A Vision

Prologue

 A young woman screamed in agony as her body writhed in pain on the steel table she lay upon. The thick leather straps clinging to her wrists and ankles making her stay in place. Occasionally, her chest would rise as far as the restraints would allow and then she would fall back into the writhing motion. Her head was kept in place by a device that completely covered the top of the woman's cranium stopping just above her nose. Magic buzzed in the room as the wizard worked on her brain. Tinted goggle like glasses covered the girl's eyes blocking her eyes from seeing anything. Her long blond hair was tangling as it flew about disregarded in the woman's obvious pain.

"Stop it! You're hurting her!" A young man fought against two big muscly guards keeping him back. He was trying so hard to reach out for her, but his hand just couldn't reach the delicate figure that looked as though it were about to break. His sepia toned eyes watched her desperately it was the first time in a very long time that he felt absolutely helpless.

"Honestly Carter, this really is for her own good. Not to mention she asked for the procedure herself," A man in a white lab coat said calmly. He acted as though there was no screaming in the room and that he was just sitting in a room discussing some safe medical procedure that would better a persons life. This only made the young man more upset.

He shook the men off of him to turn and face the doctor. His breath came in gasps from the struggle with the body guards who stood between him and the woman. "Only because you made it sound like she had no choice!" He roared.

"Well, she had to choose something, and she chose to forget everything. She wanted to forget you I merely suggested the experimental procedure. She's afraid of you Carter, she doesn't want to be with you anymore," The doctor said truthfully. He had his hands folded behind his back completely calm in the face of this angry man.

"But why does it have to hurt her so much?" Carter broke down falling to his knees in tears. It was just too much for the young man to take. He loved the woman on the table with all his heart, but there was nothing he could do, because she had decided to leave him. She had decided to make it so she could never go back to him even if she wanted.

"Alora, we can't be here," A young man said to a girl with galaxy purple hair who was peaking through the door. "If they find us."

"But Balthier, she's in so much pain," The girl said looking at him with her opal eyes. They constantly changed color depending on how the light touched them.

"We will be in pain too if we get caught," Balthier said to her. His blood red eyes looking around the hallway in suspicion. "Is this why you wanted to come here today?"

"I saw this in my dream," She murmured to him. 

"There's nothing we can do," Balthier said grabbing at her to move her away.

"I hoped there was something I could do for her. She's so important for our futures," She said to him.

"Maybe you'll see her again, but for now there are too many people in the way for us to help," Balthier managed to pull the girl away. The two of them left the castle with the screams of the woman following them.