"Well my brother felt it be best to be with family and since mom and dad died they are all we had" She said looking at him. "I don't want to leave my home but it would be nice being with family..and now they are all I have for family" She said looking down.

"I understand." Raphael said with a smile. "I shouldn't have brought it up. Sorry." he said softly

Rion sat next to Pandora, "Are you okay?" Rion asked her. Rion was holding his wooden swords case.

Pandora sort of nodded. "I'll live, I'm just tired and a bit annoyed right now." She said softly closing her book and sighing. "How's your friend doing?"

Luna looked up and smiled. "No it's ok" She said with a smile as she too another sip of her water. She was starting to sweat as the sun's rays beated down on her. She took her shirt and wiped the sweat from her forehead fanning her self with her hand.

Raphael sat up and smiled a bit. "Are you sure its alright or are you saying that to make me feel better?" He asked softly.

"not it's alright" She said smiling as she looked at him. She took another drink as she fanned her self some more.

Pandora looked over at Mari. "Are you feeling better?" She asked softly.

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Raphael nodded with a smile. "Your hot? Why not sit in the shade?" He asked softly.

((I didn't know how to spell Marigold. I'm kind of bad with names and thats what Rion called Marigold when Pandora and him were talking.))


"Raphael my friend, his mom convinced me that it was a tour to die for. I didn't want to come at first but when he offered to go with me I agreed. Well you can see how well that went." Pandora said with a slight smile. "I'm still a bit shooken up truthfully. After we crashed everyone's been so busy I was on my own. Raphael was to busy comferting, Luna, the belly dancer. Her brother died." She said softly with a nod. "I suppose I'm a bit jelouse but I won't say anything. Its probebly better he keeps her mind occupied so she doesn't start crying agian. Its to hot to loose so much water." She said softly before shaking her head appologeticly. "I'm sorry I'm babbling again." She said putting on a smile. "I'm glade your feeling better!" She said her mood improving a bit.

Luna nodded and moved over into the shade more and looked at him. "much better." she said softly as she drank some more of her water. "So should we continue our talk" she said.

Pandora smiled soflty. "Well you see Raphael's mother was English and French. His parents weren't mairred when he was born so his mother left him here and went back to the UK. She became best friends with my mother and then slept with my dad two years after I was born. So when my dad found out about the tour he had to talk to her about sending me. It was just my luck to find her son was there as well. All of them and then my mother convinced me to come. I wanted to go to Japan for a bit but I was out of luck." She said wiht a nod. "I wounder if I had maybe that plane would have gone down and I would be in a sea of sand but of water. My luck has been bad since I was little." She said with a nod.

Rion went to make a fire for cooking. He started cooking the dead scorpion. When he was done he started to eat the scorpion.

((It's gross I know but hey, egyptians used to eat scorpions too ya know.))

Pandora smiled some and got up walking over. "You don't want to eat the tail. Its poisonis." She said softly. "And I hear their better roasted with salt." She said softly about the scorpion.

((Heck they still eat dead scorpion there.))

Luna waited for an answer, not getting one she just turned her head and looked out over the sea of sand. She took a drink of water and wondered if they will be saved.

Rion threw two more wooden kunais at the upcoming scorpions near him. "There, you go. More scorpions...they taste good." Rion threw the tail into the fire. "Thanks for telling me that information Pandora." Rion smiled at both Mari and Pandora.

"I know, I'd rather not get all lovey-dovey so soon like them. I want to know the girl I love more before I get far into lovey-dovey mode." Rion said.

Pandora looked away from Rion and Marigold. "I don't care if they slow us down any." She said softly. "I think its sweet of Raphael to try and keep Luna's mind off her brother." She said more to herself. "If your going to make a plan that doesn't include everyone, don't include me." She said softly standing up and walking back over to where she had been sitting. She picked up her book again and started to read, or pretend to.

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Raphael smiled a little. "Not right now." He said softly. "I think its best if we sit and relaxe for a bit." He looked out at the sand and woundered what lay beond.

"I agree" she said as she sat in the shade looking around. "I wonder what the others are talking about" She said looking at them. Luna liked Raphael but there was something about her that made her feel it was best not to get involved with someone..it just brake there heart. Then again she liked being told the things he tells her she was confused.

"I don't know Mari." Rion said. He got up to talk to Pandora. "H-hey Pandora, I'm sorry for what we said there. I didn't want to upset you...so uhm, sorry." Rion said. Rion didn't know it but his face was a bit pink.