Chapter 2: Away From Me
Evanescence

(Song lyrics modified by deletion)

I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all that I have created

Kyra woke in the morning oblivious to her night-time visit. She sat slowly, stiffly; still healing from her many wounds. It was true that the pain was somewhat numbed from the 'purification', but she could still feel: The myth that all pain left was just another lie of the Necromongers.

A surge of hate and self-disgust filled her: She had willingly converted. Just like she had willingly joined with the mercs who had then betrayed her and slaved her out. She had created this hell for herself, as well as the pain she had forced on others. Her only goal had been to live, to save herself. Now she wondered if it had been worth it. The price she paid for her life had been to destroy everything that made life worth living.


I'm longing to be lost in you
(away from this place I have made)
Won't you take me away from me

She left her room and walked to the front of the ship to find Riddick sitting at the controls, watching the stars dance around them through his silver eyes. She longed to be able to sit with him and once again watch the beauty of the stars: He had taken her from the Underverse; that hell; but could he save her from herself?

Crawling through this world as disease flows through my veins
I look into myself, but my own heart has been changed
I can't go on like this
I loathe all I've become

Days past quietly, as Kyra remained silent and Riddick gave her space. Words did not come to her lips anymore. She felt sick, diseased; changed. She hated the feeling of her own skin.

I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all that I have created
I'm longing to be lost in you
(away from this place I have made)
Won't you take me away from me

Lost in a dying world I reach for something more
I have grown so weary of this lie I live

Kyra fought herself; fought everything she had become. She was a cancer to her own soul. She felt so lost; trapped in a dying body; a dying soul. She reached for anything that could pull her out.

Her eyes would turn to Riddick in hope then would turn away as she realized the pain, the danger that she had put him through. All he had sacrificed for her: He had gone to hell and back for her. The heavy weight of that guilt nearly crushed her; she could no longer put him through this, no matter how much she longed for him; for his presence. This was her world; her life and torment.

She must leave him to save him.

When they got to where they were going: She would leave.

I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all that I have created
I'm longing to be lost in you
Away from me