The Last Song
The Last Song
Chapter One: Child In The Dark
[Prologue]Auron stood silent within a grove of autumn trees, wisps of auburn light trickling through trees that swayed to a soft mid-afternoon breeze. Beyond him stood a magnificent beast, a loyal friend, Yuyo. She stared at him, eyes penetrating into his soul, and his into hers. Between the two, there was a deep and powerful connection, and they thrived from one another. With her, he was safe, strong and stable. There was family. There was strength. There was home.
But something threatened this precious, silent place. An approaching darkness; a thick smog that would suffocate him. The image of Yuyo became nothing more than a mirage, and the trees around him set ablaze into blinding fire. As his vision dwindled, choked by smoke, nightmarish scenes of his animal companion's horrible demise filled his remaining sight, until there was naught but black, and a persistent wheezing and gasping for life that seemed to so quickly slip away...
He awoke screaming, his hands reaching for his broken eyes, hoping in some way it would help, but they replied only with that unfamiliar black that forever seemed to taunt him now.
"JYOTI!!!" he screamed like a frightened child crying for his mother, as he pulled himself out of bed, clumsy arms knocking off a nearby jug of flowers. Now crumpled on the ground, lost in his own blindness, he screamed once more. "Jyoti!! Where are you?" Enraged by his own lack of strength and courage, he slammed his fist hard into the floor until it became bloody, cursing all the while.
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