It is difficult to describe the feeling that you get when you are young and very close to death. The adrenaline is rushing through your veins, your heart is beating faster and your palms are sweating from the fright. You have just escaped an attack of some enforcers when you find yourself entangled in another mess. You have escaped death, narrowly, but you have been given another fair warning. Or have you?
If it was not for the fact that you have a dark gift, you would have been dead by now. When the enforcer breaks through the bushes, it would have been a clean kill. One that would have made your death a sure thing. However, in that hectic moment, you grab your enemy and thrust a hand at it. Upon contact, the magic that flows from your hand envelopes the enforcer and transforms it into what seems like a dark stone. The sight is impressive, for the enforcer doesn't make a sound; the stone it is transformed into does not radiate warmth, as all living things do. The magic is precise and lethal, for any living thing that makes contact with your magic, even by so much as a feather, changes into a dark stone.
The sight of this is still eye catching, but you have witnessed this before and the shock wears off rather quickly. You are not one who dwells too much on the past. It's the future that you have your eye on. You have great ambitions and plans, and it shall not be thrown off by some ridiculous magic that transforms anything that comes into contact with it into a dark stone. You have great ambitions and magic like that will not halt them. So, you chuckle and continue your journey to your next location.
You are a young girl looking to get her hands on an important and valuable object. This object shall put you on a higher level than any enforcer, whether they be light or dark. This object shall be instrumental for your plans. Your current location is rather secluded, and you are thankful for this. Being secluded allows your presence to go unnoticed, but it also comes with its drawbacks. Your journey has been long, and it has been tiring, but you still continue to search for this object.
Tired and hungry, you manage to reach your destination. It was a small hut built near a rocky hill, and there was a stack of stones near the door. You open the door and sneak in. It is dark inside, even with the door being ajar letting in some light, but you can make it out, as your magical sight is incredibly useful.
You could have searched for the object yourself, but it would have taken a lot of time, given the close proximity and speed of enforcers. All you need is to grab the object, and then take off. This sudden decision is probably not the best plan, but it is an easy one. After searching through the hut for some time, you manage to find the object of your desire. It is a rather small stone with runes carved into it. The runes look like words, but they are not written with any kind of language you have ever seen before. The object is rather unremarkable in terms of looks, but the unknown runes are a big plus. What is even more interesting is the fact that there is a magic barrier protecting the object. This barrier seems to be strong enough to hold light magic at bay, but your dark gift will go right through it. Slamming your hand on the surface of the barrier, you laugh a hearty laugh as it gives way to the dark magic that flows from your hand.
Reaching in through the hole, you grab the stone and put it in a pocket of your coat. It was just your luck that you managed to reach this thing this easily. You pocket the stone, and take a quick look around the hut. Your stomach is grumbling, but that is not what you are looking for. You looked at the same place two days ago and thought of no one living there. However, when you look at it again today, you notice there are some changes.
There were two clumps of wild grass, and now, there are three. The stone is a rune that makes it so your dark gift can easily find you, when you wanted to find it. The stone will never be found again. It is hidden so well that not even the enforcers will be able to find it. It is a symbol of your power and an indication of your importance. Turning around, you leave the hut with your eyes set on the next part of your journey.
It is mid afternoon when you reach your next destination. A small building, not far off the ground, is your intended destination. You think anyone would fear you after escaping the attention of that enforcer. You use your shadow magic to transform the building into a pile of rocks, which you move aside to show a framed picture. The picture is of a young man, around your age, but you can slightly make out that he is smiling. It is obvious that this picture is of a relative, but you are not too sure where he is from. Anyways, the picture is what you are looking for. This family is not noble, but they have the man of your desire.
Locating him is the next problem, though. The building is small, but you can still sense that not much is happening in here. You leave the clump of rocks and try to peer through a window. You can see a wooden structure in the room where the man is most likely positioned, but you can't make out any features of who might be in there with him. A wave of dizziness overwhelms you. It is probably the stress of the journey. You begin to walk towards the small building. You need to be there before the shadows of the evening fall.
What you see is not what you want to see. Instead of the man standing next to his family, there is a dark stone that stands in his place. You stop just a meter or two from the stone. It seems to be roughly the same shape as the man in the picture. There are no markings on the stone. It stands straight, not jutted at an angle like other rocks you have seen. It is a strange sight, the way it stands with its head tilted and the way the heart looks cut out. You are slightly confused, but you remind yourself quickly that you want the man. You need the man.
The stone has three legs and it seems to be standing on top of a small table. It is hard to look at, you're sure that you're seeing two different things. The man is not standing, but laying down. The eyes of the stone are not visible and all you can do is look at his head, his skin and his empty chest. You make a move to touch the stone, but something grabs your wrist. You look back to see who it is and it is the man you were looking for. You don't remember his name, you had never asked that of him, but you are happy to see him.
"I saw it in my dreams. I saw someone who is going to find me," he says.
The night sets in and the shadows fill the field. You feel the darkness rise from within you, you feel an immense pressure on your chest, but you do not think whether you can handle the burden or not. You take the stone from the table and toss it in a corner. The stone turns into a shadow and joins the darkness.
