"There now…" Moon murmured as she sat back on her heels. "It's as clean as I can get it…"

Faylinn turned her body so she could look in the mirror over the sink and stared at the face she saw. The blonde hair was short now; it barely brushed the bottoms of her ears. She lifted her hand and tried to tuck her bangs behind her ears but they slid free and fell across her left eye; and her fingers sat there, half curled, uselessly, as she tried to open and close them.

Moon smiled at her sadly. "Give it a week hon… It'll grow out some."

"And what about my hands?" Faylinn snapped as she glared at her hands.

Moon placed her hand carefully on top of the elf's hand. "I will see what I can find to heal them."

Faylinn stared at Moon. "Why are you so nice to me?"

Moon smiled, tilting her head to one side lightly. "Well…" she mulled, "that would have to be because I know you're a good person, and why would I turn you away if you needed help? You haven't done anything wrong."

"I've killed people. I'm a threat to you and your family."

"Oh really?" She stood up and put her hands on her hips. "If you're that much of a threat then attack me."

The elf girl blinked. "What…?"

"You heard me, attack me. If you're so dangerous and you kill people for fun then you could easily kill me now. Well here's your opportunity, I won't even fight back."

Faylinn gaped up at Moon then slumped on the toilet.

"That's what I thought…" Moon sighed and sat down again on the floor. "I know what it's like to be an orphan… I know how hard it is to be alone…"

"You don't know anything…" Faylinn hissed.

Moon stood up. "Let me show you something…" she pulled mist from the bathroom window and carefully set Faylinn on it. Opening the door a crack she peeked out and smiled. "Perfect…" She quickly threw open the door and led the cloud into a bedroom. "Hold on tight." She whispered as she ripped open the window and directed the little cloud out, following quickly herself.

"Where are we going?"

"You'll see." Moon smiled and spread her wings wide, taking off into the sky; the cloud carrying Faylinn following close behind her.

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"WHAT?!?" A man yelled. "What do you mean they're GONE?!?"

"Hiei calm down." Kurama murmured. "They can't have gone far."

Hiei growled and slammed his fist into a tree, sending a large crack up through its trunk. "I swear she is such a pain in my ass!" He sat down and laid his sword against his shoulder, still growling.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm waiting for her to come back so I can give her a piece of my mind."

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"Here we are." Moon said as she landed carefully in the middle of the ruined city.

"Where are we…?"

"This was my home…" Moon answered as she walked slowly through the ruined city. She lead the way to a river that cut the city right in half and followed it up to a dilapidated temple. Inside was a statue of a beautiful woman with large wings. Her hands were cupped where water poured down around the sides to splash against the basin at her feet then stream out to join the river outside.

"Who is that?" Faylinn ask as she stared up in awe at the statue.

"That is the protector or my people, our mother, Selene."

Both girls stare at the statue of the forlorn protector in silence until Faylinn turned to Moon.

"What happened here…?" She murmured, almost as if she was afraid to break the silence that washed over the temple.

Moon blinked and turned back to the elf sitting on her cloud. "I was born."

Faylinn stared at Moon in quiet shock. "What do you mean…?"

"This is cathair dia… The city of the gods…" Moon began as she took a seat on the broken steps in front of the statue. "Once, a long time ago, a goddess descended from the heavens and created a place where her kind could live in harmony with those around them, but there was one that was not happy living the way Selene wished to live so he grew angry with her and eventually killed her." She stopped and looked up at the statue. "She has been like that for close to fifteen hundred years."

Faylinn's mouth fell open. "Wait. That's the real Selene? She turned into a statue?!?"

"Yes… That is Selene. Our guardian and mother, but that's just an empty shell now, the soul has been gone for thousands of years."

"why are you telling me all this?"

"Well…" Moon turned, a half hearted smile lifting only one corner of her mouth, "I wanted you to see that you're not the only one who was left behind… Unlike your history though, I was the death bringer to my people."

"Death… bringer…" Faylinn murmured.

"Yes… For you see when I was born a great war broke out between the demons and my people and everyone in my village was completely decimated. Only my mother, my father, my sister and I survived due to the fact that my family moved away from the village just before it happened."

"And what happened to them…?"

Moon smiled again, that same hollowed smile Faylinn had started to see the moment they stepped into this ruined ghost village. "They were murdered because of me…"