The only way to get through with hearts and wrists intact is...

Just a quick note; a little something I'm working on. Sorry if it's a bit boring but please let me know how you feel about this. Btw, for future reference the name Aeron will be popping up a lot. Some people struggle with reading this name, I pronounce it; Air-ron, but you can also pronounce it; A-ron. =] Hope you enjoy.

Two girls sat upon a hillside over looking a small, remote town. It was a high up, slightly hidden place perfect if you just wanted a little bit of peace and quiet. A small gravel path led up to it from the side of the houses and most of the surrounding hilltop was covered in trees. The girls sat torwards the edge of the hill close together watching the setting sun dissapear slowly. It filled the sky with beautiful colors of red and orange and cast a strange light upon the town.

The girl on the right looked at peace, the girl on the left looked somewhat uneasy and fidgeted a lot. She didn't like this town. For some reason it felt so strange and wrong to her, and the people were solid believers. As the setting sun progressed down the sky she grew more still and calm, as if the sun in the sky was unnatural and horrible for her but she welcomed the coming darkness. Her companion however did not. This girl was the picture of sunshine and rainbows. She had a slightly round, soft, friendly face which was domaniated by a slightly large mouth with buck teeth, and doeful brown eyes. When she smiled though it was like she was smiling out everything nice and people were immediatly infected by it. When she moved her head her soft, blonde curls fell about her shoulders. In this half light, one could almost mistake her for an angel if they did not know any better.

She had turned her mind away from the sunset and was now studying her friend closely watching as she gradually became more comfortable and relaxed. Her friend looked at her from out the corner of her eye.

'What's up, Cass?' Cassie gave her friend a quick, bright smile and looked away again. After a few seconds her smile wavered and her face fell back into the same confused and puzzled look that she had before. She was trying to figure something out, but it was evading her. She calmed her mind for a moment as the sun finally set, dissapearing off the face of the Earth until morning. Darkness began to set in slowly. Enveloping themselves and cloaking the town below them so that you could hardly make out the tiny wooden houses. Everything was still now. No one was around but them. Beside her, her friend gave a big intake of breath. Inhaling ths cold, sweet air. For Cassie the night always brought with it an uncomfortable feeling and a sense of being in danger. Like it did now. She opened her mouth and worded out a preyer silently. It would do until she got home. When she looked at her friend she was just sitting there with her legs crossed looking out at the night sky which was beginning to get dotted with tiny little stars, and a bright moon was hidden behind wispy nightclouds.

'It's what you like isn't it?' She finally asked tilting her head forward slightly to better see her friend. It was hard to make her out in the failing light but she could see well enough for the moment.

'What do you mean?' Her friend replied. Cassie paused for a moment, trying to piece together what she was going to say.

'The night, the darkness. It doesn't affect you like it does to other people. Most folk fear it. The night brings with it a deep blackness where thing's can conceal themselves from our eyes and attack without us ever knowing that they were there. I like the daytime because it gives me back my vision and shows the world to me. The light is something that is pure and it helps the world to grow. The light is safe.' Cassie paused again, hugging herself slightly. Because she was cold or because she was afraid she didn't know. 'I don't understand why you prefer the night to the day, that's all. You seem more at home with it. Does it not make you afraid, Aeron?' She turned to look at her, and Aeron could see Cassie's big eyes shine with curiosity and fear in the dark.

'There is nothing to fear,' she replied simply.

'The night brings out creatures of the blackness. It gives them power and strength that the sun gives to living creatures. They hunt their prey under the cover of night. There is plenty to fear.'

'You know what I think?' Aeron asked, and Cassie waited for her answer. 'I think that they been feeding you all that religious nonsense again, Cass. It's getting to you, it's making you imagine thing's that arn't there.'

' I have known you for, what is it? 13 years now? When you first came into the town. We took you in, we fixed you up. When everybody else had outcasted you, I was there for you. I became your best friend, and you became like a sister to me.' In all of this Cassie had become a little bit heated, her voice did not have it usual airey feel. Her voice was stronger and sharper now.

' You became my sister too. You know how grateful I am for all you've done for me. I have said it often enough.'

'13 years, Aeron. That is a long time to know somebody.' She stopped and gave Aeron a meaningful look. Aeron was rather taken aback. Surely Cassie was not suggesting something. 'Still, there are thing's I do not claim to understand about you. There are strange thing's about you, thing's that are not normal behaviour. You are a Lost Soul, Aeron. Why will you not let us help you?' Beside her Aeron stood up and stormed a few paces away.

'What idocy this is, Cassie. Lost souls? Is that what they have been teaching you? Then I am glad that they have not helped me. I do not like to talk rubbish.' She trailed off, mumbling about 'lost souls' to herself. Cassie stayed seated watching Aeron pace warily.

'What do you suppose I believe then? I am a town girl and I have been raised in the traditions of the town and the Church. That is what is important to me. What I have been tought is valuable, it has given me purpose and life. Why do you turn away from me, and refuse your sister's helpful hand?'

'Because it it nonsense, Cassie!' Aeron turned on her friend, rage filling her. 'They've put you up to this, haven't they. I am not falling for it. Everything they teach is LIES.'

'Lies?' Cassie cried standing up now to and facing her friend head on. 'They teach us of the truth! Did you know for example, that they teach of names and of the Fallen Angels?' Aeron stopped and turned around. Her friend stood infront of her not looking so angelic like now. She was breathing hard and her hair looked somewhat fierce and wild.

'The fallen angels is just another of the stories that they teach you at your stupid nursery school, Cass. Along with god and the rest of them. Stories, Cass. Not real. Fiction.' She went to turn away but stopped when Cassie began to sneer at her.

'Do not turn your back on me, Lilith.' Aeron whipped around her face frozen.

'Do not use that name. It is not my name!'

'Is it not good enough for you? Hm? Was it too bad a name that you changed your name to Aeron? Warrior wasn't much of a better choice for you. People get lost in the darkness, but I doubt that you have ever been Found. You are taken from the blackness and you run with wild creatures. You don't even know where you came from, you said that yourself. Or do you wish to not remember? Is this is all just part of your scheming evil lies?'

Aeron stood frozen on the spot. she could not believe what she was hearing. Her face screwed up and she stood alone. Her eyes full of tears that trickled down her face.

'They have turned you against me, Cassie. Do you not see that? They have brainwashed you with lies and nonsense to make you turn your back on me. I cannot lose you. You are my sister, I need you.'

'I loved you, Aeron. But I will not betray my people. This world is full of opposites, you know that as well as I do. There is good and evil. Right and wrong. Up and down. I believe in my God and his Angels and his Paradise. That means that there must exist an opposite.' Aeron stepped forward slowly but Cassie flinched away. She was afraid. Afraid of her own best friend. 'I have lost you Aeron. You are going down a path I cannot follow.'

'They have corrupted you, Cassie. They have ruined you!' Was all Aeron could say. She was in immense pain. She was being turned away, outcasted by the last person.

'Corrupted? You would know all about that. I have seen it with my own two eyes, sister. So do not say I lie. You are Lost. He has taken you from your path to life and corrupted you. But you don't see it. I know what you seek to become and I cannot be apart of that. You have chosen your fate. I must say goodbye now.' When Cassie looked up again her cheeks were tear stained and dirty. Her hair was all over the place and she looked distraught. 'I tried. I tried to save you. But you are beyond help. You have fallen into a deep abyss in which you will not escape. When the time comes you will realize that, but some part of me knows that this is what you have seeken all along. This is what you wanted for yourself. I wish it was not so because it breaks my heart to lose you. But I cannot save you. Goodbye, sister. I have always loved you.'

With that Cassie turned her back on Aeron and ran away. Back to her village, back to her Church. Aeron wanted to open her mouth to explain, to cry, to yell out but she couldn't. Her mouth dried up and she felt weak at the knee's. This is what Cassie had left her for. Aeron kneeled on the floor and became invisible in the blackness.