i am alone again

with my thoughts

nowhere

nowhere important for nobody important

it's so cold

i don't want to die here

but do i get a choice

do i get a choice?

i can feel it

my body slowly falling asleep as it gets colder

my soul

is it my soul?

my soul is tugged

tugged away

it's even colder

as if someone has stabbed me and placed ice in the wound

it burns

it burns my eyes

my eyes are burning

the ice is melting

i bleed blue onto the icy ground

where am i

where is this place

i walk

i walk in one direction staggering

then i see her

she is beautiful

but i know she is not to be trusted

her hair is long and silky and golden

a pale gold

she wears an elaborate dress of silver over her pure black skin

her eyes are orange and red like fire

my eyes are burning with hers

i can still see but it burns

my head hurts

there are more

a girl

she wears a deep red jacket and her hair is aflame

it is a black flame

her eyes are golden

they bleed down her cheeks black and red

like oil

her wrists have been slit open

she frowns at me

the other one frowns with her

they are angry

where am i

they are so familiar

there is another

almost identical to me

but there is a look in his eye

a look telling me that he could snap at any moment

i simply stand here

my leg is bleeding through my jeans

my eyes burn and my headache is worsening

what do you want from me?

Ciara

her name is ciara

the others ones are blurring

fading away

their colors turning to the pale ice and disappearing

i do not speak

it leaves me and her

we stand

making eye contact

and suddenly it isn't

i see a small girl laughing

Ciara is behind me

she tells me to watch

the girl has blue hair

she is laughing and smiling

seemingly talking to someone that isn't there

the ice beneath me begins to crack and i start to panic

i spin around to see nothing

nothing but ice

ciara is gone

i am alone with the ice breaking beneath me

why not give up?

maybe

maybe if i fall everything will go away

the ringing

why is there ringing

it sounds as if someone has bells

the little girl is gone

the ice falls near me and i step over to jump in

as i jump i brace for some kind of impact

and then there she is

another

they hold me tightly while flying with their angelic wings

they are covered with stars

if i focus

i can hear her

her name...

her name is medallion

she sets me down

then fades away into the ice

i am alone once more

my leg is bleeding even worse

blue drops everywhere

but there are black drops everywhere

they are a path which i will follow

i follow the drops

my pace begins to slow as my vision blurs

it's too cold here

i see one more

but they are blurry

i can see black and red against the blue and white

they pick me up and start walking

i start to fade in and out of consciousness

everything is blurry

i just barely see a red light and then everything is black

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"How could you betray us like that, R----? You'll be punished for this."

"If we kill the host, we will cease to exist!"

"They can not die in this place, it is a place of eternal torment."

"Eternal only if nobody releases them."

"This is wrong."

"Where did you take the host?"

"Go to hell."

"D---, get her to work."

"Of course, Ciara. R----... You'll regret this."

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