01-09-2015, 02:45 PM
After shaking her head at his offer, Camila’s attention was once again taken up by Marta. The playful little creature with the panda was a different version of the withdrawn girl she’d observed earlier. Laughing softly, something she’d not genuinely done in a while, the woman played a long until Enrique spoke up once again.
She watched Marta go and picked up the bear. Holding it up and turning the stuffed toy this way and that, Camila smirked a little then set the thing back down. As her host began to give his apologies, the woman shifted her dark gaze towards him. It made sense that matters were tentatively awkward if he had just adopted the girl so recently. She was about to ask if there was a Mrs. Salguero as well, and how she dealing with the adjustment period when what he continued on saying killed the words before they were ever uttered.
Nuevo Leon. The hate the words unearthed tightened her jaw. Unable to look at Enrique’s eyes any longer, Camila focused on the bear Marta had left, and in that moment her heart broke. She knew then, what it had been that she’d seen in the girl’s eyes. She understood.
Oh, the evil that was the Nuevo Leon cartel had plagued her for many years. She had seen plenty of young women and girls be used and slaughtered. The fact that Marta had been a victim shouldn’t have shocked her as much; yet, after hearing the girl giggle, the idea that the child had endured as Salguero said made her stomach turn.
“How did you get her out?”
She heard the gratitude, anger, and sadness in his voice, but all the emotion had been drained from hers. Of all the things she had expected from the day, her current conversation had not been one of them. Camila had been much older when Nuevo Leon came for her, and knowing that a kid had endured as she had threatened to send her mind to dark places. Where had she left her beer? Suddenly, a drink sounded a lot better than a meal. “She’s so young. Nothing is sacred to those perros, isn’t it?”
From what she could see, the gem from her vision had some importance to the man aside from bit being a mere trinket. It likely held some sort of sentimental value, but for him to grasp at it at that particular moment made Camila wonder just what the story behind it was.
She watched Marta go and picked up the bear. Holding it up and turning the stuffed toy this way and that, Camila smirked a little then set the thing back down. As her host began to give his apologies, the woman shifted her dark gaze towards him. It made sense that matters were tentatively awkward if he had just adopted the girl so recently. She was about to ask if there was a Mrs. Salguero as well, and how she dealing with the adjustment period when what he continued on saying killed the words before they were ever uttered.
Nuevo Leon. The hate the words unearthed tightened her jaw. Unable to look at Enrique’s eyes any longer, Camila focused on the bear Marta had left, and in that moment her heart broke. She knew then, what it had been that she’d seen in the girl’s eyes. She understood.
Oh, the evil that was the Nuevo Leon cartel had plagued her for many years. She had seen plenty of young women and girls be used and slaughtered. The fact that Marta had been a victim shouldn’t have shocked her as much; yet, after hearing the girl giggle, the idea that the child had endured as Salguero said made her stomach turn.
“How did you get her out?”
She heard the gratitude, anger, and sadness in his voice, but all the emotion had been drained from hers. Of all the things she had expected from the day, her current conversation had not been one of them. Camila had been much older when Nuevo Leon came for her, and knowing that a kid had endured as she had threatened to send her mind to dark places. Where had she left her beer? Suddenly, a drink sounded a lot better than a meal. “She’s so young. Nothing is sacred to those perros, isn’t it?”
From what she could see, the gem from her vision had some importance to the man aside from bit being a mere trinket. It likely held some sort of sentimental value, but for him to grasp at it at that particular moment made Camila wonder just what the story behind it was.