Anya was really taken by surprise when one of her potential friends grabbed her and stuck a dagger to her neck. She simply stood there, shocked, as her father burst into the room. Who could have expected that this stranger was secretly a bad man? Not Anya, certainly, because the stranger said himself that he was nice. That he was helping mister Elric feel better.

Was mister Elric bad? Was the big squirrel bad? Who else was bad that Anya thought fondly of? Would any of them put a dagger to her neck?

"Papa," she murmured softly, tears beginning to slide down her cold cheek. She looked at her father with frightened, pleading eyes. She knew what he had to do, and she knew what she had to do even though she still didn't want the stranger to get hurt.

Anya blinked a few more tears away, and turned suddenly into a cloud of mist.