Place: A Bed

Person: SpellSong

Her body by now lay still as stone on the bed, though the machine were monitering were still monitering her. She was breathing in and out evey few seconds, and her heart rate was now riding the line just above completely gone. Around her was a slightly ominous glow, not bright enough to be noticable is a soft smokey grey, and not light enough to be completely over looked. It, though, seemed to add to the injured air of the room.

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Place: Somewhere Out There, but in our world?

Person: Casse

She moved a little, her eye lashes fluttering minutely before her eyes opened like small slit, too small for any normal person to notice, but enough to give her some of the view. It was a grand tactic sometimes, and had come in quite handy. She though opened her eyes warily as she picked her head up from where it lay on the floor, looking up and down.

She was in the long stream of blue light again. It seemed to be a few feet in diameter each way around her and went vertically on and on forever, making her wonder if she was moving in one of those directions or standing still. Out from that was a lake of rippling colors on and on as far as the eyes could see. Some of the colors dark some light, all blending perfectly in the rainbows around them.

She moved her right hand back to push up just to get an odd shudder and pulled the arm to her chest looking at the sickly two bumps on her arm, even as they seemed to be getting smaller already. Around her here was an onimous glow of red and black all over. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid, she thought. Her eyes still warily looking around in cadse anything she pop up, she just sat there in the midst of the unending glowing cyclider.

"You might as well just let me die."

She'd been here only but twice before so to be completely honest she didn't know it was, but she had her gueses and she hoped she was right. She though she have a long time ago though, the first time she eluded death but it stared her in the face. She remembered; everytime she closed her eyes.

Casse without even focus was a litter with flashes of picture and light. She had stood there, fearless, hopeful, simply holding her teddy bear and waiting there silently amidst the momentary destruction, her face alit by the colors of flames and their shadows. She only began to grow fearsome as minutes ticked away become too long in her eyes as the doorway melted under the caress of the fire, all too like a lovers, and they didn't come.

She began to wimper holding the teddy bear closer, her Nheart begining to race. They had to make it, noe coudl stop them. NO ONE!!! She was seaped with helpless feeling, as the cries of others around her, both of those in pain and those who had realized they'd lost others, and the heat of the flames began to scorch her heart already.

Suddenly a figure came rushing through the flames and shadows alike, and Casse's tears of confusion were stopped by an elated smile fo joy as her mother scooped her into her arms, holding her close still going in the opposit direction. Out of the blue they stopped, and her mother looked back, holding her tighter soo. Casse's eyes stayed on her mothers beautiful soft face, where her forehead had been against cheek seconds ago. Her mother looked torn as she looked at the child in her eyes and then back to the house as if someone had said something to her in her head, like people did around here thanks to all the telepaths.

She set Casse's feet down looking at her.

"Look precious, Mommy has to-"

Suddenly four loud beeps sounded from the house as her mother was still looking that way, and her mothers face contorted in a horror that startled her heart, filling her with a waves of confusion- for what could scare her mother? the next thing she felt was her small still 5 year old body slam the ground under her mothers, her mother over her completely, covering her completely, as the loud sound exploded into her ears overwhelmingly. The ground shook and things came flying at them with a battering rate, only hitting seconds later.

It took minutes for her to realize anything at all after the assualt of sound finished, because her mother hadn't moved yet, and if mommy hadn't moved yet there was always a reason. But after minutes upon minutes passed again, and no sound was anywhere. She wiggled a little, and riggled her way out of under her mom, turning her over, still holding her teddy bear by the arm.

Her mother lay there, and Casse had let go of the teddy bear silently, and pressed a hand agsint her cheek, moving her head a small bit. Her mother eye's fluttered open slowly, and her heart lightened considerably -everything would be fine now, and the world would turn and life would go back to nomal- and in her happiness, a childs pure undoubtful bliss, she overlooked the distant light, the dying light, in her mothers eyes, as her mother lips curled in a smile and se reached up to take Casse's face in her hands a few seconds.

"My angel....My little baby angel...." the voice was a bare whisper at the most only but her heart slowed the beat in her chest at her mothers touch and voice, but suddenly three or four seconds later a shudder ran through her mothers body and her hand fell and she just stopped moving again, just like the others. Just like the picni

"NO!!!!!!!!" Casse screamed clutching her hands around her chest and shoulders as her eyes opened again, tears touching her cheeks.

"STOP! I know that don't you think I know I should have died?!?!?!?!" she shouted to the rainbow water that spread out from around her and she sobbed on breathes of air, with waterless tears, tears which didn't fall outside but inside someone so long in control of themselves.

"Don't you think I know?"

"Don't you think-"

She looked off oddly. Something was pulling at her again. Something was calling her name, calling her soul name. The one only those two knew, because it was the link between the three of them, and only them.