Bird of Fire

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His fingers sparked with golden flames. It felt familiar, like a hazy memory buried deep in her mind, blurred reminders of the past-
The ground below Alex ripped from under her feet. A spider web of cracks that purple beams shone through placed themselves under her, fear and pain clawed in her throat.
"Bye bye~~" a smile made of the purest evil on his face sent chills down her spine; before Alex could react the spider web beneath her collapsed and ebony hands clasped themselves around her legs pulling Alex into the dark pit of new found horrors.
Alex couldn't hear her own screams because of her roaring heart beat in her ears. Alex was free falling. Alex was free falling into empty space. She could feel nothing but the cold hands latched to her body. Alex didn't bother struggling, she had nothing to fight for, no one was going to find her falling into nothing, not that anyone was coming for her anyway.
Blinking away the tears threatening to spill, Alex's vision cleared; the purple emptiness was fading into indigo and with this new shade of blue, broken clocks fizzed out of thin air.
Alex payed no attention to her surroundings, she was focused on where she was going, panic clawed at her chest, Alex closed her eyes in fear of the unknown. Pain shot through whole body as she crashed into the ground, her head throbbed fading out the screams surrounding her. The fall left Alex greedy for air, grasping for it, until she lost consciousness.
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Lithaen awoke at the crack of dawn, ready for the hard work awaiting her. The old cottage was silent as she dressed herself, the same every morning for the last twenty years. The lonesomeness that surrounded the cottage had not bothered Lithaen, not for a long time.

She needed food; the last time she visited the market was a few days ago, leaving her to eventually grow vicious for more food. The neighborhood she passed through was the opposite of her house: roaring, filled will life and new. Lithaen's back hair rose up
It is just another day, nothing to fear. She continued her walking and almost reached the vegetable stall before two shadow hands shot out of the ground hungry for a figure falling from the sky. Everything was happening so quickly that by the time the figure smashed into the ground Lithaen was already screaming.