This story is for Razalude. He may be mean and cold, but maybe he needs a little love in his life. Enter Tara Valen, Airi's cousin from Europe, who lives with Airi unaware of her connection with Astelle...until now.
I don't know what happened. One minute Airi was here and the next she wasn't. I heard her voice say something, a name or something, and then she vanished in a flash of light. Where could she have gone. I walked into her room and sat on her bed trying to make sense of my cousin's sudden disappearance. Sitting in Airi's room by myself made the loneliness I have been feeling for the past year come back. After I lost my mother in that dreadful car accident, I was sent to live with my cousin Airi. She was the only family I had left. My father died when I was young while in England and I didn't have any siblings. I curled up on Airi's bed, sinking into the soft down comforter and wondered in silence where my only family had gone. My loneliness was making me tired, and I began to close my eyes.
Suddenly a light started to shine. I looked up and saw that her mirror, the one from great-great-great-grandmother Chrisnelle, was glowing. I stared at it for what seemed like forever...It was strange. A glowing mirror?
Dare I touch it? I reached for the beautiful silver five-pointed star mirror, and picked it up. Nothing really happened as I held the cool metal object. I touched the glowing glass thinking it wouldn't hurt me.
I was wrong.
As soon as I touched it, sparkling lights started to surround the space around me and the light from the mirror shone brighter than before from the glass. A flash blinded me and before I knew it I was falling. It wasn't long before I stumbled out on a marble floor. I hit my head really hard and soon found myself blacking out. Before I did I heard a voice call out my name.
"Tara!" It sounded like Airi. "Tara, are you alright?"
"Airi," I said trying to keep consciousness. I heard other voice. Male ones. But I couldn't stay awake.
I had found my cousin, but...where was I?
