My name is Kite and I am hungry. Everyday I help the bigger gangs of Leira city with all their small time jobs and deals for a small piece of the cut. Anything from lookout and message running, to a minor distraction which i hate. I hate distractions because it usually ends up with me getting my but kicked by one guard or another or by some random man who takes my appearance as a physical assault on his being. It is really simple really. I am a great distraction. Everyone notices me whether i want them to or not. It is because i am cursed. Not weakness or anything super dire but its just who i am. You see i am a Tymodian. Tymodians are 'supposedly' really smart. We have little magic besides some crafting skills which are helpful along with our four arms. Two upper, two lower smaller arms. Usually a Tymo, for short, will have dark almost black skin with red eyes. at average 5'5 to 6ft tall. And then there is me. 5ft tall with completely white skin. Almost translucent with completely white eyes. So in our twilight city of Leira I stand out. And that makes me a target.

Being a target isn't all bad. (Yay for optimism) It helps out the other guys who took me in and taught me the ropes. I cant do much else besides the little stuff because I'm too big a target. But i do what i can. Because i have to. If i didn't help them then i don't get a cut. No cut means no food. No food and i die. So thats me. Kite. Small glowing ball of glowing pain to the eyes of people.

Today's job was special. The ducal twins needed me to distract some weird insane peddler who came to town so they can steal something of his. It was simple. I would go up and start a talk with the man, then make him angry in some way. Get him to chase me or look away long enough for the guys to come by and do a quick snatch and grab. simple. What i did not expect was the method i chose which was quickly try and grab his necklace and run away to backfire in my face so fantastically.

I don't really know why i tried to grab that necklace. I saw it and needed it. It was a white jagged stone a couple inches long wrapped in cord and hidden in his shirt. it somehow popped out when he wasn't looking and on pure and simple impulse i tried to grab it. What was next happened too fast which i didn't fully remember until later. When i tried to yank the cord from his neck it didn't budge but dug into my skin. The next thing was pain. horrible horrible pain. the white stone started pulsing like some kind of magic stone. because of the pain my hand clamped on the stone and i couldn't let go and started screaming. Ripples flew up my arm and over my body. It felt like i was dissolving. First my skin dissipated, then my veins all the way until all the was left was bone. I was still holding the stone and could feel everything still. I could see and hear but i could not move. Finally nothing was left. I was just a blob of shifting colors in the shape of a man still holding onto the stone. finally the stone stopped pulsing. there was silence for one glorious second. There was no pain. I could see and understand everything around me. It was weird. the people around me were just flowing globs of different colored light stacked on top of each other in layers with one small pure white light in the center.

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That one second was endless. But when it did end. it was bad. Up until this point it all took maybe 7 seconds. I could still see the back of the twins as they tried to turn around and distance themselves from this situation. I mean i was just some 12 year old kid they tolerated because i was useful. I was so angry seeing them leave. I think that's what saved me. After that last pain free second the white stone shone so bright i was blinded. It kept getting brighter and brighter. until the whole world seemed to be engulfed. Then came the pain. It was like being crushed under the weight of a mountain, grinding you until there is nothing but dust then being put back together again. Over and over and over again. But luckily i was spared most of that when i blacked out.

Hi, My name is Kite. And this is how i stupidly grabbed the God shard and died.