[World 609/736]
To:      Lensmoor Hoppi Dulcinea Jobe Ezme Aroura Lilith
From:    Ebriel
Subject: A Second Scar
Date:    Wed Apr  4 01:33:45 2001
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For the second time, the violet-haired sidhe child found himself alone in 
his bed. Dulcinea had vanished as abruptly as Hoppi, and Jobe and Ezme were 
nowhere to be found. Alone in the house, every shadow seemed to jeer at 
him. 
 
His thoughts in a tangle worse than any ever created by string, Ebriel 
simply stared outside at the moon, watching it cross the sky. Kialya had 
told him the stars held secrets he found himself wondering if they held 
his. He whispered into the night... 
 
Mom said Draeis wouldn't hurt me. She said he'd pay. But Draeis slashed me, 
and he's still out there...'roura said Lilith wouldn't hurt me. But now 
I've got two scars...two marks...she said she wouldn't take the eye, but 
she came awful close...and I heard what she said to Malachai. Did she 
really do it because I was too scared to talk? Could she really be that 
mean? 
 
By the time the moon was three quarters down, only a sliver remaining on 
the horizon, and the stars were disappearing, he made a decision. Perhaps 
it would change his life; perhaps it would change nothing. 
 
The last star winked at him, and blinked out. No sleep came to him that night.
 
Or the next.