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“What should I do?… can I even move forward?”… Violet wondered as he stood there his hands unable to even clench into a fist. But something was moving… the ripples of distortion showed that clearly… the dweller of the void was clawing it’s way to violet, its body flickering in and out of reality. It’s body jagged like shale rock, never solid -always shaking like a reflection on disturbed water. The creature increased its speed clawing into the old wooden floor of the mansion and lunged with its twisted…flickering hand stretched towards violet. But then sagillus pulled violet towards him….with a big smile on his face.

“ you lost or just nervous…heh violet?” he playfully says as he drags violet along, and as he walks he turns his head slightly back and laughs a little. Violet shudders and comes to realize he can move again, and turns to see sagillus’s reassuring smile…so he takes a deep breath and with a breaking voice says “well of course I would be nervous I….I don’t know where am from or who I am…and to top it off I am in a house with strangers” violet says as he clenches his hand. Sagillus lets go of violet and walks toward an open door. “man bummer but I know something that can help…which is…. drumroll please…a good nights rest” sagillus says with with a reassuring smile.                                  Violet: you smile too much you know…and I don’t think sleeping magically fixes problems…                                          Sagillus: yeah maybe…..but it gives your mind time to rest, look violet everyone here has gone through a lot of pain….pain that most in this world have not felt…around here we try to erase that pain…so share it with us and we will share ours.

Sagillus says with a stern voice that shudders under his breath. And as he walks away he waves goodbye to violet. Violet stares at sagillus with a curious look but then his right eye shudders and violet puts his hand over his eye clearly in pain and as he lifts his hand, there is a faint piercing cold blue glow emanating from his eye. And as violet walks through the open door a humming echo ripples through the corridor. As reality shifts the walls seem to be full of decay…as violet closes the door.

As the days went by I secluded myself trying to figure out how to adjust to this situation and each day I noticed a pattern….that each morning lunearl wakes up the earliest to start her routine training, and that mo`r wakes up the latest and seems to be fond of reading….and when it comes to torrence and sagillus they disappear for hours on end but when they are home they seem to compete on any small matter. It gets to a point where I find myself smiling looking at them….and when it comes to miss Aesa and Atlas they are inseparable, Atlas is like her paladin…protecting her and she needs it because of her airhead tendencies.

Even around this warmth I choose to be distant, but something odd then happened this morning… as I was walking to the toilet lunearl came over with a bright smile her canine fangs gleaming in the sun.

She called me over to train and I reluctantly agreed and she spent hours destroying my spirit…over and over she out did me….So there had to be a reason why she was pushing so hard in her training, so I asked her:

Violet: “lunearl why do you training so hard?” violet asks as he stands from the ground.

Lunearl: why do you ask…. you looking for a weakness?

Violet : no….that’s not what I meant

Lunearl:” I was just pulling your leg…how about this ,if you ever beat me in sparring I’ll tell you” she said in a proud tone.

And because of that day with lunearl I found myself interacting with the others more. To a point where I would read books with mo`r and cheer on torrence and sagillus..I was truly becoming part of their family .

Violet ended all his nights with a fall on the bed but tonight, when he jumped onto his bed an old torn book fell onto his lap…. and it blew through the pages and landed on the name “ shale hollow” violet said as his voice shuddered and his face turned pale. And as he starred at the book, his head started to spin and sharp pains filled his body as images flashed through his mind.

End of chapter 1