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And sorry for the short chapter, it's getting ready for a big chapter next week!

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Chapter 4

I peeked open my eyes. Where was I? It was dark, and chilly, and I was hungry and had to...well, I hadto relieve myself. I pushed myself up, and willed my eyes to adjust to the lack of light.

How did I get here? I remember... mist? And a lake. A boat? Candles, everywhere, coming out of the water, and on the walls of dark corridors. And a man. I shivered. No not, a man, an angel, a heavenly being. Where was he?

"Angel?" I called into the velvet darkness, for it was darker in this room underground then in the blackest night of a moonless sky in the world above. I waited, for a few minutes. Or was it hours? Heartbeats, maybe? It was so easy to lose track of time in this hidden place. I got up, trying to recall where I entered from last night. I wandered in the general general direction of where I believed the door was. My hands reached out blindly for a doorknob, and crashed into a few objects. I hopednothing broke, for I knew the angel would be upset if I damaged his possessions.

My hands grazed a crack in the wall. I traced it, and it seemed to cut out a door. I skimmed my hands around it until I felt the curved brass of the door handle. I pushed down and out, nearly falling over as the door flew open. Why was I cursed to be so clumsy! I straightened myself.

Then I heard it. Music. It flowed through the walls. It filled every crevice. It was captivating, floating, then falling, and soaring once more. It was loud and commanding, and near silent and pleading, all at once. My legs moved of their own accord, carrying me to the source of the music, the room where we first entered this place.

There he sat, by the organ, fingers flying over the keys, caressing the ivory. He was seducing the most beautiful sounds from the organ, as its music wailed and begged, forcing my attention. I couldn't focus. I couldn't breathe, for the sounds took me elsewhere. Who was this man, this angel, who was so beautiful, that every sound he made, enraptured the soul. Why did he wear a mask to conceal such beauty?

I crept towards him. He was so engaged in making the music, he didn't notice my hand slip around until I gripped the smooth material of his white half mask. But by then it was too late. I ripped it off as he pushed me to the floor. I let out a shriek of terror. What possessed my angel to react this way?

"Why Christine?" he wailed to himself, hand covering the recently unmasked portion of his face, "Why did you do that? Why ruin this? Ruin everything? Anything! I would have given you anything! I would haven made you happy! But you! You little prying Pandora! You had to do the ONE THING that destroys it all!" his voice crescendoed as he mourned something I couldn't begin to understand.

"Angel?" I whispered, confused and scared of the fury and misery that filled my angel.

"How can you say that!" he began screaming at me, turning to face me, his hand still in place of his mask, "I am no angel! How can you not see!" His fury frightened me to no end.I whimpered, as he approached me. He clutched my arm in a death grip, "Everything! Gone! Even you! You recoil in horror from me!" I moaned as my arm went numb. He looked at me in shock and released me, backing away, and falling to his knees, letting out a choked sob. "Because I am a monster," he whispered to himself. I felt my heart shatter, seeing my angel dying inside like this.

I picked up the mask that had fallen to my feet moments ago. My arm extended, offering him the mask, hoping to right this wrong. He took it, our fingers brushing gently. He turned away from me and put it on. "Come," he commanded, not so angry now, but still very stiff."you must return. You will have been missed by now." He stalked towards the door. And so I followed him out.