat in the back of the van, refusing to move.

"I'm not coming out until you tell me where the hell I am." Elissa shouted at no-one in particular. The mayor sighed heavily and said something in the demon's language, one of the demons stepped into the van, approaching Elissa menacingly. The petite girl began to kick out with her legs in a humorous way; it was obvious she could never win against this monster and this thought seemed to dawn suddenly on her. She cowered in a corner, eyes closed in fear. An ear piercing scream shattered the nervous silence and the demon stopped in it's tracks, looking extremely confused. Elissa ran. She dodged past the bewildered demon and all the others, equally as nonplussed as to where the sound came from. The mayor didn't have time to react and Faith didn't want to stop Elissa's freedom. Elissa ran along the bumpy dirt track ahead of her and away into a forest nearby.

"What are you just standing around here for?" the mayor shouted, his smile now gone. "Follow her!" realising the demons didn't understand, he repeated what must have been the same message in their tongue and they immediately came to their senses. As if waking from some type of trance and began to run in the direction Elissa had gone, going very fast for their size.

"Faith, why are you standing around here too?" The mayor asked, still angry but in an I'm-doing-this-for-your-own-good kind of way. "Shouldn't you be helping the others out?" Faith looked towards the direction Elissa had gone, seeing vague rustlings among the trees every now and then, then looked back to the mayor, expressionless.

"I don't know if I can do this anymore" she stated simply, as if it was just a fact, like saying that one plus one is two or that she had dark hair, though this was just a defence mechanism to stop her feeling too much. The mayor knew this too.

"My dear Faith. Have Faith." The mayor took a moment to congratulate himself on this pun "but seriously, we'll get you back to your normal fiery self before you know it. Right now we just have to take care of this little troublemaker you've landed us with here." Faith began to feel immensely guilty for causing so much trouble.

"I'm sorry" Faith said, the words feeling strange in her mouth. It felt like the first time since she was a child that she had said those words and meant it. The mayor, however, just looked disappointed.

"No, don't be sorry. The old you would never have cared about causing all this trouble, you'd have been happy about it."