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Part One
The Mirror

She was falling into a dark abyss; there was nothing there but confusion and sorrow. Down she fell passing through all of the stages of her life. The inheritance, the death of her first friend, the unperceiving luck that had followed her all her life since her birth. Perhaps that's what destiny had had in store for her since the beginning of time, but she knew that wasn't true. The only thing out there with power was the cosmos.

Sian awoke with a start and fell out of bed and onto the pile of blankets that had been tossed off by her fitful, sleeping frenzy. She moaned and cursed under her breath then brushed her golden hair out of her eyes. All of the dreams she had been having for months had built up to that mess.

Hopefully that will be the last of those dreams, that one had been the worst yet. Sian thought while noting that that dream had included all of her past dreams.

Getting up slowly and changing her clothes she noted that she had a few new bruises on her upper back. They had been showing up every time she had one of the dreams, each time the bruises and swelling getting larger and bigger. Along with that the markings that had started to grow on her hands had spread. On her right hand the markings were Silver, contrasting that on her left hand the markings were Black.

She saw the deep bags under her golden eyes from lack of sleep and noticed that she looked frailer and smaller then ever. She let out a sigh and started to make her way downstairs to make breakfast for herself and her housemate Meru.

Sian sighed as she set out to do the task ahead of her, she had to sort all of the eggs by their symbols and then place them in boxes for easy reach. Meru and her sold them to people and hoped that they would take care of the creature inside. Most of the time they did, but in a few cases they hadn't. It was a good way for them to make money though, so they didn't complain.

After awhile Sian allowed her mind to drift back to the dream she had had the other night. It had been rather horrid, filled with images of death, loneliness and a great tragedy to happen soon. She was so lost in fact that she didn't notice when the two twins came in with a blur of their red skin.

Malise jumped in with an extravagant roar of unhappiness as Malice pulled on her wings. She hissed at him with a venomous glare before turning her attention to Sian, with her blue curls bouncing about her head. "We have come to help." Malise said through bared teeth while looking back to her brother.

Malice yawned and shrugged at what Malise said, then moved his tail around ruffling his red hair. He moved his orange eyes onto his sisters yellow ones and then moved farther into the room to work.

The group of them worked in perfect teamwork for a few hours until Meru popped in. She had checked on them and their progress, fixed a few things and was now making lunch for all of them. The task was almost compleated and this filled them with energy as they finished up.

Meru entered the room with a plate full of tuna sandwiches and some pop. She wandered around the boxes and put the food onto the bed with a grin, proud at the work the other three had done.

"Food!!! About time too! I was almost dying of starvation because of these two slave drivers here!" Malice said with a rather whiney, sneering voice while pointing to both Malise and Sian.

Malise let out a shriek about how he had done nothing anyways while Sian gave a rather tired and sick shrug. She didn't feel like eating, her back was killing her where the bruises had been and to top that off the markings had spread all the way up her arms, and down her torso...