Chapter 2

The Legend

I stood up and sheathed the knife into my shoe, then ran. I got out of the village fairly easy, but word about Salo's death was already going around.

When I finally found a good place to hide, I was far from the city. I set up camp and took out the dagger. It was cold, as cold as ice. I didn't understand any of this, but my mind kept going to an old legend the village elders liked to tell:

Long ago, when the village was first created, 2 brothers brought a sword to the planet. A sword of Light and Dark. It was not made for battle or for show, but for capture. It would capture the black magic in one and put it into another. They went all over the land, looking for this black magic and took it for themselves, but the day came when they mistakenly, lent it to another. This woman they gave it to, didn't believe that a weapon of such power should even exist and believed that it was her job to get rid of it forever. And so she searched for a means to destroy it, but every time she tried, she couldn't succeed. The brothers learned of her plan and decided to take the sword back, but it only rejected them any time they tried to get close to it. They tried everything they could to get it back, but the black magic within their hearts soon began to eat away at their souls and devour them slowly from the inside out. The woman found their bodies lying on her floor distorted and grotesque and decided if she couldn't destroy the blade, then she would instead hide it away forever, to never be found.

I always thought of it as a little myth, but now, I didn't know what to think. If it was the "sword" from the myth, then why would Salo want me to use if? And better yet, how did he find it?

I took the dagger into my hand and put it to my wrist.

"I love you too." I said quietly. I dug the blade into my skin and felt the pain go through my body. The blade began to glow the same ice blue as his eyes and left a mark on my skin that was the same color. pic 2 I looked down at the mark and realized that I had seen this same mark on Salo's shoulder, only 2 weeks ago.

I put the knife down and looked into the fire and went to sleep, dreaming about the snow.