"Phoenix, wake up."

Phoenix opened her eyes and saw a misty forest with a endless blue sky with cottony clouds. A woman with red-gold hair, reaching to her shoulders, many freckles on her face and light green with amber dots eyes crouched next to her, her white blouse twitching in the breeze. "Wake up, darling."

"M..momma?"

The woman smiled gently before picking Phoenix up, a small six year old. "You see the sky, my little angel?"

"Yes momma."

"Look to the sky when you are lost. All hope lies there."

Shouting in the horizon caused the woman to tense, her fear spreading to Phoenix. Setting Phoenix down on the ground, the woman pulled out a wand, coiling like a brown vine. "Phoenix, run. Run, run, run until your far away from here."

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"But Momma-"

"GO!" The woman shouted, tears streaming down her face. "Go hide!"

Phoenix started to run as flashes of red and green light invaded her senses. A scream, shrill and piercing, sent Phoenix tumbling to the ground as it cut off.

"MOMMA!" Phoenix cried. "MOMMA!!" Phoenix sobbed as she felt a hole in her heart, knowing her mother was dead.

"What are you doing out here, child?"

Phoenix looked up and saw a tall man with red, snakelike eyes, pale skin, and no nose looking at her, wand in hand.

"M-m-my momma's d-d-dead!" Phoenix sobbed, not noticing that her tears were..odd, to say in the least. The man looked at her more intently.

"What was your mother's name?"

"M-M-Millie R-R-Ride."

The man stiffened and slowly pointed his wand towards her. Phoenix looked up just as his hissing voice spoke, booming like thunder:

"Obliviate."