Ok so its not that much longer, and I know it's been, like, since FOREVER since I last updated, and well… I'm SORRY! T.T Oh well, I still hope I have some readers out there, thank y'all! And remember reviews are always appreciated (GREATLY appreciated!).

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Dance of Pales

Don't give in…

It will all go... away…

The voices in her head were like an oasis in a never-ending desert. Yet, at the same time they were her destroyer. She longed for peace at mind, and prayed for sanity. Every fragment of existence cried out battle cries while screaming in pain. Her fingers shook uncontrollably, and the rest of her, unable to move at all. Still, she sat against that fateful door. She lost track of time and could barely remember anything except what she tried so hard to forget, which remained burned into her broken mind.

"Ja-…"

"…"

"Jalen, please, just please…let me die… I can't stand it any longer." Now death was even physically unreachable, but slowly still, approaching on it's own will. Stuck, unable to end her own life, but also unable to reach any source of food or water, her tormented ending was thriving on her life until the bitter end.

"I hate you, and all that you stand for- Life, you have taken prisoner of me and deprived me of all that I had. I have to fight, to think!" She grew louder with every word, until her rush sent her shaking hands flying behind her into the door. "Why?" She screamed till her voice cracked, and vanished as well.

"…"

Aria.

Suddenly she remembered, those beautiful eyes that saved her from her first demise. Her excessive angst blocked her sight from what was sitting right in front of her. Its aura glowed with magnificent radiance as she gave it its first notice in which had seemed like quite some time. All her screaming had put it in quite a fluster. Its soothing rays once again began to calm her.

"How do you do that?" She thought. She wanted to then fall asleep once more. Her eyes slowly shut as darkness took over. "No." She rose to her feet. "No, I will not let you win. I can't." Her strength to even just pick herself up slightly surprised her. She walked across the hallway and put her hand on the door.

Aria now on her shoulder cooed in disapproval as she began to open it.

… She stopped. She heard something.

"…"

She walked back across the hallway, slammed the other door open, took a step and feel to the ground. There, walking up the stairs where, sooner, Kira had lay foot, was Maria. The moment Maria's mind had processed what had just happened she ran and knelt beside her. "Are you all right?"

She received no response.

She checked her heartbeat to make certain whether she was even alive or not…

"I guess she is just unconscious…" Maria told herself, as she took Kira's frail body and sat beside a wall with her head resting in her lap. At last she had noticed Aria. "Oh, I didn't even notice you…" they just stared at each other for a while. "I imagine you know what happened. If only you knew how to speak…" She sighed. Though she only knew the existence of this girl for a few seconds, she felt a strange euphoria. She felt she knew her… Somehow. She then felt a strike of fatigue, and shut her eyes and began to sleep.

Aria, the last one awake, perched beside both of them, as though he was their protector, and eventually grew tired as well and took his own share of rest.

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Oh by the way, I revised the prologue, just an fyi. It's not much different, just changed a couple little things but it's better! Thanx for reading!