Her life was perfect. She had her mother, father, siblings, and they all lived together in a realm where forbidden love doesn't exist. In this realm, they were safe, in this realm they were hidden from all that would wish to harm them. They lived in complete happiness and peace. But, sometimes, all happiness must end.
One day, her parents received word of of a threat to their beautiful child. She was different, and her kind of different was not welcomed amongst these people. In order to protect her, they must send her away to a world ignorant of demons and angels. They sent her to Earth. Her mother carried her to Earth alone.
When they arrived, it was storming, with pouring rain, lightning flashing, and thunder crashing. She flew in the cover of the storm to a dark wooded area. She quickly landed, folding her soaked wings, until they disappear into her back. She set the child down onto the drenched soil. Looking into her daughter's eyes, much sadness washed over her, as well as love, and a serious atmosphere comes over the young child began to cry.
"Shh, shh, young one." Her mother cooed to her as one would with a newborn child.
"Mommy, I don't want you to go. I'm scared." The little girl cried into her mother's chest.
Her mother held her close with tears streaming down both of their cheeks. She pet her daughter's hair and began to sing.
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine." She crooned barely choking back her heartbroken sobs. "You make me happy, when skies are gray. You'll never know, dear, how much I...love….you…." The mother let a few more tears escape, and the child's own sobs had quieted. "Please don't take my sunshine away…" She whispers to the sky.
With a steadying breath, the woman stood, helping her daughter to as well. Putting her hands the young girl's shoulders, she speaks in a tone of seriousness.
"I have to leave, now." She spoke, trying not to let herself show the amount this farewell breaks her heart. "This is as far as I can take you, my love. Now, listen, there is a cottage several miles to the south." The mother pointed to the darker, more intimidating part of the wood. The child looked from her mother to the direction she had pointed. With a determined look on her cherub's face, she nodded. Though still frightened of being on her own, the child knew that she had to be strong, for her mother. Because, for whatever reason, her mother needed her to. Her mother produced a survivor pack and handed it to the young girl, who peered through her caramel locks up at her mother.
"There's enough supplies in this bag to get you to the cottage." Her mother told her with shining eyes. "I love you. I love you more than you know, Elizabeth Nevaeh. Be safe, my sunshine…" The woman's head jerks upward as she hears the sound of their pursuers. She looked behind herself frantically, and then back at her daughter. "Run, my love. I'll keep them away from you as long as I am able. Now, GO!" Her mother ordered, spreading her wings as she spun around, and taking off towards the sound of the pursuers.
Elizabeth obeyed, and ran as far as her little legs would take her. She ran with tears falling down her cheeks, to the cottage, away from the war cries of her mother, away from the howls of the monsters.