I was surrounded by darkness once again. Fear filled me as I expected for the consuming darkness to come for me. I attempted to gather up power to pull myself out again, only for nothing to happen.  Actually, now that I thought about it there was a distinct lack of anything happening around me.

"hello, Is anybody there!?"  I tentatively shouted hoping to make something happen.

I waited for a few moments and nothing changed. Taking another breath I was about to call out again when a small red light blinked into existence in front of me, it was soon followed by many others. Within the array of red lights in front of me I could sense a familiar presence, one that I couldn't remember where I recognized it from. The feeling it gave was that of an beast and I felt its gaze come onto me.

We sat there watching each other for awhile not saying anything. I decided to try to break the silence but he beat me to it.

"Who are you and what do you want with me?" his voice coming out in a growl and demanding an answer.

"What do you mean 'What do you want with me?' I don't even know what or even who you are!" my voice came out indignantly.

"Don't give me that crap." he said in a snarl. "When we collided and escaped from Avgrund I wasn't expecting to be trapped in this place. Now, you will tell me who you are and you will tell me why you are holding me here!" His voice got louder with every word.

I did my best to keep my voice steady "Can I ask some clarifying questions first?"

"Why would I answer your questions if you wont answer mine!?" His red lights flared up brighter again.

I felt a shiver go throughout me and I nearly had to force the words out "Because, my answers to your questions are dependent your answers to my questions."

He sat there for awhile, saying nothing in response. My heart would have been beating hard and as more time went by but I could still feel myself shaking. Suddenly the red lights flared up brighter than they had ever before I tried to think of any way I could defend myself as they engulfed me. Then all the lights dimmed significantly leaving me tensed up in a defensive position.

His presence suddenly got really close to where my face would have been "Fine, But you only get 5 minutes, after that, if I don't have an answer to my questions I'll attack even if it kills both of us." he then pulled himself back while keeping his focus on me.

"Alright, Ill start then." It was harder to keep my voice steady but I still managed somehow.

"So to make sure you were the one I collided with inside the void, or Avgrund as you called it, correct?"

"Yes, You should recognize my essence because of our collision in there, and that place or thing is called Avgrund." 

" Yes, I recognize your essence as you call it, I just couldn't place where I recognized it from. Since you know what its name is do you know what its purpose is?"

He sat there for a moment before he spoke. "I only remember its name, but I can't remember what Avgrund is. I only know that I was put into there and that we escaped from it."

I took a few seconds to process this information and took a breath for the next question."What can you remember about yourself? Do you know who you are and what you did?"

His presence rose in indignation. "Of course I know who I am, I am...." He hesitated for a moment and then I saw the red lights around him light up as he searched through them. They started lighting up faster and faster until he had gone through most of them. He then settled down with a subdued tone in his voice. "I Can only remember being surrounded by trees and that I'm a demon." His voice became inquisitive as he asked "What about you, what can you remember?"

My voice in turn came out a little subdued as well" I remember being in a place full of structures, surrounded by the mountains. I believe I am human because the place that I was in was full of what looked like humans." I felt a connection form with the bea-- No demon in front of me. I could tell something similar happened with him as well. The feeling confused me, why did the connection form now? it was then that it dawned on me, I wasn't alone. There was someone with me that understood what I was dealing with, because he was dealing with it as well. I felt a weight that I didn't even know existed lift off of me.

With this realization I spoke to him again." I believe this has answered your question, I do not know who I am but I do know what I am like you. As for you being stuck in here I'm not intentionally keeping you here."

"If you aren't keeping me here then why am I stuck here and what is this place?" He asked

I took a moment to collect my thoughts." I've seen all these colored lights that surround us before whenever I try to see my memories. Since I can see them now I'm assuming this is the place where our memories and thoughts are stored, Ill call it our Mental Realm. If my assumptions are correct then when we collided in Avgrund our mental realms and souls combined to create whatever we are right now. Also I think you're stuck in here because I'm currently the one in control of our body."

"If that's the case then give me control of the body!"  All the red lights around him rose in brightness as he suddenly moved closer in anticipation.

I shifted around a little nervously "I don't know how. I'm not exactly well versed in dealing with our current situation. I can try to figure out how but i'm not making any promises."

"So what, I'm suppose to just sit here and do nothing while you get to have fun killing other creatures to grow stronger?" His lights turned to the brightness that I now recognized as anger.

my own anger rose within me overshadowing the connection we had formed "What makes you think I want to be a bloody thirsty savage!? I had no desire whatsoever to attack that thing nor eat it!" the words came out in a rush and I sat there in the deafening silence that followed. 

That silence was shattered as he let out a laugh. This laugh was no ordinary laugh however. I felt a coldness seep into me, a coldness I now recognized as fear. I froze when he suddenly stopped laughing and spoke to me in a quiet voice, his words laced with spite. "......Thing? You're calling another of your race a 'thing'?" His voice began rising until he was yelling. "ARE YOU REALLY THAT PATHETIC!?"

"What! n-" before I could even get my denial out of my mouth I felt him move away, leaving me behind with one word echoing withing me "Pathetic."

I sat there, speechless, not knowing what to do. Then a pulling sensation came to me  and everything around me faded to black. My eyes opened to the small crevice I had placed myself into and I numbly uncurled myself to crawl out. Now outside I stood there looking at the scenery laid out before me. How long had I been here? days? Weeks? I couldn't tell I hadn't seen anything resembling a day and night cycle. The only difference I had seen in any of the scenery was the change from plains to mountains. I looked out seeing only as far as the wall of mist in the distance allowed me and I realized how empty everything seemed.

From this realization came the realization of how alone I felt. Images of the demon and his words flashed into my mind. Anger filled me up as I lashed out and slammed my fist against the side of the mountain. As quick as the anger came, it went. Physically it left pain in my fist which I wrapped my other hand around it trying to stifle that pain.  Emotionally I was conflicted, I knew he was right, how couldn't I? I didn't want to accept that I had killed another human who would? Even worse I may have consumed his soul and by doing so completely wiping him out from existence. This realization brought a whole new wave of nausea  and my knees slowly collapsed inward leaving me kneeling there on the ground. I knelt there for a bit, just breathing, trying desperately to keep myself from collapsing internally as well.

Regret and loneliness filled me. I had done something that could not be undone. What about the little girl? was she still alive? Was she looking for her father now, never to know that he was now dead because of me? My body started shuddering in what I realize as an attempt of me to start crying but I was unable to do so. And as for the demon? He was my only chance so far of even having someone simply to speak to and I hadn't even been able to do that right.

I stayed there for awhile longer until I dragged myself to my feet and walked away from the crevice. I turned and looked up the mountain path and I felt a feeling I hadn't felt before. The feeling told me that if I went up that path I would leave this place and again be among the living. My desire to escape from this place was strong but at the same time a deep feeling of unworthiness came over me. Why would I, someone who had done what I did, deserve to be given the gift of life? I turned around again and walked away from the mountain heading again into the hills.