ooc - Forest of Nod, on the border. Dawn.
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She hadn't been sleeping properly. There was a restlessness to her mind, a constant shifting of dark secrets and guiltiness that made her unstable and uneasy. It was an uncommon sight to see the hippie girl awake so early, but the cool dark air welcomed her into its embrace. It had been a few days since she had slept decently at all.
She sat beside the border at the base of an old pine, knees tucked beneath ivory and blushed chin, lapis lazuli gazing blindly into a world beyond the seen. There were so many new things to consider in her increasingly claustrophobic world. Her brother - Dark Micah, wonderful Micah - had come to his sisters at last. But at what price? Razekiel remained absent, his name just a phantom whisper between the children of Juniper Peace.
The dark hungry earth of Inferni sapped her dry, but she found herself unable to cross past the borders anymore. The skulls mocked her weakness, and she had tried once - In the sunlight. But her muscles had trembled and faltered, and she had been unable to go. Unable. Not since the night she had met Samael Lykoi had the girl ventured into the land beyond Inferni.
This had other consequences. It had been a fair time now since she had seen the golden-pelted demon known as Itachi. His red eyes, so similar in hue to her uncle's, haunted what little sleep she had. It seemed China's fickle mind was slowly degenerating, and the silver songbird was voiceless, protestless. Nobody realised that she was being eaten away on the inside by such an insidious and invisible foe.
The pale arch of the sun had just begun to kiss the sky, casting arches of soft blue and pink in spears across the gentle navy of retreating night. It was a sight that once would have inspired her to awe and love, to draw the reed pipe from beneath her bandages and play with the trills of awakening birds. But now, her empty palms turned down to the cold earth and grasped fistfuls of dirt, watching the small grains run through her fingers. Run, run, run.
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