
"The heavens cry out
the earth is a sea of blood
The past is poluted with sin
The future is what I make it...
His eyes stirred, hand moved slightly as he came into conciousness with a stirring moan of pain. As his eyelids fluttered open, his hand reached to the back of his head, feeling a patch of cloth coating the tender spot on the back of his skull. His memory of what happened seemed, shady... He remembered a Sandstorm, and an annoying woman... Vash's companion... thats right... but why the loss of memory? why the pain to his head... They were attacked! thats it, one of the men who had attacked him offered a cheap shot to the back of his skull. He only remembered the moment because of the folly he had commited. For so long, his power had been gone from him. It was like a man who had lost an arm, despite the obvious void, he could still feel it as if it had never gone from him. It was his natural reaction to engage that power and split the man into tiny peices... however despite his call, there was no answer, only the black silence and dull pain in his head.
And yet... how had he come to a place like this? A simple glance towards the chair beside him was enough to answer his question. There she sat, just as he remembered her all those years ago, when she lay upon that medical table. Cold and still as a corpse, save for the natural peaceful heaving of her breath.
This was one hell of a predicament... Her voice in his ear... those words earlier that almost sent him over the edge... they werent imagined. He was now in the darkest place in the city, any place in her company was dark.