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Visions
Still running hard and fast her heartbeat marking the pace she could feel the burn building in her lungs and a skyward glance told her she had ran all afternoon with out a pause for rest. Feeling a little dizzied by on going memories that had been popping in and out combined with the heat of the day and exhaustion it was no wonder the thorn found her toe and she tripped falling, but not hitting the earth as she should. She simply fell on and onward descending into darkness and there hitting a sticky strand of web. It snared her by the wrist and she bounced back a bit and hit another strand with her opposing foot. The jar simply caused her to find another strand and another. She quickly was becoming tangled and then she could do nothing except dangle their helplessly. A female image appeared in the distance of the endless dark, her eyes so ruby red and glowing beautifully and her sudden laughter like a chiming of bells lilting yet heavier and almost seductive. Her face was as dark as night in it's elvish form yet she was beautiful beyond compare. Her allure began to tempt Shadow as a mother calling back her wayward child. Shadow had at first felt complete terror at the familiarity of these webs, but she now was experiencing a sad unnamed longing and she strongly desired to answer it. Just then she began to hear the soft utterances in the language used by the surface people. The tones were male and consistent as if being spoken as a spell of some kind. As she listened trying to make out the words the web began to dissolve it's hold on her and the harder she concentrated on those flowing words to decipher them the more the darkness faded into a dimly lit gloominess. Out of the distance of the web came an angry blood curling scream so malicious it made one shudder involuntarily and then the image charged forward on eight drider legs wearing an expression of the purest hatred upon her once flawlessly beautiful face, but the strange words continued to soothe and comfort. The angered beastial drider slept for a death strike, but Shadows bonds had suddenly released and she fell loose from the web with enraged shrieks echoing in her ears as she now descended closer to the warm flow of words that seemed to be reaching for her like smooth tendrils. She opened her eyes from the darkness for just a moment and found herself gazing into large luminous green eyes. One word left her lips before darkness closed in around her again..."Ceru?"
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