Through out time, Thane had seen and witness many things. Things that were beyond any human understanding and beyond comprehension yet to him they were so trivial and so little they became only but a second thought. But if the mind of any living thing were to witness them, they would die from pure insanity.

He opened his eyes as he thought about all the things he had learned. He was surrounded by darkness, nothing but pitch black darkness and to him it was what others called 'Thanes home'

Then he started thinking.

Thane had always knew an important fact about him, that through out time no matter what he did he had always taken more than what he could offer, but being who he was he had little to nothing to offer at all. Nothing to offer but the end of all things. But was he the end to all things? Or was there more? No he thought as he threw the thought away, to him he had no right to question things. All he had was his duty and his duty was to take and to guide. To him the life of a human or any other living thing was but short and unimpressive. Yet he didn't looked down on them either. How could he?

Looking back he thought about the words of one individual he met a long, long time ago when he came to be.

"In time, you will understand" understand what? He asked. Even now, even after being in existense for the longest time, he had no answer. He could only reminisce.

To remember all of this though and to understand just what he was, was to him, nothing but a pain in the ass.

He reached for his pocket and took out what seemed to be a wrist watch. It was of greenish golden color while looking old and worned out and anyone could tell just from a glance that it been through some rough times. He sighed and put it on his left wrist and touched the glass above the ticking hands.

He looked forward and started walking placing both his hands in his pockets. Before long the darkness that was surrounding him was turning to white and was filling his surroundings. Then structures began to emerge as he kept walking. Everything he touch had took on creation. The ground was starting to materialise, a wall was emerging from both his sides along with them a ceiling above him. Tiles started to covered them in a neat order as they appear out of thin air. White doors with numbers were being created too on both his sides. Thane took no notice as he kept on walking. Then he stopped and turned to his right, just as if he willed it a door was being materialise right in front of him.

He took a glance at the handle and then reached out for it with his hand. After a moment of silence he turned it and push the door open and went inside.

There was a girl there, sleeping on what seemed to be a hospital bed. she was frail looking and no longer had any hair on her head. Her eyes were close and she was breathing slowly and steadily evident from the rise and fall from the blanket she was covered on. The cheeks were sunken and her lips were dry too. There was no one in the room but her.

Thane then started walking towards her while the door behind him closed slowly as it screeched slowly then followed by a thud sound.

He stood besides her and looked at her, his eyes and face devoid of all known emotions. After a minute or so he started lifting his hand and sent it towards her shoulder but before he could do so he was interrupted by her voice

"I did my best right?" She asked. Thane looked at her face wondering if the question was directed at him. It was strange to him because had done this before yet even so after witnessing how much she was struggling he spoke.

"Yes you did" he said softly as he touched her shoulder. But to his surprised she disappeared leaving nothing but the empty bed.

Thane retracted his hands and stood upright, he checked the room around him but to his annoyance found no signs of her"Is this even possible?" He muttered under his breath. But Thane wasn't one who would contemplate on his own thoughts so after making a decision he closed his eyes and lifted his chin with his face towards the ceiling and made a focused expression.

"There you are!" he said as if he had just realised something reveling. He opened his eyes and turned towards the door and started moving again.

"......"

After waking around the silent lifeless hallway he finally found the one he was looking for. She was by the reception desk standing still with a panic expression on her face. Thane wondered if she knew what happened to her because to him she looked lost and bewildered. So he decided that he would tell it to her himself.

"You know..." He spoke up which frightened her. She stood up straight and turned towards him. He then realised something. 'This girl' he thought.

He appearance had fully change from the last time he saw her in that room. She had hair now, which was brown, straight and long enough that it almost reached her waist. She still looked thin yet wasn't so frail and skinny anymore. She had a string shoulder white dress on which reached her knees. He noticed how it complimented her white porcelain skin effortlessly. Her eyes were of black color and her nose was small, a bit pointy and cute like it was of a child yet it didn't looked out of place. Her lips unlike before were pink and full of life now

Any man who had the chance to be able to see her like this would definitely wouldn't be able to take their eyes off her. She was nothing but beautiful.

He saw how intensely and curiously she was staring. 'Its probably my eyes' he grinned at the thought.

"It's rude to stare" thane said smugly.

"Wh-wha-what!!! No I wasn't!" She was stammering, her face red from the obvious embarrassing situation she found herself in

"You were" Thane snickered. To him this was the most amusing thing.

Her expression then changed to that of anger and Thane had realise that there was line and he had crossed it. "No I wasn't" she retorted.

"It's ok happens all the time" Thane was used to this though, every time he meets someone they'd do the same thing when they saw his unusual eyes so to him this was normal.

"Were you the one who brought me here?"

Thane turned towards the girl and sighed nonchalantly as she asked him that.

"Yes, I did in a way"

After saying that Thane realised that he only made the girl more angry.

"Look here mister" after she said that Thane took a step back because she was starting to walk towards him. He was on his guard.

"Wherever this place is and whomever you are it is not OK! To drag a young lady down here without-.."

"Huh?" Thane was surprised, he had never been in this situation before. His thought process was taking over him, running at a thousand or even million times per second more than any ordinary human can comprehend. He stared at her eyes and used the solution he came up with. He then started scanning her memories but then he realised something was wrong.

He's wasn't getting anything from her, no information or memory whatsoever which was unusual. A sudden thought came to him. 'So that's why'

"You dont remember?" He asked which snapped her back to reality. He stared at her intently. He was right. After asking that the girl was in a state of panic. She was starting to shake from the shock of forgetting everything.

Also at the same time Thane sensed a familiar feeling from the room he was in before where he saw the girl in her previous state.

"Who... Who am I?" The girl asked anxiously. Thane had no idea what was going on, yet still being who he was decided to stay as calm as he usually was. He was analysing the situation trying to come up with the right solution. After giving much thought he nodded internally and decided to show the girl the place where he had that feeling coming from. He wanted to know the answer too, he wanted to find out what was going on here too.

"......"

As Thane decided to jump he thought back to himself

'Why didn't the gate open?' 'Why did she forget who she was?' 'Why'd she disappeared from that room?'

None of this seemed right. None of this was normal. 'Just who is this girl?'

While carrying her in his arms he decided to take a look at her, she was smiling and looking back at the hospital. A feeling came from inside Thane, it was very small and momentary. Yet he felt it nonetheless. It was a strange feeling. He couldn't get his head around it.

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As the light in front of him was getting brighter he and the girl closed their eyes letting the wind envelop them.

In a moment of what felt like forever, his feet finally left the ground, both of them heading closer and closer to the light as it got brighter.

'Maybe there..' He thought 'I'd find some answers'

"........"

I held onto him tightly as the wind was getting more and more furious. The light too was getting brighter which made it hard for me to open my eyes. I still had no idea what was going on here.

But one thing is for sure.

I Kristen Mawroh is dead.

Yet will here I am, in the arms of this unknown stranger with the strangest looking golden eyes. What usually happens after one dies? I didn't know either no one did, because one must die to find out right? But once you're dead, you're dead. So no one was able to come back and tell us what happened. If they did then that's another topic on something which is equally horrifying.

Yet still here I am. Is this normal? Is this what happens? My head is starting to hurt when questioning at that very thought.

Then I felt something. Something cold touching against me. 'The wind!' I thought. Wait huh? Something struck me too. I can feel my surroundings again! The sense of touch and heat coming back to me. I wanted to rejoice but I guess now isn't the time for that.

The light too was starting to get dimmer.

Taking it as a signal that I can finally opened my eyes I saw a white, foamy looking thing in the distant. There was more than one and they looked so fluffy as if invinting me to go and sleep on them and behind it was a blue wall of sorts with what looked like birds flying creatures together.

........ Wait!

I looked down and realised something horrible and terrifying and it was making all the hairs on my arms and legs stand, sending a cold chill down my spine.

I saw beneath me what looked like a small town surrounded by a dense forest. There were mountains to the distant too, a river flowing through the forest near the small town. But, now is definitely not the time to do some sight seeing.

My body froze up in fear. We were really, really far from the ground. As the light was starting to dissapear and I looked at the person who was carrying me. His face too, was full of shock and panic.

"JUST WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" He shouted as we slowly started to descend.

Yep. I didn't think it was possible. But I'm going to die again now.

Then I started screaming and tighten my grip around his shoulder which was starting to suffocate the poor guy but I didn't care its his fault.

Our descend started speeding up, with me screaming louder and louder as the wind was crashing against my body. The guy on the other hand wasn't saying anything.

Instead he started to laugh. Huh? Ok thank god, I thought I was the only one who lost my mind. His laugh was maniacal and scary like he was some sort of villain who's hell bent on destroying the world. Then he suddenly decided to stop. I on the other hand refused to comment or even open my eyes

"This is nothing" he said in an emotion less tone.

Just like that there was a huge explosion sound beneath me, it was definitely an explosion. Small debris of soil was hitting my little body. But it didn't hurt. I could even smell dirt in the air. The wind was still furious but after a while it calmed completely.

Slowly yet cautiously I opened my eyes but what I saw horrified me yet again. In all of my directions the soil and the trees and everything else was blown away. There was only nothing but destroyed rocks, debris of broken trees and loosen soil. It looked like someone set off a bomb here and we were in the middle of it. Looking beneath I saw his feet laid perfectly on the epicenter of the explosion. My poor little brain which was trying to figure out what had happened gave me the answer and upon realisation of what had transpired, as if on qui my body and mind decided to faint as everything faded to black.

"......"

Light. Bright glowing light. Or was it just the color of white? Nothing but white around me. I couldn't tell anymore. Maybe they're one and the same, but one thing is for sure. That is all that I can see.

Where am I?

"Did you.." A voice came. I couldn't tell properly from what direction it came from because It was faint and sounded like it came from far away. I couldn't tell who the voice belonged too.

"Did you... Stop... Go now" the voice sounded distorted and still faint. I couldn't make out what it was saying. Were they talking to me? I couldnt tell. What did they wanted?

"Please.....save.....only hop-...." The voice was getting more distant also getting more and more distorted. And then just like that it disappeared.

There was no one. Not a sound either it was dead silent. I couldn't speak, couldnt move, couldn't tell where i was or where the owner of the voice disappeared to. A feeling of dread came over me. It was creeping from my back and it felt familiar. I've felt this before, a long time ago when I was running.

It was cold, unnerving and relentless. It was taking over me. this is... This is..

Despair.

Someone, anyone. Hear me please.

"......."

The sounds of footsteps and grass being stepped on was filling my ears and it feels as if I'm floating. Wait I wasn't floating right? No I was in someone's arm. I was being carried. My body felt heavy and it was hard to move. I felt weak and tired but I still tried to open my eyes even if it was hard, it felt like all my strength was drain from me. I stared up at the person responsible for all this. I couldn't see his face, the sun was right behind him casting a silhouette on his face.

"Awake?" The person asked. I simply gave out a weak nod unable to speak. But i could feel it, it was a strange sensation. My strength was coming back to me. Like all the energy I've lost was starting to fill inside me again. But i was still weak and tired.

"That's normal" he said "when travelling through the light gate, your soul energy gets drain while trying to endure the energy coming from the light tunnel, but once you reach the other side, this place will grant you its blessing which will restore your energy"

Oh so thats it huh, even though I understood little to nothing at all. All this light gate, light tunnel, this place's blessing or anything else that came out of that guys mouth I honestly wasn't bothered about trying to understand them anymore. It was all too much to take in.

"But that tunnel earlier" he continued "it was abnormal. It was stronger and its furiousity was more than usual. No ordinary soul could have gone through it with out getting shred to peaces. Yet still you stayed intact and in one piece."

"That's scary" I whispered. But that wasn't what caught my attention.

"Soul huh? So I'm really dead?"

" yes" he said softly "I'm sorry"

"Its OK" I could only chuckle at what he said. So I really did die huh? But that's that. No point in contemplating either. Like I promised myself a long time ago. I will never hold any lingering feelings of regret.

"We're here"

I turned towards the direction in front of us. It looked like an opening different from the forest we were in earlier, the ground filled with grass was wide all leading to a hill. There was a wooden fence on top of the hill which we were heading to. It stretched out far to both sides and at the centre there was a metal gate. We were almost near it. It looked really old and rusted. I couldn't even tell the original color it used to have. As we got closer i saw something on top of it. It looked like a small metallic structure of sorts. I stared intently at it and realised that it was in the image of some sort of odd looking animal.

It had a beak, two wings, yet the body of a four legged mammal with sharp and long claws..

"Is that a griffin?" I asked.

"Yes"

"Thane!" A voice came calling. I decided to get down from his arms but standing up right wasn't easy, I still felt a little weak.

"Take it easy" a worrying voice came.

"I'm fine, im fine"

"Thane, that really you! Hey everyone, it's Thane he's back" I looked to where the voice was coming from. I saw that it was a young looking girl but I couldnt tell what she looked like since she was still far. She was running from behind the fence towards us. Behind her a bunch of people were running towards us too. There were a lot of them.

"Its Thane!" one shouted "hey buddy!" another voice came.

The girl who was leading them finally reached us as she opened the gate and came through and just like that she decided to jumped towards the guy I was with.

"Hey Kiara" he said as he patted her head. His lips formed a gentle smile and his expression soften. He looked totally different from before when he had that emotionless expression on.

"So who'd you brought this time?" She asked as she let go of him turning to me. She looked to be around 9 or 10. Her black hair was tied neatly into a pony to the back it wasn't that long either.

She had strange looking green eyes which looked at me filled with curiosity. A wide smile formed on her face along with the freckles on her cheeks, with the green dress she had on, I can tell you this she looked absolutely adorable. But one thing caught my eye. On her chest, right beneath her collar bone there was something.

It looked like a small chain and it was broken and short and not connected to anything on its broken end. There was a small round metallic object on her chest that was holding the short chain, it looked really weird and out of place. As I heard the villagers approaching me I turned towards them and they too all had similar looking chains. This was beyond normal.

I felt someone tuck onto my clothes and when I looked down I saw that it was the little girl.

"I'm Kiara and you are?"

"I'm Kristen. Nice to meet you Kiara " I answered joyfully as I patted her head. "Did Thane bring you here too?" She asked

"Thane?" I questioned back.

"Thats me" the guy said. I turned towards him and stared with narrowed eyes while putting my hands my hips.

"Hooo, so you finally decided to tell me your name?" He simply shrugged at me and looked way. I sighed in defeat and looked back at kiara.

"Kristen, um" she said with worried looking eyes while she stared at me like she wanted to say something.

"Yes Kiara?"

"Um.." She then pointed at my chest "Where's your chain of regularity?"

"Chain.." I said as I trailed off and held my chest.

"What do you mean?"

"Kiara she came here without one. She never got one in the first place" Thane said and when I turned to him he started giving me a worried looking expression. Then all the people who came started mumbling among themselves when they heard us.

"Look she really doesn't have one" one of them said

"Maybe she's a personified?" Another said.

"But she looks like a human" one replied.

What were they talking about? What chain? The chain they all had? Was I suppose to have one too? But why? Did I need one? But I didn't have one?

I have a bad feeling about this. My body was starting to shake my mind trying to make sense of the situation. A hand came to my shoulder and when I turned i saw that it was Thane. He gave a gentle smile and spoke in a soft voice.

"It'll be fine." I was starting to calm after hear his words. He was trying to reassure me, i was glad and thankful. Yes, he's right. I guess thats why he brought me here right?

First I need to calm myself down. I took in a deep breath and exhaled slowly. After calming down I heard the loud voice of a female.

"Out of my way!" I turned towards the direction of the people who gathered around us, the voice came fboy, this behind them.

"Out of my way punks! I swear I'll throw you all into the river if you dont Havana just kidding"

She smells like trouble. What she just said was really scary even uf ut was just a joke. The people started moving, giving way to whomever was shouting. When the person finally appeared a woman emerge. A white shirt and red hair that was caught in the wind. I could hear Thane grunt of annoyance behind me.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Then the person infront of me gave me a grin. Oh boy this is bad.