[There really wasn't time for a break — not when Mello kept coming up short on finding the answers he wanted — needed — still so far from his goal of getting out of the city and back home. He sat down anyway, expression rigid and annoyed, eyes scanning the lewd crowd around him. His mind worked quickly to come up with an alternative plan — he needed to find more people who were willing to take risks, to sacrifice anything to get out — and was so deep in thought, that he only vaguely registered the question directed at him.
Turning his attention from the crowd to the girl who was speaking, Mello gave her a look that clearly communicated what he thought about strange girls who were probably too young to be in a city like this offering him food that he assumed was partially eaten.]
No.
[He looked her over, eyes lingering on those beads, and attempted to guess her age.]
Aren't you a little young to be out here?
[It was likely that she had been pulled in against her will, like himself, but that did not mean she needed to be out and about, baiting herself for the perverted residents of the city.]
no subject
Turning his attention from the crowd to the girl who was speaking, Mello gave her a look that clearly communicated what he thought about strange girls who were probably too young to be in a city like this offering him food that he assumed was partially eaten.]
No.
[He looked her over, eyes lingering on those beads, and attempted to guess her age.]
Aren't you a little young to be out here?
[It was likely that she had been pulled in against her will, like himself, but that did not mean she needed to be out and about, baiting herself for the perverted residents of the city.]