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Unknown POV

No! Save me! Somebody help! I can't breath! I try to yell. My body has become so numb….. so cold. I can't feel anything anymore. Wake me up, someone! It's so dark. Am I still here? I know I'm not dead. Being dead wasn't part of the deal. The deal to end my suffering. My eternal loneliness and solitude. I see him coming! He promised me that I would no longer feel so alone! He turns to me. 'You cheated me!' I try to yell. But I can do nothing. The world around me is black. A black nothingness. I am straight up, like a human. I can still feel my body, but I can't see anything. My golden eyes are still shut. I know my fur is pure white, so I can imagine what I looked like from the outside. I am straight up, head pointed up…. I think.

My white fur sticking to my cold skin. Ah! I can't stay on a straight thought. It's like my mind is slowly unraveling. There he is! I see him coming! He smiles at me. "I see you're starting. We made a deal. I would make you stop feeling so alone. And that's exactly what I plan to do." He then leaned in and pressed his cold black tongue onto my mouth. Then my eyes opened.

A shower of golden light poured from her eyes and in a blink it all happened. The mysterious trader vanished with the golden light. Shiatra's golden eyes closed. Her white body curled so her head was pressed down into her bellyfur. Her limbs curled around her body and the darkness completely consumed her. Then Shiatra was lost to the dark.

Calemey's POV

Ugh! Not again! My mentor wants me for nothing other than to be his little errand boy! 'Go get me some more juniper' he says. 'Go get me some more cobwebs' he says. I want to see some magic! "Calemey, where are my cobwebs?" That would be my mentor calling, again. My mentor is Falyoian, the pack Shaman.

got up from my bedding and turned to our supply log. It was just a hallow log on the ground with our medicine supplies, and his magic supplies. I looked up. The sky was gray. It would start raining soon. I always loved the rain. But That doesn't matter to me today. I will do some magic, soon.

I padded back into our den and dropped the cobwebs in front of Falyoian. He smiled his wise smile down at me. "Come, sit." He waved his paw over a seat on the ground. I rolled my eyes. It was another one of his rambles. I turned my eyes down to the grass I was playing with in my paws.

Then a sharp pain hit my face. I whirled in pain and rolled on my side on the ground. I got up to see Falyoian on his feet and glaring at me. His utterly grey fur was bristled and his dulled grey eyes were glaring fiercely at me. "You pay attention to me! You keep complaining about not doing any magic, well this is your chance to prove to me you can handle the magic! Now I am going to tell you about the first step into magic. Now sit up, you arrogant fool!" I scrambled to my paws and looked eagerly at my mentor. He sat down calmly. I could hardly hold my excitement as I tried to compose my face. But my tail wagged uncontrollably. "I have to tell you about the first thing everyone learns first, the thing all magic goes through before becoming a real physical thing." He lost me here. I never knew anything about this.

"The spirit world." He told me. My tail stopped immediately. The spirit world? Wasn't that a thing to be feared and avoided at all costs? Didn't things happen to animals that messed with the spirit world? I could have sworn he was reading my mind because next he said "The spirit world can be dangerous, but it is a part of life, and is required to work magic." He had my full attention now. "Calemey, the spirit world holds many creatures. Some are meant to watch over us, others try to harm us. But none can touch us or talk to us. The only way to make contact from the spirit world is through magic." I learned in a little, listening intently. "If we want to truly torture a creature, we would strip their soul from their body. If we do this, their soul will be forever trapped in the spirit world. The ability to do this was taken from you and me. So now only the Elders have it."

Then he stood up. "So. Now I want you to go and gather more juniper while I take a nap." He turned and padded back to his bedding. I narrowed my eyes. Of course. I should have seen this coming. I turned and walked away. I padded to our log and gathered his scrying stone. A small diamond. I Picked it gently up in my mouth as I carried it out into the deep forest.

I stopped at the lake. It was always so peaceful here. And now that the sun was blotted out by the clouds, which was casting a grey look too the place. I didn't like this so much, but it was good for scrying. I placed the stone on the ground and looked deep into it. I didn't really know what to do, I had never scryed before. I then saw flashed of black and gold, then the world went black. I fell back and cried out. My eyes! My eyes! They burn! I can't see! Ah! What's happening to me?! This pain! Where's it coming from?! I hurled myself into the lake. Trying to wash the burn away. I missed. And I fell to the ground, and everything went black.

When I woke I saw a blue light. It was a blue ball of light. I just looked at it. It seemed to look back at me. I felt the grass beneath my paws to be sure I wasn't dreaming. The grass felt real, not like the rough scratchy grass that are normally in my dreams.

The light… ball… thing… seemed to dance across the grass, taunting me. Chase me. I took a step back. Woah…. Where'd THAT come from?! Chase me. …. This was getting to freaky for me. A telepathic ball of light. I MUST be dreaming. Chase me chase me. Ok. With a talking ball of blue light. I did the most sensible thing. I calmly stood up, turned around, and ran blindly into the dark patch of woods.

Ok. Maybe it wasn't the MOST sensible thing I could've done, but hey. It was a ball of talking blue light. What would you have done?!

See? It isn't ALL depressing. Calemey's POV will be funny at times, or at least not as depressing, Rakita's POV will be sad and miserable for now.

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