Watching over Sleeping Beauty (Moments from Miranda's past)

Beauties Fall From somewhere far away she heard a high keening sound. Filled with grief and rage it seemed, and she wished it would stop. Gradually she became aware of her own rocking body, and the noises grew closer. Her arms were wrapped tightly around her abdomen, she was on her knees head lowered close to the ground and of it's own volition her body moved back and forth almost as if it remembered the motion of the cradle and was trying its best to comfort itself. The noise she realized was coming from her own clenched throat, and with a choked cry she stopped. She remained motionless for a long long while, lost in the battle raging in her mind. She had never come this close to sanity's edge before, never felt this kind of pain or rejection at all actually. It threatened to undo her. "I am perfect... he can't leave, he loves me! ...I'm too beautiful... no no noooooo..." Around and around in her mind the words danced, teasing her, taunting her. No matter how much she protested he was gone. Nothing in her world before this could have prepared her for the loss of the Blood Bond. She was loosing her battle for sanity, and her mind in a last effort to save itself let go. She was plunged into oblivion.

And so time passed.
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Unknown and unfelt, gentle arms lifted her from the ground.