[h2][color=66CD00]Gratia Mindaro – An Old Friend[/color][/h2]

Bianca listened to Gratia. While some may have been surprised by the girl's tone, her choice of words. Bianca knew it had been there. She was not concerned nor was she stunned. She was simply, warm. She felt the heat begin to flush into her numb legs, fingers, and lungs. Gratia's tender fingers were stroking Bianca's hair. She hadn't even known realized that the car was still running. 

Bianca began to sniffle, as her tears well up. She pulled away from Gratia and wiped her face gingerly. Bianca looked at Gratia with eyes so big they looked to be able to capture the entire world in their gaze. 

[color=#9d36ff]"Thank you."[/color] And they did. Bianca's world began and ended with Gratia at this moment in time. She ripped her from perdition and gave Bianca a second chance. It was something she'd never pay back in full. But she would never stop paying it back.

[color=#9d36ff]"I'll wait here for extraction, you do your best."[/color] Bianca said with a smile like one a kid may bear when getting a present they know they don't deserve. She looked Gratia up and down one last time before embracing her friend once more. [color=#9d36ff]"I'm sorry you've been forced to do this. To come here and clean up this mess."[/color] Bianca said motioning towards herself.[color=#9d36ff]"But this will not happen again. I-"[/color] Through Bianca's peripherals the corpse of one Vitoria Dodici greeted her. Bianca tightened her grip on Gratia and dared not move.  She said through pursed lips as she held back her tears, she would not bother her friend any longer. She would leave them to their wanton destruction of the Dodici Cosca.

So there she sat. Embracing her friend whom had set her on the path of redemption. She dared not let go.