Cass

She was in a whole new world that did not make sense, and she was tasked with something that she wasn't entirely sure she could do.

Her father created her to take life, but she was given the instructions by someone else to keep this one's life and make sure it thrives. Even though she doesn't know how to make sure that happens. But this was entrusted to her and her alone so she must see to it through the end.

But she knows for a fact that she does not want to take life like her father wanted her to. And now she knows that she wants to protect it, much like how her mission is now. To protect this small being, and keep him alive.

But this place she was instructed to go to? Very strange. After all, it is where she met the people who became to be known as her protectors. Even if she does not need protection. And those two were very odd indeed.

They try to teach her words. Words both spoken and not. The not spoken words she was more familiar with as it is with the whole body, even though it is mostly with hands.

The smaller ones try to keep the teaching up when the protectors are not around. All four of them, the protectors and the smaller ones, do their best to provide for her and the little one.

The smallest of the two smaller ones (who walks around on light feet, and carries a black rectangular object that she has seen before. It snaps and keeps images of where it was looking with its glass eye.) take her and her little one to his home. It is large, and cold, but he tells her with his body that it is safe. He is alone there. The bigger of the smaller ones (who carries himself as if expecting a fight from her, and almost always has at least one small wound) sometimes stay with the three of them. He takes them out to show them the best places to hide.

The protectors teach her ways to protect and not kill. To run and not maim. To not get hurt and how to heal not only herself but others. The protectors take them all to places to eat, and try to show them how to make their meals. How to take proper care of the little one.

She comes to love all of them. Including the little one.

Yes, the protectors are very odd as most of the people she knew would not do this. Maybe they affect those they come into contact with much like the smaller ones.

(She thinks perhaps the protectors take in those who are hurt. She can see that the smaller ones are not hurt on the outside but the inside. She wonders if she and her little one are hurt on the inside too.)

She wonders why the protectors act the way they do, sometimes. It might be due to the fact that they are two people in one body. She knows this, but as she watches the others, the little one doesn't know, the bigger one suspects but denies it. The smaller one knows too, but will tries not to communicate much about it. Unless needed she suspects.

The protectors act that they aren't in one body however. They act as if they are something that she comes to know as 'twins'. But they are not and she knows this, and they know this.

The way they move are different yet similar. It is as if they were trained by the same master, and it is very likely that they were. But they both show traces of something different. One… flies around more while the other is more… grounded.

It is hard for her to describe things, but she was getting better. Her 'vocabulary' was getting wider.

(It also helps to keep them separate by the clothes that they choose to wear. When things get difficult to keep the two separate. But sometimes it's hard to tell when exactly they switch around as they tend to act. And acting can be hard for her to tell if the acting is really a truth or a lie.)

Either way, she can tell. Especially those moments where she can almost see the second one. The one who did not belong in their body. When larger hands tuck away one of the smaller one's hair; when ice blue eyes shine with pride when one of them managed to make the little one laugh. When one of them is in danger and he almost is there entirely to protect them like he was meant to.

When he is sad and is missing of people she does not know, he looks a lot like a man she once caught a glimpse of.

Cassandra is in a very strange place, with very strange people. But they protect her and she will protect them with her life. And she hopes to ease the second protector's sadness.