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"The name's Orion. As you can probably tell, I'm a mountain goat demon. Strange, huh? We're a minority, and we stick strickly to our mountains. We don't migrate, and we certain don't give up our lands.
As the oldest at 126, I'm in charge of checking our food supply and keeping hunters away from us. Back then, it was rather easy since they were pretty stupid. Then it got harder and harder as the years went on.
Soon, they got ahold of technology that made are heads spin. Soon, we were not only being hunted, no longer as threats, but mere 'game'. Little by little, our numbers decreased drastically.
Before i knew it, I one day came home from gathering some food, only to find that I was the last one left. This was a great shock, and a very sad one.
With such shock and sadness that I was gripped, I had not taken notice of a hunter who had lain in waiting for me. Too late, I tried to notch an arrow, I was shot in the shoulder, the iron bitign into my flash like fire. I bit back a horrid scream. I was able to stay standing for I still rejected defeat.
With a roar of anger, I charged forward towards my attacker. Rather than shooting me, they stepped aside and dealt me a blow that rendered me unconscious immediately. I blacked out, the last thought in me mind was, 'is this really the end for me!?'
I know not how much time had passed, but I awoke to find myself in a...a...the wooden structure that humans lived in. I tried to move, butpain shot up my right arm. Turning my head, Iwas surprised to see it had been bandaged up. Why? Why did the hunter not kill me? What reason, was I still alive?

The name's Austin. Don't bother asking about the last name I left that in the dust ages ago. Anyway I was hired by a city to the south of the Mountains to spook away some demons. I wasn't to sure what this entailed until I got up there with some other hires. What they did was horrible, these demons were more like us then I could have imagened, and they took them out without even blinking.

After they had finished with their dirty work they put me in charge of making sure there were no survivors. I wasn't suprised when one came back from who knows where, to the mess they had left behind. I thought I could scare him away with a warning shot, but I miss judged and shoot him. Of course he went on the offence aftter that, but I couldn't bring myself to kill him, even if it would be better for him now.

I managed to knock him out and desided to take matters into my own hands. Maybe our peoples could coexist, if there was any of his kind left. I took him to a shack out side of town, and tended to his wonds. I couldn't make up for what we had taken from him, but I could try and make it better.

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Austin was working on getting a fire going to cook dinner when he hear the sound of fabric moving behind him. Turning he saw that the demon he had brought with him was awake. "Easy there Aries. No ones going to hurt you here." Just to prove his point he showed that his gun was over with the other's bow and arrows.

Austin placed his hands in front of him in a defesive surender of sorts. "Easy there. I am human your right. I was upi there when it happened I'll admit it. But I'm not proud of it at all. What I saw was a massacar of inoccent lives. I couldn't pull my trigger then." He let his arms settle in his lap and his hands dangle between his legs. "I'm sorry for what my people have done. I know that doesn't mean much to you but I am. And shouting you back there too, that was a miss fire." He looked to the demon with kind eye hoping that he could at least calm him down enough to talk civily. That would be the first step into even seeing if there kinds could live in peace.

Sighing Austin shruged. "Believe what ever you want.I'm not trying to pull any thing. At any rate you can stay here till you're arm heals up if you like....how is it feeling by th way? I got the bullet out but I'm not the greatest with bandages." As he spoke he returned to his fire to start woking on his super, Grits.

Austin chuckled under his breath. Fo some strange reason that statment didn't suprise him at all. Being a demon asociated with a native animal he probably knew all the plants in the area that could heal let alone had all the capability to use them effectivly, though that was a big assumption that was waaaay out of his usual size of thought. A grin spread across his face though when he heard the familiar tone of a rumbling stomach though. "Don't get too upset Aries. I don't have a lot of food, but I'm willing to share. It's almost ready too."

Austin shurged at the agression. He figured he would do the same thing if some one he hated was suddenly being nice to him. "Why? Can't a guy do something nice for no reason? Any way's suite yourself. I have to right to stop you." He seemed very calm through all of this. Though he knew the other wouldn't get to far in his curent state. he had been down that road himself before.

"Again with the human thing." Austin rolled his eyes as he surved up some of the grits for himself. "I'll admit, human can be short sighted when it comes to our desitions, but we started out lower than your people I'm certin. There are legends all over about what demons have done to men. We don't kill who we think are unworthy, not on purpose anyway. Much like any other animal on this planet we attack to protect and out of fear."

Turning around his back was to the fire as he continued."And as for a reason to trust you, I feel sorry for being up there when every thing happened. I want to make things better between our people and I'm trying to start with you." Taking a spoon full of the cornmeal based meal he ate it and then offered it to the demon as if he had just proved that it wasn't poisoned. "Besides, you wont get that far with that arm like that."

Austin listened intently as it seemed he was learning a bit more of his geust by the minuet as they spoke to each other. Though the thought of killing the other was out of the question.

"And what would killing you acomplish? An entier clan would have been whiped out, and what would other clans see of it? The exact same accusations you have brought before me and the rest of my kind."

Sighing he came a little closer to the demon with his plate in his lap. "I'm not asking you to pick and leave, I'm not even asking you to disapear by any means. I can't kill you and I want to make things right."

Offering his plate to him once more he was a little more insistan. "Now eat. A meal and a good night's sleep will help with that wound. Even I know that much."