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It was bitterly cold.
She was lying on the cold earth panting. Snow was lying all around her and her mind was foggy.
Her headd was pounding. It felt as though she had hit it when she landed.
Landed? Where was she?
She slowly opened her eyes to the sky and saw a tall figure looking down at her. "W-where am I?" she asked uncertainly.
"You're home." The mysterious man said as he lifted her up into his arm like a bride.
This is nice she thought suddenly feeling a tickle at her face. She opened her eyes after closing them for a moment and saw brilliant white feathers.
This man is an angel. She thought as she slowly drifted back to sleep.
He's my Guardian Angel.
Her eyes were heavy and she felt like she had been sleeping for a long time. She tried to open them, but they wouldn't move.
She could hear voices all around her and could feel a strange tug at her heart. It was as though her heart could feel something that she didn't know about. It was as though it had a mind of its own.
The presence of the room grew quieter as someone told them to stop talking so loud. She heard a voice say; "Shh, she needs her rest. Now get out of here and I'll tell you when she is awake."
That's when she drifted back into a long sleep once again.
She was in a bad mood walking around the castle. She had a horrible head ache that had been plaguing her for the past couple of days.
She had to find Van. She had to tell him something she saw just a few minutes ago.
She raced through the newly re-built castle until she had to stop and catch her breath. She should stop running. The guests that were staying in the castle wouldn't like to see one of the inhabitants running around. They would start to panic.
She turned a corner to where the hallway was where the library was located and slowed down. Van's study where you could usually find him reading up on some Fanelian history was inside the library. There was a large wooden door hidden in the back of the library that had all of Van's favourite books in it. It was like his personal library.
She walked into the library and looked around quickly.
There was no one there.
Of course there wouldn't be. She thought pushing the eerie feeling away. There wouldn't be anybody in the library at this hour of the night.
She walked to the back of the large library and towards a hidden door. She opened it not even bothering to knock and met with the man she had been looking for.
"Merle?" Van asked looking up from the book he had been reading. "What are you doing here? It's late…"
"I should be asking you the same thing!" She said putting her arms in the air with exhaustion. "Don't you ever sleep?"
Van was tired and had been staying up lately. He couldn't get any sleep and so he had been coming to his study every night to get his mind off things.
There was an awkward silent while Merle looked at Van crossly and Van just looked around the room.
"Well…? Is there something you want?" Van asked trying not to be rude. "Oh yes! I completely forgot!" She yelled forgetting why she was there in the first place. She was too used to catching him in his study when he should be getting some rest.
"You must come with me. There some…thing I have to show you." She said taking the book out of his hands and laying it on his desk. "Merle, can't it wait for the morning? I was just about to get some sleep…" Lie… "No it cannot! Come with me now or I'm going to have to force you." She said stiffening and showing him her claws.
Van sighed. He was too old for these childish games now. He was almost twenty two now. He was the king of a whole country and he shouldn't be running throughout the halls while he had guests in his house. They would think that there was something wrong.
He stood up and Merle grabbed his wrists and pulled him towards the doors. Once she got outside of the library she started to run. Van was confused to why she was in such a rush. There couldn't have been something too important or she would have told him right away. That or a guard would have told him.
They had been running for about five minutes when Van started to realise where they were going. They were heading towards the medical wing. Well- it wasn't exactly a wing. Just a large room with three beds in it, where they usually put people in when they were injured or sick.
Van started to panic now. Was someone sick? Is that why Merle wouldn't tell him because she was too sad? Had someone died?
Van started running faster when he came to the door of the medical wing. Merle panting right behind him. He slowly opened the door and his heart stopped as he saw Millerna, Dryden and Allen all look over at him with pained faces. Chid was right behind them kneeling over a bed that was occupied by someone he couldn't see. He slowly made his way over to where they were standing not daring to look at the bed where there was a person lying, maybe dead.
He looked at Allen who was now standing right bedside him with confused eyes. He patted Van on the shoulder and turned out of his way so Van would be able to see the woman lying in the bed clearly.
When he saw her, a lot of things passed through his mind so quickly that he could hardly think straight. He stumbled over to the bed and Chid quickly got out of his way.
This woman he had been dreaming about off and on for over a month. It was this woman that had kept him from sleeping because it hurt too much to see her when he couldn't have her. It was this woman who he had taken five years to get over.
And now she was back.
HAHAHA. Cliff hanger! Sorry this chapter is so short but I wanted to leave it here to leave you with suspense! I'm about to start the next chapter now so hopefully it will be up by the end of today! I stayed home sick today so I could do this so that's what I'm going to do. I hope you likes it! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. REVIEW.
It's actually like the only way I'll write another chapter. Who wants to write for nobody? NOT ME.
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