I'm a straightforward girl. I see what I like and I take it. It's been the same when I was little and it's still the same now. So when I went out clubbing with my friends that night and I saw this highly attractive guy, I just knew I had to have him...
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This familiar darkness.
I stood atop a hill of obsidian, gazing down into the gaping maw of chaos as translucent figures convulsed and intertwined.
Their voices called to me, a gentle whisper to soothe the turmoil crippling my heart.
They wanted my acceptance. They wanted my permission to bond. To become the most powerful being known to man.
I... I was afraid.
I stood alone, burdened by the words left behind by my people.
Take that step and enter.
Let the spirit choose you.
Why? Why did I have to do this? Would it hurt? I didn't like pain. I didn't like spirits. I didn't like this.
I clutched my hand to my chest, my eyes refusing to stray from the source of my future. The rift between earth and the spirit realm.
Parasites, my sister called them.
I'd seen what they'd done to her, to other members of the clan.
I didn't want that for me.
Please.
Something nudged me forward, and I panicked, my short arms flaring to catch nothing but air. My body instantly felt weightless as I plunged into the abyss below.
I screamed, but that was quickly engulfed by the malevolent creatures that wrapped their black, shadowy arms around my young body.
The moment my body entered their grasp, the air buzzed with excitement. With me at the center, the pit convulsed as every spirit rushed to take me for themselves.
They didn't see me as anything but a mere husk for their souls to rest, tugging at my body greedily to keep me for myself. My skin tore as my body stretched to their hungry whims, eliciting a scream that pierced through the dark.
"Stop!"
My tears diluted my blood as pain ripped apart my body. I couldn't stand it.
Mother lied to me.
She said the pain would be fleeting, but nothing was fleeting about this process. It didn't matter that the pain would eventually pass. It was so unbearable that my mind couldn't fathom it ever leaving. I wanted to end everything.
Please, kill me.
I didn't want this.
I bit my tongue as the spirits tried to forcibly enter me, but none succeeded. I wasn't compatible with any of them. I couldn't leave this place without bonding with a spirit.
Something slammed into the back of my head, forcing my neck to twist in an awkward position. I gasped for breath, my mind going blank.
I... knew I wasn't dead. Humans couldn't die within this rift through space.
