(Please remember I'm not English. Mistakes are for those who search for them. I usually find them while reading through it about the third time, but I'm too lazy to correct.)

It has been around two weeks since that incident and the group just rejoined a few days ago. Lloyd and the rest of the group made a pact with Shadow, the summon spirit of darkness, and went back to Sybak in order to rejoin with Zelos and Raine. The whole time Raine was usually in bed and Zelos cared for her. She had some highs and lows on her healthiness, but after Lloyd and the group met up with them, she felt well enough to continue traveling. The professor quickly found out that the Cruxis-crystal did not exactly do what she wanted to. More and more she lost her feelings, her emotions and was now followed by loosing her voice more and more. She talked to Zelos about it, but he seemed as clueless as she was, however Raine came to the conclusion that her keycrest was not working correctly, which was the reason why she didn't remove the crystal. That action would kill her, so she convinced the others to go back to Altessa to ask him about it. Well... Zelos was going to ask since Genis didn't leave her out of his sight since she came back.

That was also pretty much the reason why Zelos didn't even dare to get close to her, as much as he wanted to. In the others eyes he was still just a pervert and if he got a little private time with the lovely professor, she had other problems most of the time. She usually only was able to tell him how far her transformation was and what he should do in order to prevent the others from finding out before Genis started to ran up to them.

The chosen sat where Raine left him behind as he watched her being dragged away by her little brother. He would give so much just for having a few more hours alone with her. He still got hunted by this one night in his dreams and he longed for her. He never knew he could be so addicted to a woman. During their journey back to Altessa he tried to hold the others back so he had more time to think. Mithos was still with Altessa and if he found out how fast the crystal was taking hold of Raine, he would definitely take her. The only positive thing was that her transformation appeared to slow down since she started fighting against it. Sure she kept loosing words and her sentences became shorter and shorter, but he convinced the others that she just had a cold and should talk as less as possible. The group didn't really believe him, but as Raine approved and said something which sounded like '..y throat h...rts pretty bad...' they didn't question it again.

Sighing he got up from his place and went a bit deeper into the woods so he could think about what to do next. He could not tell Altessa about it, he would just... freak out or something. After all he was against any experiments including Cruxis-crystals and what Raine did was nothing other than a experiment.

"Where do you think you are going, chosen one?", a female voice asked behind him. Zelos wandered around inside the woods for just a few minutes, but he was still far away from the rest of the group.

"Just taking a walk. Why are you asking, Milady?", he answered smiling and turned around. The female figure stood tall and proud in front of him. It was the green-haired half-elf Pronyma, the head of the Grand Cardinals and Mithos' personal pet. It was disgusting how she obeyed him whatever it was and however he treated her. He once witnessed how small the woman could get when her lord was screaming at her in anger. Like a puppy who destroyed his masters favorite shoes and got schooled for it.

"Lord Yggdrasil is getting impatient. He asks where you have been. You should return by now."

Zelos crossed his arms behind his head and sighed softly.

"Sorry, beautiful, but there are some things that take time."

"The woman's transformation is far enough now. Lord Yggdrasil wants to take her to Welgaia."

So she was watching them. This could be a problem. If Mithos found out he was holding back the group from returning to Altessa he could get in serious danger.

"Not far enough, don't you think? The professor would never agree to go with Mithos, even if it depends on her life. She's quite stubborn you know?"

Pronyma let out a slight angry growl as she looked over to the chosen. She did not want that woman to come close to her master and for her it didn't matter how much he wanted her. Her lord was convinced that that half-elf was his big sister's reincarnation, however his real sister was still inside the Great Seed, sleeping an eternal slumber. Yggdrasil did not enter that room since his plans with that woman and now started to ignore her, his trustful servant, completely. Since she was beside Yggdrasil's side he always had listened to her advice and sometimes he even trusted in her more than in Kratos. But now her master only sent her to watch after Kratos so he did not do anything stupid and also after this little group to make sure they did return to Altessa. She did not want to do it, yet it was an order from her master. Still she hoped to get his attention if she performed well enough, to get just a few kind words. She was not even allowed to call him by his first name although she stood close to him.

"As far as I remember it was your order to make sure she is ready."

Controlling the chosen was quite easy. He just wanted to be released of his title and was willing to do anything and she was able to convince her lord to use him as spy, giving him what he wanted in the end or just killing him. One way or the other, he would be able to be released of his title.

"Hey I'm doing my best", Zelos said, pouting and leaning against a tree. "But Raine is smart."
"She fights against the crystal then."
"I guess you could say that."

"Then just persuade her."

"Easier said than done, chérie. The others don't leave her out of their sight, especially that little brat. If you need to hurry up you need to hurt her feelings. Too bad she hasn't anyone left, so that is out. And talking her into doing it won't do any good."

But the smile she gave him made him raise an eyebrow. This was not good. Every time the crystal dug deeper into her mana, Raine said to him when they were still at Sybak, she always had strong feelings shortly before it happened, so he was kind of guilty for causing her wings, however this would have happened sooner or later anyway. Both of them were relieved that none of the others knew about it.

"Uhm... did I say something funny?", he asked after Pronyma seemed to have gotten into thinking for a second.

"No. Make sure you and your group go to Exire within three days."

"What?" Wow that was a sudden change of subject. "Why? And most of all: How? We have no Rheairds at the moment."

"You should reach Mizuho within the next two days right? I will make sure they will get some Rheairds for you. Then you will head for Exire."

No he did not like this at all, but it's not like he had a choice. Mithos had him completely in his claws and as soon as he did something against his will he was done for. First it started out to be a deal with releasing him from the burden of being the chosen, but now this whole deal was based on his very life. And he enjoyed it as much as he could. He did not want to die.

Before could answer Pronyma was gone. Zelos still stood there for a few seconds before heading back to the others. How the hell was he going to convince them into going to Exire again?

Raine sat a few feet away with her book in her hands. The group started talking and laughing, but she didn't care. Not since she was not able to feel anymore. She was kind of happy that all of them were so careless and happy, but she preferred to take the time for her studies. You never stop learning after all. As she heard some wood break she looked up and watched Zelos coming out of the woods. He was gone for quite some time now, but that was nothing special. From time to time, all of them needed a little space and time for themselves.

"Where the heck have you been?", Sheena asked as he sat down beside her.

"Ah... sorry, sweety-pie. I just took a long walk and forgot the time. It's beautiful night after all. You missed me?"

He grinned and started flirting with Sheena again, which of course made her angry and started hitting Zelos again. The others laughed and even Raine smiled a little. It was really amusing how the two of them behaved.

After some time they somehow came to the subject of the summon spirits. Genis told them about which spirits existed since Raine wasn't able to.

"...and then there's Maxwell. He controls space as far as it is known, but no one knows where his shrine is."

"There is a rumor that he is somewhere in Tethe'alla", the assassin said and sighed softly. "That would be very great if we had that summon spirit on our side."

"Is he really that powerful?", Lloyd asked and looked over to Sheena. She nodded.

"He is said to be. And for him controlling space and material he could surely tell us more about the two worlds."

"I would really like to know how the two worlds exist like that...", Genis mumbled quietly and looked up into the stars.

Zelos listened to the group closely. Lloyd became terribly exited about Maxwell and wanted to make a pact with him. The chosen got into thinking again. In Meltokio he once heard that Maxwell was well hidden and also tended to change his location. He wasn't sure but maybe he could talk the group into getting to Exire for Maxwell.

"You know", he started talking to Lloyd and the others were looking over to him. It was unusual for him to get into discussions like that. "I heard that Maxwell can't be found in a shrine like the others. So he's not in a fixed position. Well not as fixed as Gnome for example."

"What do you mean?", the swordsman asked confused.

"Think for a second. Why does no one know about Maxwell's whereabouts? Maybe he can't be found on the earth."

Lloyd tilted his head to his side in confusion, tried to think and pressed a finger against his forehead. Man this boy was harder to deal with than the king himself. Something made Lloyd fall over and hold his head, whimpering in pain. A small stone rolled in front of Zelos' feet as he looked up.

"Auuuu~ Professor! That hurts! Throwing chalks after me is one thing but we're not in school", the brownhead whimpered and rolled on his side.

"Exire", Raine simply said as she looked over to Zelos, ignoring Lloyd's protests completely.

The aristocrat smiled in slight fear. The ultra-cool beauty could be very dangerous and scary if she wanted to be. And her aiming was deadly precise.

"Yeah. For it changing locations continually no one really knows what secret it holds. So maybe that's where Maxwell is."

Sheena scratched her cheek as she stared into the fire.

"Well it's worth a try I suppose. But how do we get there?"

Regal looked up from the ground.

"Do you think the information network in Mizuho could do something about the Rheairds?"

"Surely. But since we're in the middle of nowhere I don't think I could contact anyone here."

"Then why don't we just get there? It's just a few hours from here. When we get the Rheairds back we can also continue on to Sylverant", Lloyd interfered once again as he got up. He still hold his head in pain.

"Sounds like a plan", Genis said happily before he yawned. "But can we do this tomorrow? I'm tired."

"I guess we all are."

This was not a good idea. If they skipped Altessa only heavens knew how deep that parasite would dig into her mana. Raine looked over to Zelos. He knew about the crystal and that it was about to consume her, so why did he suggested Exire? Not only was it a waste of time because they did not know if Maxwell was actually there, but all of them knew that her mother was still there. The last time the group decided to go to Exire she resisted and talked them into going to Altamira instead, even if she despised this city more than anything. But now she couldn't even talk them out of this. She was barely able to talk a few words in a row and all of them were fixed on Maxwell right now. She had to think of something this night.

As all of them lay on the ground in order to get some sleep she leaned against the stone she was sitting before and closed her eyes. If this kept up she couldn't do anything anymore. Even now she had to resist the crystal with all she had, which was especially dangerous in battle. She could barely concentrate on her magic, however it was still stronger than ever before. Luckily being a woman she was able to focus on more than one thing at once, while her main focus was to keep the crystal's mana out of her own.

"Goodnight, sis", she heard her little brother, who lay down beside her, his head in her lap.

"Goodnight..."

Said, done.

One and a half day later the group arrived at Mizuho, where one of the inhabitants walked right over to Sheena.
"Tiga wanted to talk to you. He said he had something for you."

Without any delay the group went to the chief's house and inside, where said Tiga already awaited them. Raine stayed outside. She didn't feel well and she wanted to take some fresh air. Since she started to actually fight the crystal attached to her, stopping it from taking over more of her, she got used to the slight sick feeling, but it seemed that she was able to slow it down a lot. Not stopping it completely, but at least she could still speak or else she most likely would have lost everything up to now.

Inside Tiga just handed over the wingpack over to Sheena.

"We found it inside the woods just yesterday. There are some rheairds are in there. We are not sure if it is yours, but you can surely make good use of it."

"Wow that's what we came for. Just awesome!", Lloyd said happily, grinned and took the wingpack from Sheena. He looked inside. "Alright! Maxwell here we come!"

"That is... strange...", Genis said and crossed his arms. "We only got here to ask for the rheairds and just like that you find them in the woods? Just like that? I thought they are expensive."

"Maybe someone lost them."

"Don't be an idiot, Lloyd. Genis is right. No one just looses rheairds and doesn't look for them", Sheena meant and Zelos pulled her close, lay one arm around her.

"Aww come on, Sheena. Don't be such a grinch. All that matters is that we got them right?"

The chosen found himself on the floor again, a bump at his head, but he expected that.

"Well I hate to admit it, but I guess you're right."

Good. The less they asked, the less trouble he got. Zelos actually was curious what Pronyma had planned, however the same time he was afraid of finding out. The half-elf obviously had something against Mithos' plan to turn Raine into an angel, but as far as he knew her, she would never dare to disobey her master's wishes. Sad. Pronyma would make a good ally.

"Before you go", Tiga interfered while the others already talked about some strategies against Maxwell. "Why don't you stay for today and head of for Maxwell tomorrow? If it is the summon spirit you are talking about it will not be easy. You should only go after him fully recovered."

All of them agreed. Great now he had to wait even longer. Not that it actually mattered, but anyway. He went outside again where he found Raine sitting by the well and staring down.

"Hi there beautiful. What are you doing?"

She lifted an eyebrow on him and he grinned a little. He quickly looked around so no one was spying on them. Not unusual for a ninja-village, but since he did not hear or see someone he sat down beside her.
"Sorry. I forgot. How do you feel? You're voice better?"

She shook her head, mumbling "worse". She did not really sound very healthy, more like she just got a bad hit on her throat. So he wouldn't get a conversation out of her. It was difficult to communicate with someone who couldn't speak. Or at least not that much.

"They had some rheairds. So tomorrow we will go to Exire."

Raine stared at the well again, bit her tongue. Not that she actually felt that, but she did it anyway. She needed to tell him that she didn't have much time left, at least that's what she thought. For some minutes she thought about a way, but then she remembered Colette when she lost her voice. Carefully she took his hand and hoped he would get it. Zelos was smart, but not really the fastest at thinking.

As she took his hand he looked at her in surprised. Then she started to draw something... letters maybe? W...H...A... oh he got it. She was spelling.

'What about Altessa?'

"What about him?"

He earned some grim looks as he nervously smiled at her. Of course he didn't forget, but he couldn't tell her that.

"Oh right. Well I kinda forgot about that. I would go there myself tonight, but that would be suspicious."

Sighing she gripped his hand a little harder. Man this woman had strength. On the outside she was a soft flower, breakable, but dear Martel she was tough. Good thing for him she wasn't using black magic or she would have fried him a few times now.

'I can not wait.'

"I know. I'm sorry I suggested that. It's just that it seemed like a good idea. If we have Maxwell on our side we have better chances against Mithos."

She let her hand ran through her hair. He had a point there. They had to raise their chances against Mithos if they had to face him. But still she was running out of time. Well since she lost her emotions it became much easier to resist the crystal since her emotional distress seemed to speed up the process.

"Everything will turn out fine. You think you can eat something today? Tiga surely will get us some dinner."

Shaking her head slightly she looked at him and stared down again. Then she got close to Zelos, let her head rest against his shoulder. She heard him lay an arm around her and pulling her closer, but she was quite unhappy that she couldn't really feel it and she missed it. She could smell him, this distinctive, quite flowery smell around him, heard his breath and his heartbeat. He almost smelled like roses and lilies. Since she still hold his hand, which has closed around hers right now, she carefully opened his again, continued spelling.

'Thank you, Zelos.'

"For what?"

'Everything you did for me.'

"Well you did a lot for me too, so we're even."

The professor looked up at him in surprised. What did she ever do for him, beside hitting him and schooling him a lot. Zelos laughed.

"I think you're the only person who likes me for what I am, not what I pretend to be. Even thou you know about almost everything I plan you still accept me."

'Almost?'

"Well we all have our secrets. I'm sure you have a lot, too."

She smiled a bit and looked at his hand, began drawing small circles on it. Zelos took it and carefully kissed her fingers softly. He enjoyed this a lot. Just sitting beside her and... well talk was a big word... talk-write with her. How badly he wanted to kiss her right now, but that wouldn't made any sense. She wouldn't have felt it. Maybe he should reconsider going to Exire with the group, but he doubted that they would have this kind of luck again. But for now he just enjoyed being with Raine, holding her close. She was a wonderful woman. Perfect for a wonderful man like him.

"I like you a lot, Raine", he whispered, closing his eyes and put his head on hers.

Raine felt her face getting a bit red. Strange. She was not supposed to feel embarrassed, yet she was. Maybe her feelings weren't completely gone? That would explain why she felt so comfortable, even though it was Zelos she was sitting here with. She just closed her eyes and held his hand a little closer. Right now she kind of wanted to take this crystal off, feeling his warm skin and his breath in her hair like she did just some days ago in Sybak. Raine never expected to actually wish for something like that. Before all this happened between them she just wished for all her feelings, her memories and everything to go away, so they could not hurt her anymore. All the pain the humans and elves gave her would just fade, but now she realized that this pain was still a part of her, just like this positive feelings she got around her friends made her an individual.

'I like you too', she wrote on his hand and smiled a little.

As it went dark the two of them parted and Zelos stood up. He did not want to but they could not risk getting caught like that.
"We should go inside. The others are surely looking for us."

Raine agreed and the both of them went inside.

The next morning Lloyd was the first to get up. Well after Raine that is who didn't sleep for nearly a week.

"Good morning, Professor Sage", he said as he got to her. At least her student was already dressed. Lloyd tended to leave his jacked and walk around in only his thin, black muscle-shirt, which looked disgusting in her personal opinion. Sure some people like Colette enjoyed that, but she surely didn't.

"Morning", she whispered. Her voice was really almost gone. She stared back into her book as she heard the others getting up, too, and they met up in Tiga's house. They spent the rest of the morning preparing. Raine, Genis, Presea and Regal went to the shop, bought some gels, a few pens, paper, food, some medicine (you never knew), water and some other stuff needed. Zelos, Lloyd, Sheena and Colette went to a traveling salesman, who sold them some armor and new weapons. After dinner they left the village and Genis unpacked the rheairds. He kept them since everyone still thought it was Lloyd who had lost them in the first place.

"Alright! I'm stuffed and I'm ready for action", Lloyd said happily, getting on one of the machines. The others followed his example and they followed the swordsman.

"Do you even know where we need to go?", Sheena nearly screamed over to Lloyd. The wind was very loud and made it difficult to understand each other while flying.

"I thought you know?", said swordsman half-asked back and looked around.

Typical Lloyd, Raine thought. Always acting before thinking.

Luckily she showed Regal where Exire was supposed to be located during this time.

"It should be close to Flanoir by now", Regal shouted from the back, so they all flew in this direction, found said floating city close to the Flanoir-continent. The city was just made of platforms, so the houses were very small and you could look over them easily. But this time there was something strange. It smelled... burned? It was faint, but still there.

The group landed on one of the platforms and now even the human part of their group started to wonder.

"It smells like ash", Presea pointed out. It was easy for her to tell that she was disturbed by this particular smell. After all her home village was burnt to ashes.

"Yeah. Let's find out where this is coming from. I have a bad feeling about this."

So they went through the city. As usual, the half-elves avoided the group, mainly because most of them were humans. Just as humans hated half-elves, said half-elves hated humans, but they were much more tolerant up here in Exire.

"Raine!", she heard a male voice shouting and a familiar looking man walked up to them. It was the very half-elf who took care of her mother, so she seemed a bit confused that he immediately walked up to her. "I didn't expect you so soon, but... something has happened. It's about your mother."

"What about mum?", Genis interfered, walking up beside his sister.

"I guess you should look yourself. However..."

Raine stopped him from talking. She heard enough. As much as she despised her mother, even though she knew the whole truth why she was abandoned, it was still her mother. So she passed the man and the rest of the group and went through the small city, right to the house a bit outside on a separate platform where her mother resided. Or at least used to. Where the house used to be, only a black spot was left, the house next to it was slightly burned, but still intact. As she suddenly stopped Genis ran against her legs.

"Raine why..."

Then he also saw the spot his sister was staring at. So that was where the burned smell came from. The small house their mother used to live in was burned to its ground. Only a few burned pieces of wood lay on the ground. Genis felt something within him break. Sure he only knew his mother for a very short time, but still it was his mother. He felt tears burning in his eyes and looked up to his sister. She just stood there, emotionless and staring on the spot. Their friends came to their sides and also looked on the burned place.

"What happened here?", Regal asked in shock, turned around as the half-elf joined their company.

"We don't know", he said and looked around. "Two days ago, the house suddenly went on fire and before we could act it was destroyed."

"What about my mum? What happened to her?", Genis screamed and ran over to the man. He shook his head.

"We didn't find her. She wasn't in the city, but we didn't found anything in the house either. Only this..."

The man gave a little doll he had in his hands to Genis. The little half-elf looked at it and started crying. It was his mother's doll she always confused with Raine. He looked over to his sister. She was still standing there, looking over her shoulder down to the puppet, but she didn't seem to be struck by this as he was.

"Professor?", Lloyd finally asked as he got close to Raine. He lay one hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"

She didn't answer. Instead she turned away, walked quickly in one direction, away from the group. Genis wanted to get after her, but Presea hold him back.
"She surely wants to be alone..."

Raine's quick walking increased to running. No this couldn't be. Her mother, dead? This was just not possible. Sure she was confused, but not that dumb to blow herself up or set herself on fire. She always believed that somewhere she would remember her, that somehow they could be one family again. But this was over, her dream of having her family again. Her father was deceased caused by a illness, her mother dead because of fire. Why did they come here? And why all of the sudden?

While she was running she crashed into some people, but got up really quickly and continued her path, which lead nowhere. She didn't feel the pain caused by her crashes, was blind to the world around her. She just needed to get away quickly. The cries by the other half-elves meant nothing to her, just the pain that she felt inside. Right now she desperately clamped onto the last to things that meant to her, that prevented her to go insane and to loose herself. Raine felt the shadow of the crystal digging its way into her soul, making it hard to breath, but still she resisted.

When she finally found the end of her way, a lonely platform at the far west of the town, she stayed on the edge, just looking down and watching the earth passing by. Screaming, shouting, crying, all the things she wanted to do right now, she couldn't do. All because of that thing. But knowing she couldn't, wasn't allowed to take it off. She cursed the day she listened to Zelos...

Why did he have to suggest to come here? Why couldn't they just go to Altessa first? Then at least she would be able to cry now. Her mother was most likely dead and she wasn't even able to cry a single tear for her. She hated her for what she did, but she still loved her. Virginia loved her and she loved her back in return. It pained her so much inside, her whole body seemed to burn in anger, sadness, despair, but still she couldn't show it.

"He sure tricked you good", she heard a familiar voice say. As she turned around, Raine saw Pronyma. What was she doing here? Did Mithos send her?

"Surprised to see me? I am sure you are."

Raine wanted to take a step back, but already standing at the edge, she stayed where she was. She could have easily fly if she needed to, but she preferred not to. She never flew before and wasn't so sure how this thing worked.

"You don't need to be afraid. Lord Yggdrasil ordered me to watch after you and to prevent you from getting harmed. Especially from that idiot chosen."

Still not convinced, but definitely curious she stepped one step away from the edge. If she got dizzy now again, she could most likely fall.

Pronyma smiled a little as the half-elf seemed to calm down a bit. Everything went as planned up to now. The green-haired woman just waited for an opportunity to talk to Raine alone. Actually she was not really eager to hand over the woman to her master and was jealous that she got his whole attention, but maybe, just maybe if she was bringing her to her master, he would praise her, appreciate her work. It was one of her secret dreams.

It seemed that woman tried to say something or rather asking something. By guessing Pronyma thought she was referring to her last sentence.

"What I mean by protecting you from Zelos? Think about it. Why did he bring you here in the first place? He knows about what is happening to you and that my Lord likes you like you are a family member."

Raine watched as Pronyma closed in, however she stayed alerted. Pronyma could not be trusted, but she would also never disobey Mithos' orders as far as she could tell. Yet her questions made her think. Zelos KNEW that time was a dangerous factor for her. She lost more and more of herself, even though she fought the crystal with all she could. But no he wouldn't do that. He wouldn't betray her, would he? After all she meant something to him...

"What did he tell you? That he cared for you? He's a good liar after all."

He wasn't lying to her, was he? There was nothing in it for him if he lied to her. Unless...

"It's really pathetic you fell for the same trick again."

She felt another pain pierce through her heart.

For Pronyma it was really easy to guess what she was thinking right now. Although angels did not feel any physical pain, emotions were still present, provided that they are strong enough. It was also the key for her plan to rip down the last piece of resistance that foolish woman had against the crystal. When she was done, this pathetic creature would be nothing different from a puppet and then it was easy for her to take her to the tower of salvation. She was watching Kratos ever since he took the cover as mercenary and accompanied Colette on her quest, so she knew about the trick the human used to prevent his identity being uncovered. Love made blind, so they say.

"Zelos wanted to blackmail Lord Yggdrasil to release him from the title of chosen of mana. If he wasn't, that stupid chosen wanted to just take that crystal from you, knowing that this would surely kill you."

She watched the silver-haired woman carefully lay her fingertips on the place where her Cruxis-crystal should be. Pronyma stood before her, looking down on her. She was a bit taller than Raine, but that didn't matter at all. The woman before her was looking down to her feet and didn't really seem to recognize her being so close.

This just couldn't be, could it? He just got close to her so he could blackmail Mithos? How could she have been so stupid? Again? Why did she fell for the same trick twice?

"What did you think why he got so close to you?"

Raine didn't want to hear it. She could not bear this. Not again.

"Zelos is just a selfish bastard. An emotionless creature, like all humans."

She wanted to scream at Pronyma at this point. Tell her to stop, to take it back. Zelos, he...

"Did you really think he loves you? For him you are only a toy."

Those words echoed in her mind. She thought... she... they...

I care for you. I'm on your side.

"He never cares for anybody. Just for himself. He just wants an easy life."

I really like you.

"Zelos once told me he wants to share it with you little assassin-friend. Sheena wasn't it?"

A single tear left the corner of her eye, ran down her cheek. Every inch of her body ached, the water burned on her skin and hand fell down her side. She knew it. But why should she care anymore?

Raine let the pain run through her body as her world became dark...

tbc

(I am so sorry I rushed through some parts like that, but I finally want to get to the fun parts I have in mind :D)