The Light in Darkness

1:3 - After Dark

Chapter 1.3 - After Dark

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I've made many mistakes throughout my life, too many that I couldn't even count them anymore. I was always so careless about those around me that... That everything would always be my fault. In my mind, I knew that I was special. Someone who could change the world for at least a moment... I was granted that wish when I was still a young, clueless child.

If I could take all of it back, I would do so without hesitation... Sevi... I wish I could have told you how much you meant to me... But He knows what I did and he always tried to brush it off as a careless mistake I did, but there was no going back to what I did... My mistakes cost Sevi her life...

Now they were here in Nibel... That thing. It wants me to return what I stole from them, but I won't give it back. Not until everyone I loved returns to me as well... I'll find a way to undo the effects of the decay... I just need more time...

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"Hey, Lin... Your spacing out again." Izi said calmly as he stared into her younger sister's eyes. Lin smiled at him and told him that she was alright. For now, her attention was all on the new Spirits and Owls who were resting in their homes. Flora, Qui, and Akari. Three Spirits she knew all too well. They all wanted to change Nibel into something much better for everyone, but they were still clueless about where to start.

Lin switched her gaze to the Ori and Ku as they sat by the bed that their brother Aru was in. If only she could truly fix his injury, but memory is a fickle thing that could easily break. She couldn't risk endangering the precious life of Aru, but when he was still awake she could really tell that he was innocent. Unlike her...

Lin and Izi sat next to each other on handcrafted wooden chairs that Izi made, as her brother tried his best to try and comfort Lin. He knows exactly what she was going through after seeing that Howler. Memories of her life back then flashed through her eyes. He would be lying if he said that he wasn't affected. They were in this together, from birth until death...

Ku approached them with an innocent but concerned look. Ku always looked shy ever since Lin laid her eyes on her, though she could tell that she often tried to be as brave as her brother Ori.

"Lin?..." She asked as she crept closer. Ku liked the Moki, they were friendly to her. But like her brother Ori, she never spoke to anyone else other than her siblings or occasionally the Gumon's. "Will Aru be okay?"

That was a question Lin has been contemplating for a while now, ever since Akari and Ori defeated the Howler, her attention was already on Aru. It was going to take a miracle to get his memories back without causing some kind of permanent damage. Then again she still thought that letting him hit his head on something hard would do it, but her brother kept insisting that they shouldn't do that.

"Don't worry. Your brother is perfectly fine, his head should not be that damaged anyways since he fell on something soft." Lin said. Well, he hit something soft during the landing part anyway. She thought to herself but kept that detail hidden from the little owl. "Once we talk to our friends who live near the Ginso Tree, we'll figure out a way to get his memories back. Who knows, maybe he still remembers you, Ku."

Lin said in reassurance for the small Owl. She chirped as the weight in her heart finally disappeared, their brother wasn't in any kind of danger.

"Yo! Ori! Get over here. Flora wants to talk to you!" They all heard the energetic Qui shout from the balcony. Ori stood up and went his way to the balcony where Flora, Qui, and Akari were looking over to the rising sun.