Its...strange as I realized where I was and what it meant I wasn't scared, in-fact, I felt more calm then when I first appeared here. I felt at ease like I've been here many times before, but that couldn't be right why would I hang around an alley like this? What business did my past self have here? My thoughts were interrupted as I realized that someone else was here with me. I still did not feel threatened or uneasy, maybe I was wrong about this being the place I died, perhaps it was another alley somewhere else. I felt myself look towards the person that was there with me. I instantly realized that their face too, was blank just like the other people I saw in my newly refreshed memories.

The blank faces where a mystery to me. Why did all of the people in my memories have blank faces? Was Hanna's memory spell not strong enough to bring back faces and names only places? Hanna. I had completely forgotten about Hanna. What was happening in the physical world? Was he alright? `Worth had once warned me not to let him use to much magic at once and even though he did not explain why I did not question him. I knew it was important to not let Hanna overuse his magic. I saw the way the paper crane guide spell Hanna used on me seemed to drain the energy right out of him despite his reassurances that he was fine.

As I worried about Hanna and his magic use, I felt a sudden emotion rush over me. Why did all of a sudden I felt angry? It was then that I realized that the anger I felt was apart of the memory and that the blanked face person had caused it. What did they do that caused me to feel so mad?

I started to wish that I paid more attention to the memory other than the thoughts of magic. I felt myself calm a little before I turned to walk away my shoes squeaking on the concrete when something tearing into my back stopped me.
A new almost alien feeling washed over me. A feeling I have hardly felt since waking up from the sleep of the dead. PAIN. The new un-welcomed feeling quickly flooded my chest as I looked down to see what had caused the burning disturbance. What I saw stunned me.
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Being Hanna's partner means a lot of things, one of those is dealing with any kind of..strange monster that comes your way. Even dealing with innocent harmless things like nymphs or fairies can end with a disaster or a lost limb. This was learned the hard way when a angry gnome who refused to leave a yard practically bit my leg off. Not a very proud moment for any of us.

Another thing is being able to take care of Hanna. That includes dealing with Hanna's blood puking episodes and many and sad to say frequent injuries. I've seen him at his worst and each time I calmly carried him to get help, ignoring Worth's colorful curses and yelling as I carefully lay Hanna on the rigid cot wishing I could do more.

Each time I dismissed Hanna's apologies about ruining yet another shirt, stained from holding him close as his injuries bled.

But even now as I look back at all those failed missions and visits to Worth's I realize that they hardly bothered course I felt anger and worry when a mission went wrong or Hanna got hurt.

But to me all that mattered was helping Hanna. -
But... no how many times I carried a bloodied Hanna to help, or slammed the hammer into an enemy the sight of seeing the tip of a knife sticking out of my own chest made my stomach flip.
*Everything began to happen to fast. I stared at the intruding blade watching with shock as dark red began to seep out from the sides of it. Pain flared up in my chest spreading through out my body like fire. I felt the cool blade be jerked out harshly, a low pained grunt escaped my throat. My brain screamed at me to run but my body just wouldn't listen.*

I almost screamed as I felt the horrible tearing feeling in my back again as the blank face shoved the weapon into my back once more. I stood there staring blankly at nothing a look of what felt like shock still on my face. The once fiery pain now began to numb as I felt the blank face continue to stab me.

After what seemed like an eternity I felt myself start to fall backwards and for a split second it felt as if I was flying, but that soon came to an end as my head cracked against the dirty concrete ground of the alley. I stared up at the sky thankful when the pain finally numbed me completely.

Blackness started to creep into my vision as my hand scrambled for some kind of purchase. The blank face slowly stepped closer as my hand brushed up against the hem of their pant leg grabbing and hanging on with all the strength I had left. It was then I realized that I was holding my breath and my lungs ached as I sucked in hot humid air. As I laid there I felt something starting to drip onto my face and soon more drops started to fall as a low rumble of thunder signaled the start of a storm. The blank face did not move, even as the rain started to come down harder.

The blackness was slowly taking over my entire vision and I could feel myself loosing my tight grip on the now murderers leg. My fast choppy breathing started to slow and my body started to go limp.
The last thing I remember seeing was flashing red and blue lights.

~to be continued~

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btw the sentences with the * symbol is from when i posted this on another website so that i could tell people that i meant for the sentences to be short and choppy xD

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