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"Sacrifice ... I'm not sure how I know the feeling." He followed behind her closely watching the moon hovering in the sky. Now he knew there was something more to the world around him, that darkness wasn't the only thing he could feel now. "I understand how you feel ... somehow."

((Duh duh duh!! Here it is! lol!! j/k))

Lin gasped and looked up at Ambrose when he responded that this place was his favorite place. Even more so than his own home? Wow. That touched her so much... Her home meant so much to her.

She smiled softly and kindly at him for awhile until his latest question finally registered in her mind and she felt the color leave her cheeks. Had he just asked her who her favorite professor at school was? Oh no... And she didn't want to lie. She hated to lie at any time, and she would not lie to her new friend. But, she could act as if the question wasn't that big of deal. She just really hoped that he did not see the color leave her face earlier.

She smiled, although not her normal easy smile, and pretended to think. She even put one of her long, elegant index fingers on her chin and tapped it gently. "Hmm.. Well, there are so many professors at Mystic Fountain that I greatly admire and appreciate. There is Professor Akakios that is incredible in everything, especially healing, and even tutors me in advanced medicinal herbs studies in the evening. Professor Ialo ((pretend she said his last name, please. I can't think of it at the moment.)) is also quite intelligent and fun. If I had to pick a favorite... oh... we'll just pick Professor Dymetri."

She pretended just to brush it off and quickly moved on to a question she could ask him. Any question at all to get it off the subject of favorite professors. "What is a power you wish you possessed?"

"Yes, a few more days yet." She agreed, her voice soft and seemed to be floating on the wind. After a few moments of silence, she said, "Don't tell Da, or Ambrose. It's none of their concern." She said, her voice firm now. "If anything happens, they'll just suspect it was because I messed up with a spell or something...Seriously, though, who would suspect that the feared Shadow Runner was out to do a good deed for the world? Crazy times we live in, boy-o." She murmured, shaking her head.

"You know what? I think I'm going to dance now." She said, and with a lift of her hands the scene around them began to change into an illusion. Gone went the night, the loneliness. Around them now was an extravagent dance floor, with a string quartet striking up a ballad. Running her hands down her body, her cloak changed into an evening gown, and the ribbons her father had sent her were in her hair.

"It calms me when I dance. Don't ask me why." She said, her eyes just a bit brighter when a partner she conjured up for the illusion stepped forward, offering his hand. Since she was so close, she didn't notice that the mirage looked somewhat like her father. The man she'd used to worship above all others. If anyone had told her today that she still held onto that, she'd have spat at their feet in disgust. As the man led her into the dance, she glanced over at Night, raising a brow. Do you dance, Night?" She asked, resting her head on the man's shoulder, closing her eyes.


Ambrose caught the expression on Lin's face, then blinked when she said Professor Dymetri...The vampire? "Uh...Isn't that his first name? Never mind. I'm sorry, what was your question again. Forgive me, but my mind went blank for a bit there." He said, not understanding the pressure he suddenly felt on his chest as he absently rubbed at the spot over his heart...Strange...

"No ... no I don't," He admitted looking at the conjured dancer oddly, but held his tongue knowing she would hate if he said anything. He watched Her as she danced admiring the quick change that she had put in place of the school. Altho it was only an illusion it looked like Danni would have been better off living in this world then the other.

Night didn't know what to say, but in his mind he remembered something. It was like a far off memory, and without thinking he interrupted her illusion replacing it with his own memory. The forests turned into a small town in summer. behind both of them was an old styled building made of bricks, Wooden shutters covered the windows and various Toys filled the grassy yard. The building was sitting atop a hill overlooking the entire peaceful town. A few seconds past when from the old building ran what looked like ghosts, shadows of incomplete memories. They were only the size of small kids, and the area filled with the sound of laughter. In place of Night Stood a tall Teenager with brown wavy hair facing away from her. His Dark robes were replaced with jeans and a blue button shirt, and on the back of his neck the tattoo of a dark spell caster could be seen through his hair.

"You know Danni I think I was here once ... something about seeing this place makes me remember fragments of stuff I've never seen. something about these Shadows makes me remember people I never met, and something about this town makes me remember a pointless sacrifice, and an inferno." He Continued to look down at the town, still hiding his face. Behind both of them an hazy voice that sounded like it was coming from a broken radio called and the shadows darted inside disappearing as they hit the door . "This is a night for wishes," He turned around revealing his face which looked similar to his adult form only slightly younger, "but not mine ... tonight it's your wish ... my Wishes will be forged by me alone."

Danni blinked when the scene change, looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings, not saying a word. When he said that tonight was for her wish, she ran her hands through her hair, sighed. "Do you know what I see in my 'nightmares', Night? It's another kind of future, most likely the one fate's decided on in that damnable way it has...I think you should see it...Just a little detour from our happy visions..." She murmured, and then waved her hand in front of her eyes, seemingly drawing out the memory of her vision so it looked as though Night would be looking in on a scene happening right before him.

It was a battlefield of some sort, obviously not of this area. It was a dark, rocky valley, sharp rocks coming out of the ground, covered in blood. Bodies, both demon and human, littered the ground, along with broken spears, arrows, daggers, and swords. Flames licked at the ground, set around in no apparent pattern. And everywhere there was blood.

But on a raised altar of rock in the middle of the valley where no natural light reached, torches burned in a circle, while inside its light, Arzol, Dunstall, and Gambit stood to the side, heads bowed in respect to the cloaked and hooded figure standing beside the altar, his dark hands stained with blood.

Suddenly the image zoomed in to the altar. And there was Danni, hands and legs bound and spreadeagle on the rock altar, her eyes open and unseeing. A black dagger was stuck deep in her chest, and her blood spilled over the ground. Suddenly her head lifted, and her eyes met Night's.

Out of her bloody mouth, the words came. "It's not always like this. Sometimes it's slightly different at the end, but the scene's the same." Then the scene seemed to rewind, and this time in the middle of the valley there was a deep crater-like hole. Suddenly, pulling themselves up from the crater was Dunstall, long hair singed as he looked down at what was left in the crater.

The scene zoomed again, so Night could see as well. The hooded figure lay unmoving on one end, a bright white cross suspended over its body in rebellion. Burn marks led to the other side of the crater, where Danni lay on her back, eyes opened as before, but blank and unseeing. In one hand was her sword. In the other, rosary beads. Both had died, but only one had been sacrificed.

Suddenly that scene disappeared all together, and Danni, Night, and Moe were suddenly in the middle of a lake on a boat, a light wind coming up. "I don't much like either version." She said absently, letting the wind hit her face directly.

He chuckled slightly after the visions ended. "You wanna know something Danni? There's a Race that was crafted by gods to copy the humans. You know who they are? The Silverwings The gods resented the fact that humans could act outside their will and bring them down ... so they made silverwings, but like their model they were able to break free from the gods. Kai has already defied your visions by bringing me too you, and I sure as hell won't let his chance to change a faulty prophecy die."