London Area

[liz]

I wandered around London blindly, tears streaming down my face. I was moving but I wasn't percieving anything I saw. I wasn't dead but I didn't feel alive either. I was just released from the 'Mental Hospital' and the normal world didn't seem normal anymore. Help me, please help me, I plead to no one in particular. How could I have been pleading to someone if everything was in my head? I closed my eyes and slumped against a wall in an alley. I was legally mentally unstable; how could they throw me back out into the world that had caused me so much pain after I had gotten used to normal in the hospital? Why? These were the questions I wondered as I stumbled through the streets that I once knew so well but now were so unusual to me.

[Enigma]

I stood in the small room at the top of some gothic British building, looking down on the streets of this city. My eyes were wild with insanity, so crazed a glance in my eyes would make most people insane, but yet, their were the occasional person who could withstand my gaze. As night drew closer I could feel the darkness empower me for some reson, and slowly I wet and stop on the ledge of the balcony, before jumping.

As I jumped the darkness cushioned me, until I landed square on my feet in the middle of the street, some back alley when I noticed another girl. I kept my hood down as I approached her.

[liz]

In the meantime I had fallen to my knees, resting, leaning upon the wall. I had become dependent on the staff who had made living easier, who had made sure I wouldn't waste away, who had taken care of me ever since... he...

They weren't here now to see me starving, cold, and homeless, that's for sure. I curled up in a ball, tired, dirty, and hungry. I heard the sounds of the city against my own raspy breathing. You're on your own now, Sol. Said the voices in my head. Make them go away, I pleaded to know one in particular. How could I have pleaded if I had forgotten how to speak? The tears streamed down my cheeks, warm and calming against my freezing skin. Somebody, anybody, help me. The voices in my head were taunting me. Make it stop. Please make it stop.  I heard the sound of shoes coming to a 'clunk' on the ground and my head jolted up and I looked around. Anybody there? I asked, in my head. If you're out there, can you help me?

[Enigma]

Torren sensed the young girl was in pain and quickly ran over, refusing to show her pale and thin face as she gently touched the girl and whispered "are you ok?" She really didn't know this girl, or partly care but part of her raven blood sensed a connection and was determined to help her. Without hearing an answer she controlled the darkness to lift the girl and take her deeper into the dark.

She slowly began to look over the girl in detail, noticing that she was in fact mental, and that made her grin,

[liz]

I struggled to stand, frostbite hurting every step of the way. A groan slipped out of my lips, one of the first few noises I'd made in a year. "Wh-Who... a-are....you," the words came out of my mouth, the first time I'd spoken in months. I examined the girl closely, curiously, feeling somehow connected even though I'd never seen her before. I couldn't stand the pain so I fell to the ground, crumpled into a pile. I tried to support myself with my arms but I couldn't, I rested my weight on the wall again. "D-Did... th-they... send you?" I asked, half hopefully, half hatefully. "A-Are.......y-y-you h-here t-to.......help m-me?" I question, shaking from the cold. I let my loose, long blond curly hair cover my face in attempt to use it to insulate myself. The cold was too much for me in my clothes which were just about rags by now. "Wh-why are y-you h-here?"

[Enigma]

"I sent myself. And I am only going to save your life because I can't stand a street urchin to die. You have Much in life" I say coldly, speaking as darkness as I allow the energy from its ghastly power to flow throughout my body and into the girlzc healing her wounds, strengthening her blood and bones as I examine the clothing, basically rags. I remove my sweatshirt, covering my eyes with my hand as I hand you the black and slightly bloodstained garnet "here" I say, now dressed in only a tank top and some dark trousers as I keep my eyes covered. "What is your name?" I ask you? My hands slowly caressing your wounds. Who were you? How did I know you? We were connected, but I didn't know how.

[liz]

I gratefully pulled on the sweatshirt, instantly feeling warmer. "Thank you, you are very kind." I said, a faint smile on my lips. I began to feel stronger, and I stood up. "My name is Solaris Delphine. Sol for short" I said and smiled. "Why are you covering your eyes? Is something wrong?" I asked her. Something felt a bit odd, we were connected somehow. Who was she? Why was she helping me? What did she mean me and my kind had much in life? We had nothing. We had rags, we had food scraps(or at least the lucky ones did). We slept wherever we could that was sheltered. I had something, once, but someone took it away from me. And they couldn't give it back. Death was forever, right? And now..... now he was gone.

[Enigma]

Torren cut her off quickly "I'm not kind. I am not ok. You may think your mentally challenged, but your not. I'm the one cursed, I'm the one who will die young. I am the one who tries to do everything right but always cause destruction" torren then silenced herself and sighed. "I am torren, meaning torrent, the rushing water that wipes away all it loves" she looked up at the cloudless night sky. Torren wanted to kill herself, she really did. She cut, she burned, she triedtonkill herself time and time again but this strange force of darkness in her stopped her every time. Every damn time and now she just wanted to run..,,to be alone. No one could ever love or understand her.

[liz]

I could sense she's not happy, somehow, I could tell she didn't like her life. That she wanted to die. I... I could empathize with that. I looked right at her. "You... You're like me" I said, slightly smiling. "You aren't happy, you don't want to live, you want to just give up. Like me" I looked at her with wide eyes. "I've scared away most of my friends, and ran away from others" I said, watching her, still slightly smiling. I giggled. "You are like me, aren't you?" I pushed some hair away from my face. "Someone like me," I said under my breath. "Someone like me."

[Enigma]

Torren snarled, annoyed for a moment as she glared at the girl, although not revealing her eyes. "If I am like you, then what are you?" She asked harshly, all signs in her time pointing to her mental instability and her high levels of stress and axiety, all that needed to be controlled and roughy down to a safe level. Her gothic clothing was tight around her body as she crossed her arms in from of her chest defensibly, feeling frightened and cornered. All she wanted to do was just....die

[liz]

"I am the one who was supposed to bring brightness into the world every morning through night. But time and pain have dimmed the glow, and now all I bring is cold, dark, blackness." I stared at the girl, smile wiped clean off my face. "I had family, I had friends, I had hope, and love... but then one day my life was taken away and now this is who I am. This is who I am." I looked at her, pain clearly visible in my eyes. "Now I run from everyone who tried to help me, who tried to keep me from dying. Now this is how I live..." I said, scared, and lonely, and miserable. "I... I should give you your sweatshirt back now"

[Enigma]

"Keep it sol. Your coming with me, ok? Two depressed girls against the world" she muttered and sighed, her hand still covering her eyes. "And I'll just create a sweatshirt" she continued and a black one appeared on her body, allowing her eyes to remain hidden. "Lets go, ok? The streets aren't the best place to be....when I'm around" she said and started babbling about a bird

[liz]

"Thank you." I said, and followed her.

[Enigma]

Torren led her throughout London and England until they finally found an abandoned castle. "Here" she told sol.

[liz]

"Are you just leaving me here?"

[Enigma]

"As much as I would like to, no. We are connected somehow and I am determined to find out how and why"

[liz]

I smile weakly. "alright."

[Enigma]

I go inside

[liz]

I follow.

[Enigma]

I casually look around the dark and sjjpl

[liz]

OOC: And what?

[Enigma]

*sighed

[liz]

I watch her.

[Enigma]

Torren saw her watching "what?"

[liz]

I look away. "Nothing."

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