Find Solace In Memories

"Cathartic. Clearly."
Rada said, looking Zienna up and down, but her tone wasn't sarcastic, more like...contemplative. The smell of blood was alerting Rada, and her urge to get it cleaned and fixed was big. But Rada figured she shouldn't start fussing over that just yet.
"Well, good to know that all my bugging wasn't for naught."
Rada smirked, she seemed very calm despite what she had just heard. Rada made it her policy to not get easily shaken, and she didn't. She had seen many things during her life, that hardened a person to a certain degree.

"Sounds like you just need someone who just hangs on tight when you're about to slip. Can't say I can be one, at least not yet since you should probably know me better before I can properly pull you up. That blonde friend of yours did a good job at it, at least it looked like it until few days ago."
Rada shrugged at the end, implying that Zienna didn't have to tell her what happened between her and that blonde friend. But Rada hadn't seen or smelled the blonde around tonight, although she would've gladly seen her and given her a piece of her mind. Rada was going to carry a grudge for a long time about that mind invasion.
"Even if you ultimately have to do most of the work doesn't mean others can't escort you to the finish line."

"I need to call her blonde because I don't know her name, so don't get pissy about that."
Rada said when Zienna seemed angry that Rada called her friend with that name. Well, honestly Rada was more interested in how Zienna said "my people". Rada had guessed that Zienna was a leader of some kind, but a leader of what? It would be just perfect if Zienna was a leader of a spy group, or rebels or something. But Rada wished it wasn't a mafia or anything as criminal as that, because that would mean trouble in the long run. In that situation Rada would be the one warning Zienna not to get too close. Since Rada's family was big enough to easily crush a small local mafia or two, and they would do it of they thought Rada was trying to get away through them.

"Sure. And as my own personal saying goes, get something done to that before you lose a hand."
Rada said and gestured to the hand that Zienna seemed very disinterested in. Rada stood up and cracked her neck once, this evening had left her feeling fidgety and restless.
"I dunno, I feel like this "shitty" vodka might be wasted on your ungrateful taste buds."
Rada said that, but her lips twitched into a small smile, and she picked up the now empty vodka bottle. It would be used again in the distillery, waste not want not.
"And next time you need an ear just call me beforehand. I'm a busy woman who has a phone and enough time to answer it."

"Or maybe I was calling her blonde just to do the being annoying thing that got you to talk. Who knows, it's a mystery."
Rada answered right back and smirked, feeling content to see Zienna actually genuinely express amusement. Since Zienna had been a real sadsack thus far only now did Rada dare to think that the woman was hot. She had been avoiding doing that because somehow thinking a genuinely depressed person was attractive felt sleazy and nasty. But a smile could do wonders to a person's perspective.
So Roma was gone, huh? A really bad timing when you observed the state Zienna was in. But apparently Zienna had been the one to make her go. The things between these two seemed messy in a way that Rada didn't even accidentally want to end up being a mediator so she decided not to further ask about the blonde.
"You have a doctor and everything...I'm starting to suspect that you actually are a spy. But whatever you are don't tell me, I don't want to know."
Well, Rada's family had an army of doctors, so she wasn't actually all too surprised by it.

"I said "next time" because I'm about to give it to you."
Rada said, and like Zienna advised she dug out the woman's phone. Rada input the number of her burner phone, one that she had been able to attain that wasn't under surveillance by her family. While Rada was putting her number in she saw the time, she had to get back fast.
After she was done Rada just slipped the phone back to Zienna's pocket.
"No need to bring out the car, I'm going to run back. And I need to go now."

Few friends. Rada just nodded and didn't ask anything more. Like she had said, it was better she didn't know. Zienna seemed like an intense person and Rada had a wild imagination so it was better if none of her suspicions were confirmed, for everyone's sake.

"I don't worry about some speedster. And if I do it's because I'm racing them."
Rada grinned a bit, and went ahead and shifted into her wolf form. It didn't take long, and once Rada was a wolf she barked one more goodbye at Zienna and then turned around and began running out of the garden. She was fast and it wouldn't take Rada long to get back to the restaurant.