[Only one of those bags was from the store she had gone to; the other one sitting there with it was her own personal bag, which housed her wallet and cell phone, and a few other things.

There was a small pause when Monarch asked the question. Desidera had expected that she would need to explain what she was referring to at some point; Gunvolt knew what she had meant, of course, but he wouldn't have gone saying anything without first making sure it was okay with her.]

Ah. Well. It isn't anything along the lines of being used, but for my whole life before I came here, I was never really allowed to leave home, though I do understand that it had been at least partially for my own safety. I was... Well, I'm basically part-daemon. My parents are human, but my mother had made a deal with a daemon before I was born, except it didn't work out the way she intended, and I was changed because of it.