Amber looked at the dirt while she ate her meat. "I'm not from here" she said after a while.

she looked up at the boy "you don't look like you're from here either, not with that thing on your neck" she gestured to his collar with her head.

He sighed. "Fine, you caught me. I'm from farther, uh, south." He figured it wasn't exactly a full lie, but he couldn't really tell her he was a demon and from hell. He didn't mention his collar, because he didn't really know how to respond. If he told her it was a collar, she would ask more questions. A choker necklace maybe? Would she believe that?

Amber raised an eyebrow "uh huh, sure. Definitely not going south if they chain people up like dogs"

She stood up and went over to the fire to keep it going.

"What are you doing here?" She asked after a few minutes of silence

Sage winced at her first comment and then stared at the ground for a moment, thinking of an answer. "I guess...I don't know...I guess I hang in the forest because it's better than the streets. And the streets are better than where I live."

Amber sighed and huffed her way back to where she was sitting.

"yeah...people aren't my thing either"

She placed some meat on her shoulder and went back to eat the rest of the meat.
"How'd you get here then?" She asked, eating the last piece of meat off the leg

He sighed. "I'm working. Technically. But I didn't kill you. So now I'm just waiting for whatevers going to happen." He made a face. "Wait. Now it's sounds like an assassin. That's not it." He slipped his finger under his collar and ran it back and forth, thinking. It was a habit he picked up when he was younger. He didn't know how to explain this without seeming really odd.

He shook his head. "Not you specifically. And not kill you, it was more along the lines of I definitely should not have saved you, I should have let you die." He sighed and stood up. "You know what, this conversation isn't making any sense and I don't know how to better explain it so I'm just gonna leave." He turned on his heel and sprinted away, cursing himself for having said so much to the girl. He ran for only a minute before running into Death. He yelped and backed up slowly but Death grabbed him by the wrists and chained him to two trees. He took out a whip made of hellfire and scowled at Sage. "You're in so much trouble, mister." Sage gulped, his heart loved in his throat. "At least I'm not ugly like you," he muttered in an act of bravado. Death answered by bringing the whip down across his shoulders. Sage yelped and wriggled around but couldn't do much as the whip landed again and again.

Amber sighed as she watched the boy run.

"just you and me again Jupiter..thankfully"

Sudden yelps from near by sends terror through Amber body. She gets up, puts the fire out and climbs into the trees. She quietly creeps along the branches, edging closer to where the ruckus was coming from. She saw the boy being whipped and gasped slightly

should I help him? She thought to herself

Sage continued to wriggle around and snarl, occasionally letting out a pained yelp. He stilled for a moment before focusing all his energy into his fists and releasing it in explosions that tore the chains from the trees they were tied to. He stood up and turned around to face Death, now seriously pissed. Death merely hummed. "Interesting," he thought out loud. "How did you do that? The collar is supposed to keep you under my control. I didn't allow that." Sage scowled. "The collars burning, yes, which I've gotten used to because you use it so often." Sage was bluffing, it was extremely hard just to stay standing up between the way his collar seemed to burn his entire body, plus his back and shoulders were still bleeding from the whip. But Death didn't need to know that. Death merely hummed thoughtfully and shrugged. "I guess it's time to make a new collar then." He dissapeared, which was a good thing because those words made Sage go pale. A stronger collar? He could barely stand this one. He groaned and sat down heavily, and focus on getting the chains off his wrist.