She was cold. Cold and very tired. Her whole body felt limp as she stared at nothing. She thought she could hear a voice speaking to her, but she wasn’t sure. It was faint compared to the single thought that ran through her mind.
It was supposed to be easy. A simple seek-and-destroy mission. It was only supposed to be class B, a level they should have been able to handle in their sleep...
But then why was she lying here? On the cold wooden floors, staring up at an unfamiliar ceiling, feeling nothing but slow numbing that had begun to take over her limbs. It was an odd feeling. She wasn’t in pain or anything. No, all she could feel was the cold, and so very tired.
So tired...
Oh wait… that was right. She remembered now. Through the haze that seemed to have settled over her mind, a memory came pushing through. She could see herself, standing before a shadow, with another by her side. The first shadow was blurred but not the second. The second was as clear to her eyes as the image of herself. In fact, it was almost as if she was staring at herself. Two of them.
Hikari…
Her sister. Her dear, precious sister. Her twin and other half. The only person who had ever meant anything to her. That's what had happened, what caused her to fall into the condition she was in now. She had done something foolish in all sense of the word. Something she had been taught long ago to be a mistake beyond the comprehension of idiocy. But she had been desperate. She didn’t have a choice. When she had seen the shadow take hold of her precious Hikari, all thoughts had left her mind. All she knew was the need to protect, and to kill. Which is exactly what she did. Without a second thought, she had drawn all the energy she had left in her, to send a wave of pure light at the creature. Their mortal weapons had had no effect on the creature, which was how the other had gotten caught in the first place. This was why she had ended up draining herself so completely that she now lay limp on the cold floors of this unfamiliar room. It had taken much more to kill the creature than she had expected. Much, much more.
Suddenly, she felt a tugging on her hand, a sensation that suddenly broke through the haze on her mind. Along with the desperate pleading in a voice that was so familiar to her. That's right, Hikari was alive. Her dear sister was still alive. That's all that matter right? That was why she was lying here instead of her twin, staring at the ugly blue ceiling above her...
Blue? Was the ceiling blue? It hadn’t been blue before... had it? That was odd, why would anyone paint their ceiling blue...?
Why was everything turning blue...?
So very blue...
 D i c h o t i c · Sun Jul 06, 2008 @ 12:35am · 0 Comments |
