• ---It was once again laid out all too clearly though still protected by that delicate haze, causing the darkened vision to flit in and out of perspective. As before it once again began the same; Strong, gusting winds stirring up with the promise of a storm rushing in to the solitary figure of a woman facing out from the jutting cliffs overhanging the sea.

    The air of the warm summer night brushed over her skin with the coming of the strong winds reminiscent of a lover's passionate caress. Her full and lush lips parted in a sigh as her eyelashes drifted closed forming thick black crescents against her creme skin colored askew by the ever drifting mist left untouched by the winds.

    She turned, facing now the out stretched plains of her homeland, her back to the cliffs. The waves crashed violently against the cliff face as if in protest to her simple action of turning away. The sea spray washed over her dousing the ring of lit candles about her feet but not extinguishing their soft light. Her dark auburn hair blew around her bare shoulders and she took in a deep breath, calling the many scents of the night to her. Her lips turned up into a secret smile as her eyes opened, baring their fierce violet color to the world.

    Her eyes pierced through the shadowy mist and of their own accord and commanded the shadowy mist from her being. She lifted her arms above her head, looking like a pagan goddess with her silky white gown pillowing around her lush curves and her dark hair tossed about her shoulders. The wind lifted the skirt about her long legs as she lifted her voice in a cry to the heavens - and the storm answered, unleashing its dark stores upon the earth, drenching everything.

    Her chest lifted in excitement as her heart raced and her eyes dazzled. She began to twirl around in a hypnotic dance as the rain immersed her, making her dress cling to her body, the thin material showing her creamy skin beneath.

    Lightening danced through the sky racing from cloud to cloud. Her dance became more frantic without losing its grace. Her heart beat out fiercely; setting the beat for the rain and wind. Thunder boomed loudly across the rolling plains, shaking the foundations of the small homes scattered far and wide across the distant stretching plains. As the scene unfolded tension rang high through the air, waiting and waiting as she danced on unaware her voice harmonizing with the thunder as it cried out.

    The sound of her voice gradually faded away from existence and was replaced by the howling cry of something dark and lost, writhing it's way up from it's resting place deep within the earth to the surface in a last attempt to retrieve it's only chance at becoming whole. The ground's patina peeled away exposing the rocky soil beneath. Demons swam along the top, crying out horribly forcing the very plant life to shrink away and die. The sky grew even darker and the wind grew more turbulent. Surely they would spread their dark taint across all the ends of the earth and turn all who fall into their path to ruin.

    Onward the darkness raced towards its prize, decaying her very beloved homeland in its wake, to the woman as she froze in her dance, her arms outreached towards the darkness. With a final horrifying cry of outrage the darkness was upon her, swallowing her whole but her eyes unflinching met it head on and her mouth opened and her voice rang out clear before she was consumed completely snuffing the candles of their light and plunging everything into a deep impenetrable darkness. ---