[h3][color=666fff]Alyona[/color][/h3] "[b][color=666fff]No point. That kind of stuff won't help me.[/color][/b]" Alyona tried to crush the empty can in her hand, but she couldn't quite manage it - the imported can had stronger walls to stand up to international shipping and she was still at her limit. She settled on tossing it. She took a deep breath and stood up, bracing herself against the wall. She needed the deep breath to brace her body for the strain of standing, but it also steeled her for an embarrassingly theatric move - which she, unfortunately, had done too many times in the past. "[b][color=666fff]There's only one thing you can do that actually helps.[/color][/b]" Leaning closer to Jeremy, she met his eyes with an intense stare. "[color=666fff][b]You've heard of vampires, haven't you?[/b][/color]" Alyona finished her statement with a smile that showed off her perfectly white teeth. It wasn't her favourite method of getting to leech off of someone, but it had something resembling a success rate in the past - and might actually work better in Rhea where superstitions were different from Yekaterina. Alyona dreaded walking home with her injuries more than she dreaded some random kid on the street thinking she was a weirdo, at least. Plus, it wasn't a crime if they agreed to it, according to Alyona's nonexistent knowledge of Rhean law. [@Spin The Wheel]