"Can't blame her for that." There were more then a few kids who had chosen the quick was out back home. Or who had waited till they were old enough and then just let the poof happen so they were taken away by...whatever force took away all the kids around 15.

Orc had resisted when the time came, but out of fear. Nothing else. Pants wetting, cry himself to sleep at night fear. And every minute after that he wished that he had just let it take him.

"No." He snapped back into reality at the next question. "Can't feel as much as I used to." Hot or cold didn't matter as much since the accident. He could feel it, it just didn't bother him. Then again he had been in a mild climate so he could only imagine how he'd fair in like...a blizzard.