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We're both in pain now, my dearest friend. And I can sense yours so easily, I wish I could help you more somehow, I thought. I turned and bowed my head even though she was splashing me and looked at her deeply, "I mean it....and if you do anything stupid I will find you even in the afterlife and kick your butt", I said with a grin. My expression then softened and I smiled, "I'm always with you....Takara", I said and swam slowly to the shore where I put on my belt and sandals and looked back at her one more time. We may echange our pain but we can never exchange our sufferings.

I walked away and sat down against a tree away from everyone for the moment and curled myself into a ball against the tree. I closed me eyes tightly and I cried silently, because of the pain that I was in. Maybe some of it was emotional but there was much physical pain now too. I whsipered softly,"Mommy....daddy....don't let it get me....please help me". I cried more hearing myself say it, for I knew they were gone, gone a long time ago. With a short cry I let myself collapse and didn't move against as I closed my eyes and I fell into a dark and uneasy sleep. A sleep that I continously tossed and cried in.

Takara had gotten out of the water before Damian had fallen and stopped himself from doing so. While she was out she quickly grabbed her things and headed off to the wooded area, for she needed time to think things through. "Sorry guys, I know I've been such a disappointment to you all. Give me time and I'll be back to normal." she whispered as she found a path and headed down it.

As she was walking down the path, she recalled that she only had a few days left before getting all of parth's shard back together again. Shaking her head, she knew that she had failed him as well, looking down at the ground she saw something shiny laying there. Carefully she bent down and picked it up and smiling she realized that here was one of his shards within her hand. "Well this is a good sign, guess I'll just have to continue on looking for his pieces." she stated as she continued walking down the path.

She continued walking about looking around the ground in hopes to find another piece of Parth's shard. Sighing when she had gone a couple hundred of yards and still nothing, she decided to head back to the others and see if they would like to help out since the sun was already rising and showing its glory upon the sky.

As she made it to the opening of the woods she saw Damian sitting there rocking himself as if he was mediating on something, slowly she approached him and gently place her hand upon his back and softly said, "Damian, are you okay?"

I stood up never taking my eyes from the lake. It is my fault....it grows because of me. I walked towards the lake. I was ready to give in to it, I was too tired to fight it. I wasn't one to be toyed with as it seemed to be doing to me. When I reached tha lake I saw Damaian and Takara and slowly went over not wanting to interrupt anything. "Takara...would you like to go look for jewel shards", I asked. It surprised myself, for I hadn't even thought of it, though it would keep me busy a while longer, which at the moment seemed like a very good thing.

"Okay Takara", I said and began carefully scanning the ground and trees. For I knew that they could be aynwhere. We began to walk slowly, I stayed near but a couple paces away from Takara. "So Takara...how do we now when we have found all of them", I asked wondering if there was an exact number of shards or if we would just have to guess when...

I looked and nodded my head smiling a tad, "Well thats good". I went a little farther from her and found one shard and then another and then one more before going to Takara. "Here's three", I said hoping there would be some more big pieces out there.