"If you need me, look for me where the darkness meets the light. Where there is no line between good and evil. Where everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Look for me where Balance reigns. Where life and death walk hand in hand. Where Destiny meets Fate. Where Love isn't questioned but instead it is just Love. Look for me there and call my name. I'll be there and I'll answer....."

She sighed, remembering her own words as she disappeared into the Twilight. She had never meant to cause them harm as she had. She had only wanted to protect them, to keep them from the pain she had faced. And she had failed.

Spreading her wings she glanced back over her shoulder before taking to the air with strong beats of her wings. She knew that once her words made sense they would search for her, but she also knew that the one that would awaken her again would not be among them. He wouldn't come until it was nearly to late. After what seemed like hours the woman landed in an old stronghold. Once it had been a beautiful castle for the Elementals. Now it lay in ruins after the great battle that had taken place.

Letting her gaze trail over the old stones she smiled sadly. She remembered exactly how everything had been. Where every stone had once lain. Where every tear had been shed in both happiness and pain. She remembered every word that had been whispered in passion and in fear. Where every drop of blood had been spilled as they defended their home. She remembered their cries of pain at the beginning, and then his cry of despair at the end.

This had been his home. And now this would be hers. Hers to watch over, hers to defend. But most of all hers to remember and to despair until the day she was awakened again. Silently she walked through the now decaying doors, her feet barely making a sound on the dust covered floor. Pausing long enough to allow her eyes to adjust to the fading light she made her way deeper into the old castle.

Finding the room she wanted again the woman turned to look back the way she had come.

"Perhaps you will understand someday. Look after each other and be happy. Fear not the darkness that lurks just out of sight. It will pass just as everything else has."

With one last glance around she pushed open the heavy oak doors. Smiling slightly when the doors opened with ease she paused. These doors had been all that had stood between them and the Elementals. It had been before these doors that they had made their last stand

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