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Chapter 4: When Destiny Sounds the Call...
Rayne awoke to a cool cloth being pressed to her forehead, and a soft voice calling her name. She slowly opened her eyes and found herself looking into the concerned face of her WolfGar sister Ito. The black haired princess smiled and then grew deathly serious.
"Rayne, do you have any idea what happened to you?" The Elf shook her head.
"When we first smelled your scent on the air we knew something was wrong, Me and two Outriders went to meet you, but when we found you, you were lying face down on the ground. But the strangest thing happened, before we could get close to you, a Dark Shadow seemed to shoot across the ground away from your body...do you know anything about it?"
"I...I don't remember, at least not much....there was a voice and cold fingers...like the hands of death!" Rayne tried to sit up but fell into a coughing fit that wracked her whole body. Ito forced her back down onto the tatami and again pressed the damp rag to her feverish skull.
"Hush now!" Ito scolded gently.
"You're in no condition to be moving just yet. You have a high fever and you're clammy and pale, no way to go off and find whoever did this to you. Leave the tracking to the Outriders and the others...We'll find who did this." rayne leaned back intaking the soft smell of the incense and animal fur, slowly drifting back into a blissful sleep.
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The world was dark and the smell of decay filled Rayne's nostrils, she was running but to where she could not guess, she only ran on and on, feeling her breath turn to fire in her lungs, horrid laughter filled her ears and Rayne slapped her hands over her head to drown out the screeches.
A sharp pain hit the middle of her back and Rayne fell to the ground writhing as a numb feeling crawled up her back and across her neck. A face loomed out of the night and just as Rayne felt as though she could make out the face...a quiet cry rang out through the dark to sweep her away in the form of a white wind...
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"Desciple!" A voice called from Rayne's left and she awoke with a jerk. Turning quickly, Rayne faced a fammiliar figure that she took great comfort in, the small figure of the goddess Naiya.