Page 45 of Heart of the Hunted
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Natalia
Natalia really didn't understand this Demon. Why was he so interested in her? He admitted that he wasn't like it with any others of her kind, so why her? What made her so different from the rest of her kind?
Whatever the reason, Natalia wasn't about to complain. At the end of the day, as long as he kept his word and didn't kill her, then she couldn't give a shit about the whys. That was all that really mattered, after all. She couldn't find her way back to Amberly and Donovan if she was dead. So, unless she found a way to escape, she was going to have to take his word for it that she wasn't going to die.
"Are you hungry?" he suddenly asked out of the blue.
"What?" she asked, unsure if she heard right.
"Do you want something to eat?" he asked.
"Urm..."
"It's a simple yes or no answer," he said. "You're either hungry or you're not, so which is it?"
"Yes, I'm hungry," she said.
Her stomach rumbled and her mouth watered at the thought of food. Because she had been too worried to eat more than a couple of bites since she arrived at the bunker, she was absolutely starving now.
"Do you have anything in that bag of yours?” he asked, pointing at her satchel. “Or do you need me to catch something?"
Natalia looked down at her satchel trying to remember if she put any food in it before they left, but unfortunately she hadn't. Natalia hadn’t been thinking about food when she grabbed her stuff. It didn’t help having a Demon watching her every move.
"Urm, I don't have anything left in there to eat," she told him. "And it's a satchel, not a bag."
"I stand corrected," he said. "Now, do you have a preference on what to eat? Or will anything do?"
"It depends, what do you mean by anything," she said, looking at him suspiciously.
"Rabbit?" he asked.
"Yeah, I suppose that'll do," she nodded.
"Good. Come with me," he said, waving for her to follow.
It wasn't as if she had a choice in the matter, she knew Taredd wouldn’t let her stay behind because she could use that time to escape. So she couldn't stay behind even if she wanted to.
"Fine, if you insist," she said sarcastically as she followed him.
"Do you know how to catch a rabbit?" he asked.
"I can't say that I do," she said honestly.
In fact, Natalia didn't have clue how to catch anything. She’d never needed to know because she was always able to scavenge what she needed from the monsters.
"What do you know how to catch?" he asked.
"Nothing." She could have lied, but was there really any point?
His head snapped in her direction as he asked: "Really?"
"Yes, really,” she said. “I've never needed to catch anything."
"So, what do you eat then?" he asked.
"Whatever we can scavenge," she said, shrugging her shoulder.
