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It was dark. Ren was waiting. All of them were waiting together. This darkness wasn’t new. It was like this sometimes in the gaps between the snippets she experienced in her different stories. They were all here, waiting. A new one joined recently. She was different from the rest of them but she still looked the same. She wasn’t important. She would eventually be forgotten. They all would. They would all fade into the shadows eventually. She may never get a chance to exist again.
Everything got cold.
And dark.
The air prickled with what two of Ren could tell was magic.
Something was there.
Something else.
Watching.
Watching Ren.
It reached out.
    It could touch her.
Ren felt hands grasp her but not. It grasped all of her, holding her like she was from the early days. Calm at first. Then it pulled. It pulled and pushed in all of her, throughout all of herselves. It pushed her together and it tore her away. She was alone. Alone in the shadows. Two shadows were watching her now. She could feel it. One bubbling with energy, confusion, hatred, pain the other unreadable. A sheet of ice so thick the water beneath felt like a legend.
    Then the pain came. She boiled inside with tingling that grew stronger and stronger until it felt like acid coursing through her newly formed veins as her stuffing melted into flesh. Ren screamed but it made no noise. She felt the silence drowning her, filling up her lungs. She couldn’t tell if her eyes were closed or open. Suddenly, the pain stopped. Everything stopped.
    It was silent.
    Ren was alone.
    For the first time since the beginning she was alone.
    Well, mostly alone.
    The angry shadow was still watching.
    Then it screamed.
    Everything screamed, the darkness shrieked, oozed, swirled, cracked with energy, it glowed, shining brighter and brighter and closer and closer.
    Ren gasped awake, her eyes shooting open.

    She wasn’t in the darkness anymore.
    Where was she?

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Acorn Count
Total Acorns: 28/230

Description

It was dark. Ren was waiting. All of them were waiting together. This darkness wasn’t new. It was like this sometimes in the gaps between the snippets she experienced in her different stories. They were all here, waiting. A new one joined recently. She was different from the rest of them but she still looked the same. She wasn’t important. She would eventually be forgotten. They all would. They would all fade into the shadows eventually. She may never get a chance to exist again.
Everything got cold.
And dark.
The air prickled with what two of Ren could tell was magic.
Something was there.
Something else.
Watching.
Watching Ren.
It reached out.
    It could touch her.
Ren felt hands grasp her but not. It grasped all of her, holding her like she was from the early days. Calm at first. Then it pulled. It pulled and pushed in all of her, throughout all of herselves. It pushed her together and it tore her away. She was alone. Alone in the shadows. Two shadows were watching her now. She could feel it. One bubbling with energy, confusion, hatred, pain the other unreadable. A sheet of ice so thick the water beneath felt like a legend.
    Then the pain came. She boiled inside with tingling that grew stronger and stronger until it felt like acid coursing through her newly formed veins as her stuffing melted into flesh. Ren screamed but it made no noise. She felt the silence drowning her, filling up her lungs. She couldn’t tell if her eyes were closed or open. Suddenly, the pain stopped. Everything stopped.
    It was silent.
    Ren was alone.
    For the first time since the beginning she was alone.
    Well, mostly alone.
    The angry shadow was still watching.
    Then it screamed.
    Everything screamed, the darkness shrieked, oozed, swirled, cracked with energy, it glowed, shining brighter and brighter and closer and closer.
    Ren gasped awake, her eyes shooting open.

    She wasn’t in the darkness anymore.
    Where was she?

next>

Acorn Count
Total Acorns: 28/230