WITH YOU * stranger

[ORPHEUS]

[align=center][div style="max-width: 500px; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.4;letter-spacing:.1px"]Orpheus wouldn't say his life was a game so much as a series of bad turns. He can't help but wonder when karma will pay him back for whatever's going on up there in the universe — after everything that's gone wrong, something has to go right. Sometimes he wonders if this place is supposed to be it. It's beautiful and everyone treats him alright, and if they don't, he doesn't mind. But after a lifetime of having good things ripped out from underneath him... well, forgive him if he's not too eager to let himself get wrapped up in everything. Still, he's started to take their politics and rules and strange traditions personally, which is why he's out here even though winter's chill is starting to bite at him. It wasn't too bad right now, with the grass still green and flowers still living; Orpheus is just someone more prepared for a beach or sticky-humid summers. It's an adjustment, as everything is.

This part's getting a little familiar, though. The lion picks up the pace when he sees someone unfamiliar in the grass, someone much smaller than him and apparently lost. Once he's close enough to see her but still well out of each, Orpheus stops in his approach. "Can I help you?"