Muro felt like he was drifting, somewhere between life and death. Everything was black, and it was so cold. He couldn't tell if there was anyone standing near him, but Muro felt like he was alone.
"Mai? Mai, where are you?"
Muro could hear his voice echoing hollowly all around him, as if there were a thousand others all calling out with his voice. Muro didn't like how small and afraid that made him feel.
"Mai!"
Again, only the hollow echoes answered him. Deciding that getting lost was better than standing around here listening to the echoing silence, Muro turned and walked off into the blackness surrounding him. Muro wasn't sure how long or how far he had walked; everything looked the same, but he was starting to catch glimpses of a far-off light.
Muro ran toward the light. As he got closer, Muro saw that the light was really two separate lights, one bright pink, the other a brighter purple. Then Muro noticed a faint red light. Muro held up his hands and looked at them, surprised to see that the red light was actually coming from him.
Sure enough, a faint red glow was running up and down his arms, curling around his fingers, and flowing back over his hands. Putting his hands down, Muro reached out to touch the purple light, feeling that there was something familiar about it. As he reached out his right hand to touch it, Muro saw that the purple light was reaching out to him, mirroring his own action.
When they touched, Muro felt as if he had grabbed onto a high-voltage line. It was like more energy than he could ever hope to contain was being pumped into his body without the slightest regard for this fact. Like his entire body was a live wire, greedily siphoning the extra power into himself. At the same time, Muro saw that the purple light was starting to fade. As it did, Muro's eyes began to resolve details of the purple light.
The first thing Muro saw was that the light wasn't really a light at all, but a person who was glowing purple, much like he was still glowing faintly red. As the purple light started to fade, Muro saw his own red glow intensifying, and at the same time Muro saw more and more of the person beneath the light. In fact, Muro was starting to recognize the person hidden beneath the purple light…