I smile as I feel a deep pain somewhere along my right shoulder and the right side of my chest.
I hear someone scream, another call my name as they catch me in my fall to the cold ground.
Their arms are warm… comforting… familiar…
"Oh… oh no… no, no, no… please… hold on… please…" I hear a boy beg…
His voice seems far away… dreamily hazy… and somewhat hysterical…
I open my eyes to find myself looking into a pair of deep amethyst ones.
"Oh… hello…" I say as I try to remember who it is I'm looking at.
"Chi… Chi… hold on okay Chi?" he says, his voice cracking with sadness.
"Hold on to what? I have nothing to hold on to… I'm slipping…" I whisper.
"No! You're okay… it's nothing but a small wound… you're going to be fine." He replies.
I smile sadly, knowing as well as he does that as we speak, blood is soaking through the fabric of what I'm wearing and forming a pool beneath me.
"Please… just hold on…," he begs me again.
I gently touch his face, leaving a trail of scarlet along where I brush my fingers.
"You… You seem… familiar…" I say as I begin to remember foggy memories.
"What…? You don't know who I am?" he asks, near hysterics again.
"A thief… you are a thief… you are the phantom thief…" I say as I struggle against the haze in my mind.
"The phantom thief as well as your fiancée… You know my name Chi… you have to know it." He replies placing his hand over mine.
I suddenly see only black… black and his striking eyes…
"Dark…" I whisper as my hand falls from beneath his, landing neatly on my midsection, and everything slips away.
"Chi… Chi…? Chi! Chi answer me! Open your eyes! Don't leave me! I'm begging you Chi! Don't leave me!" he sobs as he holds me close.
He seems so far away… I reach for him but I'm just too far… and I can't fight anymore… I simply let go as I whisper too low for him to hear…
"I'm…sorry… my love…"