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DAY 2

Morning
We’ve all crashed in the living room, all of the assorted people that Logan and I had gathered spread out in random chairs… the floor, blankets and plates everywhere. I’m the first to awaken, stretching my wings and taking care not to hit anyone. I get up, unlock the door and walk into the front lawn, soaking in the last few cool rays before the darkness above totally blotted out the sun.

Then I hear a voice from on the roof of our house and on instinct form a force bolt and shoot it  at the voice, spinning around as I do so. She merrily laughs and steps to the side and hops down to the ground, landing like warrior. She spreads her wings, giving herself away and speaks, “What’s wrong Azuriem? You’re aim was off on that shot… I would of expected much better from you or one of your brothers… speaking of them. Azurik, I don’t know where he is.  As Azuriel… he’s inside… him and Logan have become one, yes they conversed and Logan agreed, after all you two are brothers. Anyways let us be inside and greet the others.”

I smile and give Jadalah aka Ember a warrior’s handshake and smile at the news… it’d been so long since I had seen either one of my brothers. We walk inside and I look immediately at Logan (Logan, and now… Azuriel). I smile and wait till he’s standing and give him a massive hug. “Brother! It’s been a while hasn’t it?!”

He chuckles slightly and nods, “Yes it has… I’m glad to be here on your side… Azurik is behind enemy lines doing reconnaissance. But I’m sure you had figured that by now… After all… we are family.”

Then Azuriel’s face takes on a more solemn… pained expression, “Oh, I hate to tell you this but our family and all of 5th is gone, apparently the void hit there before here… It completely devoured 5th… this time there is absolutely no chance of 5th coming back. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this… no one survived… the only ones out were the ones that were out at the time… so far I’ve been able to tally Damien, Raziel, Azurik, and the ones in this room.”

By this time everyone else had woken up and were sitting on the living room sofa. I looked at them all, Robin, Atherton, Kimmy, then on my left Jadalah, and on my right, my brother, Azuriel, then I gazed at myself, Azuriem forever known as. We were going to take down something that couldn’t be taken down… and this is where it started.

I finally spoke to the assorted people, “ If I knew how long this would last, I would tell you.” I looked outside, at the now bleak looking sky. It wasn’t a natural darkness… This plane was now void touched. We wanted to do the impossible. I returned my attention to the gathered group around me, “All I can really say is that there is a good chance we will fail this mission, we’d all die. The world would be a slave to the void. Bleak outlook isn’t it? Oh well, Azuriel here is the tactician, not me. I simply give you the facts. I do know however that The Voids Stronghold is not on earth… but because it has invaded this plane, he has left a gateway open to the Plane of the Void. Heh, who would of ever guessed eh? Anyways, I can’t tell you where this gateway is located… we’ll have to find that out on our own.  Anyways, get your gear together. We leave 5 P.M. today. We will do this; one of the few times man kind actually needs someone…. So lets get to it.” Then I looked around and noticed that everyone was ready to go, weapons, armor and magik.

Afternoon

We were all relaxing, as we were sure that this would be our last day of freedom. After this, we would be entered into the obligatory bonds of war. Obligatory because we could not run from this, we were trained and raised for this moment, and any moment like this.

The ones of us that were warriors, we were in the backyard, practicing. The magik casters, they were in the basement, preparing defensive spells, and their offensive spells. Azuriel, he was in the kitchen, making plans, figuring out what was going to happen, what we were going to do. Our combat is interrupted with a loud humming noise. It takes a few minutes before I realize what the hell is going on, and then a loud resounding telepathic slap to Azuriel to get the hell out of the house. It doesn’t take him long to burst out of the window that’s right next to my grandmothers computer. No sooner does he come out the window and hit the dirt, does the house go up in a plume of dirt, dust, and bricks. Azuriel, Jadalah, and I were all knocked farther back then we already were. Azuriel was twisted and turned in the dirt, landing in a heap, Jadalah was knocked into the swing set, falling down into a small heap, and I myself, was knocked shoulder first into the teeter totters. However, one person managed to step and be quite happy, Sha ‘Anala jumped and let the force carry her, letting her land softly at the back of the yard.

After the daze ends, the four of us stand up and look at the now demolished. The first thing we think of is, “OH SHIT! THE OTHERS!”

We go through the rubble, and Azuriel and I are given the perfect reason to end this. We find our grandmother dead, buried under a pile of rubble. Sha ‘Anala and Jadalah go to the basement and find the door blocked. Sha ‘Anala goes to shadow walk and manages to get in, but what she finds is very bleak. Several circles of preparations, but they’d never seen it coming. Robin, Kimmy, and Atherton, they were all beaten, battered, and bruised. Sha ‘Anala checked each body and found no pulse. She came out and relayed the information to Jadalah, Azuriel, and myself. We all took a moment of silence to mourn the dead of this household. Then we moved on.

The four of us buried the dead properly and walked down the street slowly. We knew that all the stores still had to have fresh food, as the people had only been gone for less than a day.

We all stayed walking at the moment, simply taking in the silence that was the coming end of this world. As I looked around it amazed me. These people never had a chance, it had happened so quickly. The Void touched this plane, and took all the mundane as it’s slaves. It even showed. Some people had been mowing, some had been pulling their cars out of the driveway, but all of them had simply been pulled. Empty cars stood stalled in the street, mowers still sounding with their motors on, but no one running them. All of this seemed to have a creepy quietness to it.

I looked at the four of us that were left and said quietly, “Any of you wondering where exactly that thing that blew up the house came from? I know I didn’t see it. All I heard was a loud whistling and boom.”

They shook their heads, and then we all returned to our thoughts. As we continued up the street we neared the corner and got a good look at the rest of the town. It was completely empty and desolate. The cars were still running, car does still opened as people were getting into or out of cars. We needed direction, and we needed one quick. We only had so long before the will of all mankind was broken, and after that, the Void would have its only army of slaves and zombies.

I then heard a massive explosion to the west of where we were at, taking that as our cue, we made our way in that direction. Three of us took flight and Sha ‘Anala started shadow jumping. I nearly fell out of the air from what I saw as we neared the park. It was a contingent of Labnite warriors in the park by the stage, battling the void army in a rather vicious skirmish. Looking around I saw what had hit my house. It was a rather large cannon, being aimed right into the center of my army. I took that as my cue to drop in. Dive-bombed that cannon with two force blades. Needless to say the cannon itself went up in flames. Pulling out my real blades I quickly made work of the two Void Warriors that had been manning the cannon.

While I had been working on that, Jadalah and Azuriel had both dropped into the back ranks and started working towards my group. While Sha ‘Anala, she literally popped up from the shadow of one warrior, and started working on the middle of the void group, she literally killed one, and shadow hopped to another one, killed him, and just continued this process. In no time at all, the last remaining Void Warriors had been exterminated, having one left alive for questioning. The Void Warrior had been bound and gagged, and then the four of us went to address my last remaining men, to see what exactly was going on, because if anyone knew, they would.
I said, “Men, stand at attention, your commanding officer is here to address you.” Such discipline they had, as they all snapped to attention, awaiting orders. I spoke again, “Good work men, it’s good to see you all again, here I thought that the people I had with me were the only ones left alive. Glad to see you also made it out, wings and such all intact. Now the commanding officer of your group step forward and tell me what exactly in hel is going on here!”

With that a weather worn man stepped forward. He saluted me, since I was the commanding officer of the entire Labnite of Alleria Legion. He then began his account of everything that had happened in the last forty-eight hours, “Sir, let me start by saying we are glad to be here with you. I’m sure you want to know how it happened; The Void must have been planning this for a while, because it happened like the snap of a finger. Several squads of its warriors appeared in several key locations, attacked, raped, and pillaged everything. We were unprepared, they continued on with almost no resistance until the end, but by then it was to late, as 5th was still recuperating from its last fall. Then it sent in the suicide bombers and bombed all the key locations still standing from the attack. Everything is gone, from the royal palaces to the archives. Haven and Hel are desiccated, as for the Abyss… well The Void has devised a way to bring back all those that have been put into there, so sir, that means we might be going against your uncle, Azmoedeus. We barely made it out of 5th realm with our lives. We made it to this realm just before 5th collapsed.  So yes, we were here for when the humans were abducted. We also know that most of the Royal Family got out of 5th before the proverbial shit hit the fan. Anyways, we have been looking for you sir.  We landed on the western most side of this town, and flew here. We knew your house was close so we took to foot. We saw this small encampment and came to investigate. We managed to get the initiative. We were doing pretty well until they somehow pulled reinforcements from thin air. We were barely holding ground when you showed up. Thankfully you did when you did sir. They were getting ready to fire on us with that cannon. Now that we have found you sir, we’d like to fight with you sir.”

I stand there quietly, listening to the recount of the past 48 hours, veiling the look of surprise of hearing about the possibility of seeing my uncle again. I knew he’d be an asset to our side, considering the power he held. I knew he wasn’t evil like everyone said. He simply did what had to be done. I then look at the soldier, a smile crossing my lips, “Would be glad to have you traveling with us Sir. Glad you made it to us in time.” Then my attention was turned to the Void Warrior that we had bound and gagged. He was just sitting there quietly. So I walked up to him and kicked him gently with my foot, “Wake up. You have some talking to do.”

He just sat there quietly, staring at me with empty, soulless eyes. Finally he spoke, but not with his voice, it was the voice of The Void that spoke through those cords, and needless to say that voice still chills me, “So you think you can get my own warriors to talk. I thought you were smarter then that Azuriem. After all, you are the leader of the most formidable group of warriors aren’t you? That must take some kind of intelligence.” He laughed a very cold, emotionless laugh right there.

I knew he was trying to get a reaction out of me, but my discipline was better then that, I did however reply, “For all the power in the world, you still can’t crush a few anjels huh? Oh well. Why don’t you just tell us where you’re at, and you and I can settle this one on one. Unless you’re scared.”

He laughed that disturbing laugh again then said, “Why would I be afraid of you? I’m merely toying with you. You’re just a distraction until I’m complete with my plans, then I shall simply crush you with what little will I’ll have to use.”

I was actually becoming annoyed with his arrogance, after all, people, not even The Void, were allowed to be more arrogant then me, “I believe our conversation here is done. If you don’t mind, I’m going to hang up now.” With that I raised my blade and got ready to bring it down on the Void Warriors neck. Before I could though, it spoke one more time.

“You might want to hear this before you do that.” With that, a cold breeze blew through and we all saw in our minds two very familiar figures, Jadelynn and Azurik. They were suspended, upside down, several cuts, and bruises over their body. Several blood splatters were under them on the ground below. About 5 feet behind them, was a wall of torture implements, a healer sitting at the table, and the torturer standing next to him, looking over the implements, trying to decide which one he wanted. Looking at Azurik and Jadelynn showed that neither one of them were conscious at the moment. They all watched on as the healer got up, and flash healed  both of the beaten anjels, and laughed as he sat back down. The torturer then started walking back towards them, with a cruel looking hook. As he advanced towards the two anjels, the image slowly faded to black, everyone getting to hear the screams of agony that emanated from both of them.

An almost feral growl emanated from my throat, but keeping my cool I responded, “ I swear to the fates that be. If those two die on your hands… I will make sure that you feel all the pain they felt, threefold.” Raising the blade, I brought it down on the warriors’ neck, ending his life quickly.

I looked around and saw that everyone looked exhausted. So I told everyone to setup camp and get a fire started, night was fast approaching.

Evening

I got up and walked to the creek that passed through this town. I closed my eyes and simply sat there, thinking. Today had been rough, even more so rough now that I knew that The Void had my brother and a sister in arms. Then I heard the soft footsteps of my lover and companion, Sha ‘Anala. She simply sat down and put an arm over my shoulder. I sighed and simply put my head on her shoulder. Why was it that we would be brought together under times of war? It’d been a while since she and I had any quiet time together. I slowly raise my head, looking at the clouded night, then at her and smile, liping a simple thank you.

I moved behind Sha’Anala and let her lay back against me, and I simply held her, enjoying the short reprieve that we had been given. I looked over my shoulder at the small group of men that had followed me and sighed. These were the best, the ones from Alleria. I’m just glad they had made it out. Without them, I really don’t know how long the four of us (Jadalah, Sha’Anala, Azuriel, and I (Azuriem)) would have made it. I thought aloud, “I still can’t figure it out… what will it take to send the void into oblivion, it’s like an answer that sits on the tip of my tongue and teases me.”

Sha’Anala turned her head towards me and gave me a soft kiss upon the corner of my mouth, then said, “Don’t worry about it for now, and just enjoy the moment of silence we’ve been given. They won’t happen much more often for a while. At least until we’re able to subdue the evil that we have to subdue.” She then hugged me tightly, and cuddled up against my chest, closing her eyes and slowly letting sleep take her. I smiled softly at her and wrapped my wings around us as a cloak, and settled down in a hunched position to get some rest himself, holding Sha’Anala as if she might leave me at any moment.

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Also, as a side note. Flash healing is.... Flash Heal is when the wounds are instantly reversed. Even though very quick, this method of healing also reverses all the pain the victim felt. So if a leg is broken and flash healed, that means the bone is reset and healed, but the pain is also felt again, just as bad as the first time.

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DAY 2

Morning
We’ve all crashed in the living room, all of the assorted people that Logan and I had gathered spread out in random chairs… the floor, blankets and plates everywhere. I’m the first to awaken, stretching my wings and taking care not to hit anyone. I get up, unlock the door and walk into the front lawn, soaking in the last few cool rays before the darkness above totally blotted out the sun.

Then I hear a voice from on the roof of our house and on instinct form a force bolt and shoot it  at the voice, spinning around as I do so. She merrily laughs and steps to the side and hops down to the ground, landing like warrior. She spreads her wings, giving herself away and speaks, “What’s wrong Azuriem? You’re aim was off on that shot… I would of expected much better from you or one of your brothers… speaking of them. Azurik, I don’t know where he is.  As Azuriel… he’s inside… him and Logan have become one, yes they conversed and Logan agreed, after all you two are brothers. Anyways let us be inside and greet the others.”

I smile and give Jadalah aka Ember a warrior’s handshake and smile at the news… it’d been so long since I had seen either one of my brothers. We walk inside and I look immediately at Logan (Logan, and now… Azuriel). I smile and wait till he’s standing and give him a massive hug. “Brother! It’s been a while hasn’t it?!”

He chuckles slightly and nods, “Yes it has… I’m glad to be here on your side… Azurik is behind enemy lines doing reconnaissance. But I’m sure you had figured that by now… After all… we are family.”

Then Azuriel’s face takes on a more solemn… pained expression, “Oh, I hate to tell you this but our family and all of 5th is gone, apparently the void hit there before here… It completely devoured 5th… this time there is absolutely no chance of 5th coming back. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this… no one survived… the only ones out were the ones that were out at the time… so far I’ve been able to tally Damien, Raziel, Azurik, and the ones in this room.”

By this time everyone else had woken up and were sitting on the living room sofa. I looked at them all, Robin, Atherton, Kimmy, then on my left Jadalah, and on my right, my brother, Azuriel, then I gazed at myself, Azuriem forever known as. We were going to take down something that couldn’t be taken down… and this is where it started.

I finally spoke to the assorted people, “ If I knew how long this would last, I would tell you.” I looked outside, at the now bleak looking sky. It wasn’t a natural darkness… This plane was now void touched. We wanted to do the impossible. I returned my attention to the gathered group around me, “All I can really say is that there is a good chance we will fail this mission, we’d all die. The world would be a slave to the void. Bleak outlook isn’t it? Oh well, Azuriel here is the tactician, not me. I simply give you the facts. I do know however that The Voids Stronghold is not on earth… but because it has invaded this plane, he has left a gateway open to the Plane of the Void. Heh, who would of ever guessed eh? Anyways, I can’t tell you where this gateway is located… we’ll have to find that out on our own.  Anyways, get your gear together. We leave 5 P.M. today. We will do this; one of the few times man kind actually needs someone…. So lets get to it.” Then I looked around and noticed that everyone was ready to go, weapons, armor and magik.

Afternoon

We were all relaxing, as we were sure that this would be our last day of freedom. After this, we would be entered into the obligatory bonds of war. Obligatory because we could not run from this, we were trained and raised for this moment, and any moment like this.

The ones of us that were warriors, we were in the backyard, practicing. The magik casters, they were in the basement, preparing defensive spells, and their offensive spells. Azuriel, he was in the kitchen, making plans, figuring out what was going to happen, what we were going to do. Our combat is interrupted with a loud humming noise. It takes a few minutes before I realize what the hell is going on, and then a loud resounding telepathic slap to Azuriel to get the hell out of the house. It doesn’t take him long to burst out of the window that’s right next to my grandmothers computer. No sooner does he come out the window and hit the dirt, does the house go up in a plume of dirt, dust, and bricks. Azuriel, Jadalah, and I were all knocked farther back then we already were. Azuriel was twisted and turned in the dirt, landing in a heap, Jadalah was knocked into the swing set, falling down into a small heap, and I myself, was knocked shoulder first into the teeter totters. However, one person managed to step and be quite happy, Sha ‘Anala jumped and let the force carry her, letting her land softly at the back of the yard.

After the daze ends, the four of us stand up and look at the now demolished. The first thing we think of is, “OH SHIT! THE OTHERS!”

We go through the rubble, and Azuriel and I are given the perfect reason to end this. We find our grandmother dead, buried under a pile of rubble. Sha ‘Anala and Jadalah go to the basement and find the door blocked. Sha ‘Anala goes to shadow walk and manages to get in, but what she finds is very bleak. Several circles of preparations, but they’d never seen it coming. Robin, Kimmy, and Atherton, they were all beaten, battered, and bruised. Sha ‘Anala checked each body and found no pulse. She came out and relayed the information to Jadalah, Azuriel, and myself. We all took a moment of silence to mourn the dead of this household. Then we moved on.

The four of us buried the dead properly and walked down the street slowly. We knew that all the stores still had to have fresh food, as the people had only been gone for less than a day.

We all stayed walking at the moment, simply taking in the silence that was the coming end of this world. As I looked around it amazed me. These people never had a chance, it had happened so quickly. The Void touched this plane, and took all the mundane as it’s slaves. It even showed. Some people had been mowing, some had been pulling their cars out of the driveway, but all of them had simply been pulled. Empty cars stood stalled in the street, mowers still sounding with their motors on, but no one running them. All of this seemed to have a creepy quietness to it.

I looked at the four of us that were left and said quietly, “Any of you wondering where exactly that thing that blew up the house came from? I know I didn’t see it. All I heard was a loud whistling and boom.”

They shook their heads, and then we all returned to our thoughts. As we continued up the street we neared the corner and got a good look at the rest of the town. It was completely empty and desolate. The cars were still running, car does still opened as people were getting into or out of cars. We needed direction, and we needed one quick. We only had so long before the will of all mankind was broken, and after that, the Void would have its only army of slaves and zombies.

I then heard a massive explosion to the west of where we were at, taking that as our cue, we made our way in that direction. Three of us took flight and Sha ‘Anala started shadow jumping. I nearly fell out of the air from what I saw as we neared the park. It was a contingent of Labnite warriors in the park by the stage, battling the void army in a rather vicious skirmish. Looking around I saw what had hit my house. It was a rather large cannon, being aimed right into the center of my army. I took that as my cue to drop in. Dive-bombed that cannon with two force blades. Needless to say the cannon itself went up in flames. Pulling out my real blades I quickly made work of the two Void Warriors that had been manning the cannon.

While I had been working on that, Jadalah and Azuriel had both dropped into the back ranks and started working towards my group. While Sha ‘Anala, she literally popped up from the shadow of one warrior, and started working on the middle of the void group, she literally killed one, and shadow hopped to another one, killed him, and just continued this process. In no time at all, the last remaining Void Warriors had been exterminated, having one left alive for questioning. The Void Warrior had been bound and gagged, and then the four of us went to address my last remaining men, to see what exactly was going on, because if anyone knew, they would.
I said, “Men, stand at attention, your commanding officer is here to address you.” Such discipline they had, as they all snapped to attention, awaiting orders. I spoke again, “Good work men, it’s good to see you all again, here I thought that the people I had with me were the only ones left alive. Glad to see you also made it out, wings and such all intact. Now the commanding officer of your group step forward and tell me what exactly in hel is going on here!”

With that a weather worn man stepped forward. He saluted me, since I was the commanding officer of the entire Labnite of Alleria Legion. He then began his account of everything that had happened in the last forty-eight hours, “Sir, let me start by saying we are glad to be here with you. I’m sure you want to know how it happened; The Void must have been planning this for a while, because it happened like the snap of a finger. Several squads of its warriors appeared in several key locations, attacked, raped, and pillaged everything. We were unprepared, they continued on with almost no resistance until the end, but by then it was to late, as 5th was still recuperating from its last fall. Then it sent in the suicide bombers and bombed all the key locations still standing from the attack. Everything is gone, from the royal palaces to the archives. Haven and Hel are desiccated, as for the Abyss… well The Void has devised a way to bring back all those that have been put into there, so sir, that means we might be going against your uncle, Azmoedeus. We barely made it out of 5th realm with our lives. We made it to this realm just before 5th collapsed.  So yes, we were here for when the humans were abducted. We also know that most of the Royal Family got out of 5th before the proverbial shit hit the fan. Anyways, we have been looking for you sir.  We landed on the western most side of this town, and flew here. We knew your house was close so we took to foot. We saw this small encampment and came to investigate. We managed to get the initiative. We were doing pretty well until they somehow pulled reinforcements from thin air. We were barely holding ground when you showed up. Thankfully you did when you did sir. They were getting ready to fire on us with that cannon. Now that we have found you sir, we’d like to fight with you sir.”

I stand there quietly, listening to the recount of the past 48 hours, veiling the look of surprise of hearing about the possibility of seeing my uncle again. I knew he’d be an asset to our side, considering the power he held. I knew he wasn’t evil like everyone said. He simply did what had to be done. I then look at the soldier, a smile crossing my lips, “Would be glad to have you traveling with us Sir. Glad you made it to us in time.” Then my attention was turned to the Void Warrior that we had bound and gagged. He was just sitting there quietly. So I walked up to him and kicked him gently with my foot, “Wake up. You have some talking to do.”

He just sat there quietly, staring at me with empty, soulless eyes. Finally he spoke, but not with his voice, it was the voice of The Void that spoke through those cords, and needless to say that voice still chills me, “So you think you can get my own warriors to talk. I thought you were smarter then that Azuriem. After all, you are the leader of the most formidable group of warriors aren’t you? That must take some kind of intelligence.” He laughed a very cold, emotionless laugh right there.

I knew he was trying to get a reaction out of me, but my discipline was better then that, I did however reply, “For all the power in the world, you still can’t crush a few anjels huh? Oh well. Why don’t you just tell us where you’re at, and you and I can settle this one on one. Unless you’re scared.”

He laughed that disturbing laugh again then said, “Why would I be afraid of you? I’m merely toying with you. You’re just a distraction until I’m complete with my plans, then I shall simply crush you with what little will I’ll have to use.”

I was actually becoming annoyed with his arrogance, after all, people, not even The Void, were allowed to be more arrogant then me, “I believe our conversation here is done. If you don’t mind, I’m going to hang up now.” With that I raised my blade and got ready to bring it down on the Void Warriors neck. Before I could though, it spoke one more time.

“You might want to hear this before you do that.” With that, a cold breeze blew through and we all saw in our minds two very familiar figures, Jadelynn and Azurik. They were suspended, upside down, several cuts, and bruises over their body. Several blood splatters were under them on the ground below. About 5 feet behind them, was a wall of torture implements, a healer sitting at the table, and the torturer standing next to him, looking over the implements, trying to decide which one he wanted. Looking at Azurik and Jadelynn showed that neither one of them were conscious at the moment. They all watched on as the healer got up, and flash healed  both of the beaten anjels, and laughed as he sat back down. The torturer then started walking back towards them, with a cruel looking hook. As he advanced towards the two anjels, the image slowly faded to black, everyone getting to hear the screams of agony that emanated from both of them.

An almost feral growl emanated from my throat, but keeping my cool I responded, “ I swear to the fates that be. If those two die on your hands… I will make sure that you feel all the pain they felt, threefold.” Raising the blade, I brought it down on the warriors’ neck, ending his life quickly.

I looked around and saw that everyone looked exhausted. So I told everyone to setup camp and get a fire started, night was fast approaching.

Evening

I got up and walked to the creek that passed through this town. I closed my eyes and simply sat there, thinking. Today had been rough, even more so rough now that I knew that The Void had my brother and a sister in arms. Then I heard the soft footsteps of my lover and companion, Sha ‘Anala. She simply sat down and put an arm over my shoulder. I sighed and simply put my head on her shoulder. Why was it that we would be brought together under times of war? It’d been a while since she and I had any quiet time together. I slowly raise my head, looking at the clouded night, then at her and smile, liping a simple thank you.

I moved behind Sha’Anala and let her lay back against me, and I simply held her, enjoying the short reprieve that we had been given. I looked over my shoulder at the small group of men that had followed me and sighed. These were the best, the ones from Alleria. I’m just glad they had made it out. Without them, I really don’t know how long the four of us (Jadalah, Sha’Anala, Azuriel, and I (Azuriem)) would have made it. I thought aloud, “I still can’t figure it out… what will it take to send the void into oblivion, it’s like an answer that sits on the tip of my tongue and teases me.”

Sha’Anala turned her head towards me and gave me a soft kiss upon the corner of my mouth, then said, “Don’t worry about it for now, and just enjoy the moment of silence we’ve been given. They won’t happen much more often for a while. At least until we’re able to subdue the evil that we have to subdue.” She then hugged me tightly, and cuddled up against my chest, closing her eyes and slowly letting sleep take her. I smiled softly at her and wrapped my wings around us as a cloak, and settled down in a hunched position to get some rest himself, holding Sha’Anala as if she might leave me at any moment.

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Also, as a side note. Flash healing is.... Flash Heal is when the wounds are instantly reversed. Even though very quick, this method of healing also reverses all the pain the victim felt. So if a leg is broken and flash healed, that means the bone is reset and healed, but the pain is also felt again, just as bad as the first time.