Intro by the ever annoying, Klin (aka klinanime1) This is SareG's stuff. She finally wrote something… Anyhow, this will be added on to eventually. If she continues. Don't blame me for anything except maybe the intros. I have no idea what the pairings will be (Or if there will be any), but rumor has it she kills everyone off. ^_^
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The visions began when she was sixteen.
Raye wandered through the forest groves of her dreams. The cool pines swept aside respectfully as she passed. This was where she always came when she needed to escape the harsh world of reality.
As she looked around at the familiar trunks of the foliage that she had looked at for most of her life. Suddenly, her eyes grew large and she realized that something had changed. Drastically changed. The air was still. No sounds of happily chirping birds or the rustling of other small animals in the undergrowth filled the air, causing a certain motionlessness in the air that signified danger.
Raye paused, sniffing the air of her dreamland carefully. "Blood," she breathed as she inhaled the metallic scent. Raye was about to cry out when her attention was distracted by something new and brilliant.
A few dozen yards to her right a small stream was glinting in the sunlight. Now distracted from the disturbing smell of blood in the air, Raye headed over to this novelty. As she neared the stream, Raye wondered to herself, "It's so bright. Where's the light coming from?" And indeed, the light seemed to radiate from the water itself.
But water didn't come into the picture. Raye sat down at the edge of the small river and, awed, tried to run her hand through the gleaming water. When she drew her hand out of the stream, though, it wasn't wet.
"A river of light!" Raye gasped, tumbling backwards.
While Raye continued to stare at the dazzling bright "water," something much darker flowed into the stream, casting a shadow on her face. The acrid smell of blood that Raye had smelled earlier returned in full force, much stronger than before, filling her head with its stench.
Raye, curious now about the dark substance staining the flowing light, thrust her hand back into the river. When she pulled it back again, she had a hard time keeping back the ear-splitting scream that was ringing in her head. Her hand was now covered in blood.
The girl jumped away from the tainted river with a yelp and started sprinting away. Raye ran for ten minutes, trying to put as much land in between her and the light-river. As she ran, all she was aware of was her own heavy breathing. If she had stopped for a moment, she might have noticed the sounds coming from the clearing not twenty feet from her.
As it was, Raye ran headlong into the clearing and headlong into a group of the warriors, armed to the teeth and looking kind of annoyed…