Have you ever experienced pure darkness? Not like going to sleep, but the kind that drags you in and holds you captive as you suffer. Just like a fish on land, you can't breathe. Maybe being at the bottom of an ocean would be a better analogy.
For a boy without friends, who sits alone eats his lunch that his mother made him, it's perfect. He's lost and confused, and to him the night is terrifying, because it reminds him that he's alone.
He's seen the demons that try to hide from humanity. He's heard the screams at the result of a bottle mixed with the popping of pills, seen the distruction it's caused. Watelands and ghost towns are all he knows. He lives in pure darkness. It's his home.
I guess we're all a little afraid of the dark. Sometimes it becomes too much for us, and we lose our numbers. But for everyone that is lost, a guardian is created, to hold the lights high to help us sleep through the night to comfort us in our time of darkness, because they know what it's like.
They see those demons who hide, but hold their lights proudly, because they all have the same dream. They dream of a day, where they are no longer needed. A day where no one will fall to the darkness ever again.
