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Light
How long was she unconscious, she couldn't say. But she must have been for some time, for the next thing she knew, the monsters and the masked stranger were gone and she was alone.
Light fell through the gaps in the forest canopy, warming her skin. It was a welcome warmth, because her entire body felt like it had been glazed with ice. Her chest ached, and her heart didn't seem to be pumping properly, as if an extra weight had been attached.
She sat up, picking up Rainfell, which still lay beside her. What had happened? Where had everyone gone? The attack itself had been random enough, but now they were all gone. What was the point?
Her limbs were slow to obey, but she stood, rubbing her eyes as she looked around. Terra and Ven were nowhere to be seen. Almost immediately, an alarm bell went off. Anything could have happened while she had been blacked out. For all she knew, the masked stranger went after them.
"Ven! Terra!" She pushed through the bush, searching for her friends. They could be hurt, lying unconscious on the forest floor just as she had been. Terra, she wasn't so worried about; he was just as skilled a fighter as her, if not more. No, it was Ven who earned the bulk of her worry; the boy was so inexperienced, so young. He was about as vicious as a puppy.
"Guys, where are you?"
"Aqua!"
Terra charged through the woods to the left of her, skidding to a stop. Panting, bent over, he wiped the sweat off his forehead. Just as she had expected, the eldest apprentice appeared unharmed, although his clothes were stained.
"Where's Ven?" she demanded.
"Inside talking to the Master," Terra said. "I've been looking for you for an hour or something. Where the heck were you?"
She quickly chose not to tell him the truth. No use in making him worry when she was perfectly fine. It was rather odd, she thought, that the masked stranger had just left her there. Why hadn't he killed her?
She sighed and rubbed her brow. None of this made sense.
"I was looking around for more of the monsters," she said evasively. "I guess we missed each other."
"Right." As gullible as Terra could be, she suspected he didn't buy that. Yet he didn't call her out on her lie.
"What were those things?" he asked. "I've never seen anything like them before."
"They don't look like heartless," she said. "Honestly, I have no idea."
He grunted. "I bet the Master knows. We should go ask him."
"Makes sense."
Terra, being an impatient teen, ran off through the woods without her. Of course, she knew her way home from here, but that wasn't the point.
Oh, well. It was just Terra being thoughtless, but that was just one of his many quirks.
She had just taken a step towards home when it hit her:
Terra hadn't mentioned a masked boy.
