Star Bright

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Tris the weatherwitch: Thanks!! =)

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Mair: LoL, I do that, too… XD Thanks for the compliment.

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Frisha: Hey, I can't be the only one who thought of it, you know. Anyway, she was really tired…

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horseluver: …just because you don't have e-mail DOESN'T mean you can't join the site!!! It's just an extra thing that makes my life easier XD (I'm very lazy…) ANYWAY, I said that Daine translated for Numair… but hey, I bet you I'm not the only one who does the whole 'Numy' thing. She was half asleep, ya know…

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//talk// Daine or animal talking

**im a poet

and I know it** poem

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Numair shook Daine to wake up, but she didn't. She didn't stir. "Daine, get up!" He called to her. "Wake up!" He said again. To her his voice was a faint voice calling to a stranger, not her. She fell back into the back of her mind, into false illusions stirred up by the potion.

**Falling into my mind

Forgetting bout the time.**

In her first illusion, Daine was with Numair sitting on their bed at sunset. He had a cold look in his eyes. "What's the matter?" she asked him.

"Nothing," he said calmly. He got out of their bed and left their room suddenly.

"Don't go," Daine called to him. "Don't leave me…" she said. She got up to follow him, but he kept her back with his magic.

"Don't follow me, Daine. Leave me alone." He said.

"But, Numy…" Daine trailed off.

"Don't call me that. I'm leaving." He said. Daine cried. How could Numair do this to her? She thought he loved her. He didn't anymore? She thought that everything had been so perfect…. She was wrong.

"Where? Where are you going?" She asked.

"Some where else. I can't tell you, you will just follow me. So stay here." He demanded. Numair never acted like this, so why the sudden change?

"But… don't you love me, Numair?" she asked. He didn't answer. "Tell me!" Daine cried. Numair just left the room. "Come back, please…" she whimpered.

**Thinking bout what you

And what you did to me, too.**

Daine sat in her bed. Alone. Numair had left her. But why? Where could she go? "Numair, why'd you do this to me?" she asked him, but he was too far off. Daine looked out side. She didn't see any bad weather, so she transformed into a hawk and flew out of the window after she opened it. She flew as high as she could so no one would see her. She'd go to see the Long Lake pack today before returning. That way, she could forget about Numair. Then she saw him, and a part of her urged her down to him. Numair didn't notice that it was her. Daine gave him an odd look, hoping to keep it that way. "Hello, what do you want?" he asked her. She didn't answer. Numair extended his arm for her to perch on, and reluctantly she did. He sighed. "I feel somewhat bad of what I said to Daine, but it's over now. All over." He said to the hawk. "I never have to deal with her again." He said, and it seemed happily to Daine. The Daine hawk flew off into the distance.

**Oh, You're unraveling me,

Strand by strand, don't you see?**

Numair shook Daine who was still unconscious. She still wouldn't wake. He didn't want to leave her side, but he knew he had to. He got up to go find his wake flower which he currently didn't have on him.

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Back in Daine's illusion, she was flying into storm clouds, but she didn't realize it. She just needed to get away from Corus for a while. Rain poured down on her so hard it pushed her to the ground. She transformed into a fox and ran off to find shelter to wait out the storm in. She soon found she was so exhausted that she couldn't shape-shift anymore. She heard dogs bark in the distance. That meant big trouble, and she knew it. She needed to get out of the area as fast as possible but her legs fell under her as the hunting dogs ran up to you. In a desperate attempt, she fought to transform back into her human form. Luckily by the time the hunters came she had transformed back into her human form and had run away.

**Oh, You're unraveling me,

You think it makes me happy?**

Now Daine had left this illusion. She had wings now, and she stretched them out. She fell into darkness and her loose feathers fell off. The dress she wore started unraveling in thick thread all around her. "No…" she screamed out. It was useless. A cold hand reached out to her and grabbed her. She struggled against it, but it was no use. It pulled her out of her body, and her body fell on the ground and all she could do is watch as it kept falling. Now Daine could see Numair on the ground. Her body fell on the ground right in front of him, but he just glanced at it.

"Oh, she died… her." He said empty of any sorrow for her death.

"Don't you care!?" Daine cried out to him as he turned around and left. "Why are you just leaving me there?" she asked him. Numair turned around to see her.

"You're still alive…?" He said. Daine nodded.

"Don't you care?" She asked him.

"Of course I do, magelet," he told her, and kissed her gently.

**I remember your old tender kiss

That's so different from this.**

There was something different with Numair this time as he kissed her. He had no passion in his kiss; it was so hollow. Daine pulled away from him. "What's the matter with you?" she whispered in his ear.

"Nothing, magelet. I'm all yours. All yours…" he told her. "But now I must leave." He said and left.

"Don't leave…" Daine cried out to him. A shadow walked up to her.

"Watch him. You are now invisible to him." It told her before disappearing. Daine didn't like the sound of that.

"What's the matter with my Numair?" She asked the air. "What's wrong with him?"

**Don't try to avoid me again,

I don't want it to be the end.**

Daine reluctantly searched for Numair. She stood outside one door, not wanting to open it. This was the last place he could be in. Her hand shakily reached for the door knob, but she pulled it back and sobbed. "Why don't I have faith in him?" she asked the shadow, who then came up.

"Open it." it demanded of her.

"But I'm afraid." Daine said. "That he isn't loyal to me…" she trailed off as the door swung open to reveal what Daine was scared of. Numair sat in bed with a beautiful blonde woman pressing her lips against his. "Noo!" Daine cried. "Numair, how could you!?" she said.

"He never loved you. Never." The shadow said cruelly behind her. "Never…"

**You're unraveling me strand by strand.

This time don't hold out you hand,**

Daine ran away from that sight, from the shadow. She didn't want to see it anymore… she wanted to get away from what she thought was the truth. She tripped over something laying on the ground, and passed out.

* * I won't take it this time,

It's not OK, not all fine.

You'll only pull it away,

I won't fall for it today.

Run away from all my pain,

Think of it as just a game.

I can't believe I still love you

But I know that I really do.

Doing it to me once again,

Now I know it is the end.

See on your face that cruel smile,

Was blind to it for a while.

Now I finally see it,

Know we don't fit.

Your empty promises are over, yeah.**

She slowly opened her eyes, but a pain over ruled her body. She let out a small yelp. Then she saw Numair. Not wanting to have to face him, she tried to run out of the room but Numair held her back. "Magelet, it's OK." He whispered.

"Then what were doing bedding that blonde!?" she cried. Numair was still calm.

"It was just an illusion, Daine, produced by a poison in a dagger." He told her. Daine took a deep breath, and then remembered it. The pain was then brought back to her attention.

"You love me, right?" She asked Numair.

"Always." He said and pulled her into a kiss, letting her forget the searing pain in her body.

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Ugh, I had to cut it short today. ^-^;; Sorry… well, just review!!! And join my dainexnumair site in my bio, which soon will get an ad-free message board!!!! (Cuz I'm making it. Isn't that awesome: AD FREE!!! Heh. I'm obsessed…)