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05/25/08

Your Herald is now a child with a personality all her own. Except for the wings, it's almost easy to forget that she was once an angel, isn't it? Even she seems to have forgotten. But the past hasn't forgotten her...

Your Herald has been dredging up odd bits and phrases from some hidden corner of the mind.

What are the words? What do they mean, and how does this fragment of memory return?

Full Name: Fiona Blair Rain
Nickname: Fona, B,
Birth Date: ?
Birth Place: A feild on Cassie Rains' Property
Age: ?
Race: Herald
Hair Color: orange
Hair Style: mid back length
Eye Color: Emerald
Skin Tone: lightly tanned
Any Scars or Distinguishing Marks: none
Build or Body Type: ?
Height: ?
Weight: ?



Bad Habits: twisting her hair
Strong Points: Postive thinker, never judgmental
Temperament: Hyper
Weakness: seeing Cassie sad
Fears: spiders
Feels Vulnerability When: alone
Pet Peeves: mean and rude people
Motivation: Cassies' happiness
Exercise Routine: rideing her bike when cassie jogs and playing with all their pets
Speech: smart and overly loud when shes exicited about something
Optimist or Pessimist: Optimist
Favorite Music: Same as what Cassie listens to
Favorite Books: Picture and fiction
Favorite Foods: Grilled Chesse and Raman
Favorite Drinks: Milk and grape juice
Favorite Animals: the Mongeess
Favorite Color: orange
Favorite Clothing: bright t-shirt, long skirt or shorts or pants, dresses
Favorite Games: trouble
Favorite TV Shows: cartoons
Favorite Movies: funny



Personality: Always happy and hyper. loves to play the violin, likes to swim and play with the animals and lay out in the sun

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Cassie and Fiona met Kain and Bethan in the towns.
Fiona really likes Kain, and beign that he is the first herald she has ever talked to means nothing

When you come upon the scene, it is a weak and dying Herald that you find, unable even to stand. A few scattered feathers on the ground are the only remnants of the wings it once possessed. It has come to this place to die...or be saved? That, of course, is up to you.

You are alone when you find the angel. The Heralds have long gone unsaved, and though it appears to you, it does not hold much hope of living on. Near to where the two of you meet rests a grey stone slab that the angel seems desperate to reach. With your help, the Herald climbs upon it, needing something from you to save its life. What will you choose to give it? And what significance does that item hold for you? Is it a family heirloom? Something you happened to have on hand? Something you'd purchased earlier that day? A lucky charm?


The Sacrifice

Cassie Rain was packing up her gear just befor dawn. Zoe something-a-rather had highered Cassie to take pictures of bats for her magazine, and bats being nocturnal she had been up all night. She used a specail light so she could get quality pictures of the bats without harming them with bright lights. When she finished packing all her things into the side car of her motorcycle she climbed onto the bike and pulled on her helmet and goggles. She had been up all night and was hungry, so she went to one of those 24 hour places and picked up some stuff to eat. She sat and drank a half pint of milk while eating a cinniman bun before setting off again, desiding to leave the rest of her food for when she got home.

The large motorcycle sped down the highway, heading out of town. Cassie turned off the highway and onto an old country road, which in short was really her driveway because there were no other houses on the road. As Cassie yawned a little she notices light coming from a clearing that was a little ways up the road.

thats odd...

she thought as she drove a little fast to get closer not wanting to miss it, what ever "it" was. When she reached the area were the light was coming from she noticed

I know this area... dear like to graze here...

But there were no dear in the clearing, not today. At first she didnt know what to think, slowly she pulled her goggles down around her neck to get a clearer look. There a little ways from the tree line was the sorce of the light. A being was slowly drifting to the ground feathers fluttering around it. Quickly Cassie dug into her side car and pulled out her camera quickly she took several pitures of the sight. She then put the camera back into the side car and jumped from her bike. She moved across to the field and jumped the ditch to the field, as she neared the light faded away. Cassie knelt beside the figure. She looked at the beings face and saw unearthly blue eyes.

For a moment their eyes were locked until the beings eyes closed in a wince of pain. Cassie gasped and thought,

Ok. This being just fell from the sky,

She looked around at the last of the white feathers around them,
and it looks like it lost its wings. Cassie took in the sight of the pale white being with even lighter hair. She was unable to tell the gender, but nontheless "it" was beautiful with those shocking blue eyes.

While the woman was thinking this the being was trying to move. Cassie put her hand on the heavenly creature and said,

"Let me help you."

The being nodded and Cassie scooped "it" into her arms and started to walk back to her bike. Before she could explain her actions the creature started to struggle franticly. Cassie carefully dropped to her knee and sat the being down, afraid she might hurt it. When put down, the white thing pointed. Cassie turned to see what it was pointing to, and saw a large stone slab in the middle of the feild.

"I dont understand why you want to got there, but i understand that you do so i will take you there."

Cassie scooped the being into her arms again and started to walk toward the stone. As she walked she sorted through all the myths she had read and heard about,

What kind of beings fall from the sky, and beings without a gender? That narrows it down quiet i bit...not a god, thats for sure. A sprit maybe or a Spirit. What! I know this being is a fallen angle! A Herland? No thats not it..A Herald! thats right... now... why do they fall, right a fallen messanger. No wings? Oh i remeber! This poor soul is dieing and needs a sacrifice right?

Cassie and the being reached the stone and carefully Cassie lay it on the cold stone. The Herald lay out on the frigid stone and sighed softly.

It needs a sacrifice...

The first item that came into Cassie's mind was the tiger striped helmet she still wore. Quickly she removed the helmet from her head and lay it beside the beautiful creature.

"Please. Take this and live."

The beautiful person infrount of Cassie lay a hand on the helmet and a light started to glow around it. As she watched the light grew brighter. Just as she moved to cover her eyes from the blinding light she saw her helmet starting to fad away. When the light fadded away Cassie looked again to see the Herald not moveing and her helmet gone. For a moment she feared that it was to late, but then the Herald opened its eyes.

Just then a frigid wind blew and caused Cassie to shiver a little. Quickly she pulled off her jacket and lay it on the Herald.

"I'll be right back ok?"

The herald closed its eyes but Cassie caught its slight nod befor she ran back to her bike. After a moment of digging Cassie pulled several things from her side car and ran back to the herald. Gentally Cassie took the jacket back from the Herald who looked at her almost angry that she was takeing away its warmth. But then Cassie wrapped the blanket, she herself had used less than an hour befor to stay warm, around the herald. She then took another blanket and wrapped that one around it too, this one was water proof and she usually used it to keep her gear dry. The cold air blew again, this time the Herald pulled the warmth of the blankets closer. Cassie sat on the stone and pulled the herald against herself. She had noticed when moveing the being that it had been almost deathly cold.

"i dont have much, but would you like something to eat?"

Slowly the Herald nodded and looked up at Cassie who smiled down at it. The sun was starting to rise as Cassie fed the herald and help it drink the milk. When she had finished the sun was up and it had warmed considerably. Suddnely Cassies watch started beeping, she turned it off and looked at the herald who leaned against her asleep. Carefully she lay the being down on the stone using part of the blanket as a pillow she then hurried to her bike and sped off home. She had to take her meds on time or she was in deep trouble...

A New Friend

Befor she knew it Cassie had fallen alseep due to the fact that she had been up for almost seventy-two hours. When she woke again it was almost sun down and she was hungry. The fair being that still rested against her was sleeping again. The human looked around and could just barely make out the shadows of the animals at the tree line. For a moment she thought about trying to take the being to her home were she knew she would be able to keep it safe. But she had the feeling that if she tried to leave with the herald the bear wouldnt be understanding. It seemed to her that the Being had a conection with the animals and that was way they were hanging around.

With a bit of regret Cassie lightly shook the being awake.

"Im sorry, but i need to leave again...will you be alright?"

At first the being was unhappy to be woken from its restful peace. But as Cassie spoke it nodded its head.

At the beings response Cassie stood and left the stone. With each step she took the critters at the tree line took a step closer to the herald. By the time she jumped the ditch back to the road, the animals were all around the herald again. She jumped onto her bick and took off back down the road toward her house, this time however she didnt go as fast.

When she got home she parked the bick and climbed off, this time going around to the stairs and walking up them. she unlocked the door and was bombarded by her critters again. She greeted them with a tired voice,

"hey guys, did ya miss me?"

Slowly she made her way into the house her multatude of pets slowly getting out of her way. Quickly she made her rounds to make sure that everyone had water and food. Then she down to the basement were she had alot of storage, after a while of digging though the masses of things she would most likely never use Cassie pulled several flash lights, a sort of mat that folded out into a chair, and two fleece sleeping bags and a bag that was the quivalent of a cooler. She then carried these things back up stairs and out to her motorcycle, and packed everything away other than the bag. she took that inside and to her kitchen.

For a few minutes she dug around in the cubards pulling out tupperwear containers of all shapes and sizes. When she had gotten what she needed the woman put the containers on the counter and went about makeing food to fill them with. Again she made several sandwiches, this time grilled cheese. When each sandwich was done she wrapped it in foil to keep it hot then put it in a foil lined container. While cooking the sandwichs she also made chicken flavored raman. When that was done she put it into a insalated contaier.

Then she looked around for something eles she could take that wouldnt be too messy. Her eyes landed on a bag of potato chips, she took the bag up and opened it them emptied it into one of the bigger containers. Then she went to her frezzer and pulled out a bag of chicken fingers and put them into a deep frier, they would only take about 5 mintues to cook. while waiting for them to cook she made her way up stairs to her room. Cassie took a small box and put her pills for tommorow into it and stuck it into her pocket. As she was walking out of her room she saw a book of Scottish names. She picked it up and flipped through it looking for a name she could run past the herald so she could call it by some name. "Fiona" poped out so she read the meaning "meaning Fair or white."

"Perfect i think."

The chicken still had a little while left untill it was finished so cassie took severa boxes of juice and other drinks from the cubard and put them into the bag along with each of the boxes, just as she was finisheing that the timer for the chicken went of. Cassie turned off the heat for the oil and took the chicken fingers out and let them dry a moment before packing them away into a container and then into the bag. She then went to a small room were she stored things for her pets, after a moment she collected a food and water dish, then a small bag of food. Cassie then took all these things out and packed them into her side car. It was supriseing how much stuff she could fit in the thing.

Cassie then went back inside and looked at her numerous pets, then called

"Sandy come."

The mongoose that looked exactly like a Springbok (african wild dog) looked up at her then skittered to her side. Cassie knelt and scratched the critter behing the ears a little befor putting her into a harness then takeing an extition leash and stake. She gathered these things up and heafted her second largest mongoose up and carried her out to her bike, locking the door as she went. Cassie loaded up and made sure Sandy was secure in the side bag befor heading off back to the feild were the herald was.

When she arrived by the feild again the woodland animals were still there, the sun was going down and she was looseing light. Cassie said

"Stay Sandy. stay."

The mongoose stay were she was as Cassie jumped over the ditch this time she didnt land on a twig. she softly called to the Herald,

"Im back again and i brought a friend."

Slowly Cassie approched and the animals moved away this time. When the woman reached the heralds side she asked.

"Would you like to meet my friend?"

For a moment the being looked at the human befor nodding. Cassie smiled and whistled. Sandy jumped from the bag and bounded over the ditch, then to Cassie and into her waitng arms. She turned to the Herald and said,

"This is Sandy, do you want her to stay with you when im not here?"

Cassie squated holding Sandy out so the herald could reach out if it wanted to. Sandy streatched her neck trying to get closer to the herald to sniff it. After a moment of inspections the herald reached out to pet the intresting critter. Sandy sniffed her hand as it went to pet her. After a moment Cassie let the mongoose climb into the Heralds lap were she curled up and was petted.

"I have a few things i need to get, but im only going to my bike ok?"

The herald nodded content with its new friend. Cassie straitened and went back to her bike takeing the mats, flash lights and sleeping bags from the car and jumped the ditch putting them near the stone slab, then she returns for the food and drink. When she was by the heralds side again she started to explain.

"I brought a few things to make you more comfortable. A mat, that you can use if you wish to sit up but relax as well, another blanket, this one is extreamly warm. I also brought more food. Grilled chesse, chicken raman, and chicken fingers. Here is the mat, can i set it up for you?"

The herald inspected the mat for a moment then nodded. When it did Cassie took it and set it up so the herald could sit on it and eat easily, then she lay the water proof blanket cross the mat and unzipped a sleeping back and lay it out so the being could sit on it whlie on the mat. She then helped the fair being to sit on the mat, once comfortable Cassie zipped the sleeping bag up around the herald so that it was up around its middift, then she took the second blanket from befor and wraped it around the beings sholders, then she took the water proof blanket and folded it up around the being to keep it dry.

"Do you have a name?"

The herald shook its head as Sandy moved back into its lap to be pet some more.

"Can i give you one?"

It nodded yes,

"How about Fiona? Its scottish, and means "fair" or "white", i think that suits you..."

The fair being thought on it for a moment then nodded yes again with a smile on its face.

"Well then Fiona, I dont think i have told you my name yet, it is Cassie Millia Rain, and i am honored that you accepted my helemt as a sacrifice for your new wings."

As she spoke Cassie took the food from the insalated bag and asked,

"what would you like, soup or sandwichs?"

She held up the two items. Fiona looked at them a moment then pointed to the sandwichs. Cassie similed and took a sandwich from its container and put it into the its hand. Fiona bit into it and started to eat. her free hand was petting Sandys back. Cassie noticed this and started,

"Do you like Sandy? I have had her for a while, not as long has Shori though. Shori is my largest Mongoose, i have had her the longest. The funny thing is, when i got her she was the runt of the litter and her mother wouldnt care for her, so i took this tiny baby into my home and cared for her. Sandy, she is my second largest. I have a lot of pets, Fish and mongeese and even some dragons. Not large dragons mind you, the largest is about the size of my fists like this"

Cassie put her fists togeather to dimonstrate. Like that cassie talked on and on, she was not usually a talkitive person, but the herald didnt talk back to her so she didnt feel judged. And so that was how she passed the night.