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Aurelia slowly stood as she wipped her tears with ehr long dark sleeve. Her cheeks were still moist and her eyes red, she ruffled her bangs so that they his her eyes, her hair fell cascading down past her waist. That night there would be no moon to light through the darkness, just like the light had vanished from Aurelia's heart.

"My King may you rest, for I promise you that your death shall be avenged. I will drag Darius with me to Hell if I must. This I swear!"

Her black mare slowly rode up to her, it nuzzled against Aurelia's cheek.

"Selene my old friend. Always trying to cheer me up, you must get tired of that. I know that I'll always be able to trust you, even if you were a gift from Darius, you are the only thing I have left to cherish..." she said softly as Aurelia stroked the horse's long black mane.

Aurelia woke up in the middle of the night. Her screams were muffled by her hands as tears streamed down her pale features, her heart felt about to burst out from her chest.

Last night she had arrived very late to her room, collapsing on her bed from exhaustion. Soon after her dreams took control. Aurelia dreamt of a garden of endless roses, all of them white. She stood in a daze, before she felt a familiar voice whispering to her. When she turned, Darius stood before her, his dark hair fell down his broad shoulders. His once beautiful eyes tainted with lust and greed. Darius'once bautiful and handsome face twisted in a crooked smirk, fangs piercing his lower lip, his once clear and warm eyes, dark and cold. With a great amount of force, Darius pushed her to the ground, his large body crushing hers. He forced cruel and painful kisses on her mouth as the roses turned black. Darius forced her to drink his blood.

"All that is left is you Aurelia...you WILL be mine!" he said as he laughed cruelly.

At that moment Aurelia woke from her cruel nightmare, gasping for air and trembling in fear of what Darius had been doing to her.

It was night. The castle of Airam was blanketed by darkness and eerie silence. Koen, the Knight of the Sun, slept soundly through the partially muffled scream of his beloved, Aurelia. But somehow, in a wretched nightmare of his, he could have sworn he heard the distinctly unnerving shriek of his love. Incidentally, he did not awake 'til the sky was a soothing blue-gray and the morning approached.

Only after the sky turned a fervent orange and the sun threatened the day with its presence did Koen emerge from the solitude that was his bed chamber. The men that stood guards outside his door noticed the increasing frequency of his odd habit. Koen would generally rise at dawn and eagerly train and aid the lesser knights of the court. Recently though, he had been locked up in his room until almost late for breakfast, sometimes not before midday.

This day, however, Koen blasted out the doors before the guards had little time to grasp that their superior was leaving. Koen didn't look back, but rushed past them on a self-proclaimed quest. First, though, he must locate Aurelia. The valiant knight set off for her quarters, not caring to consider the fact that breakfast began just moments ago.

(Please let me point out two things:
-For some strange reason or another, I'm the one thus far leading the RP in terms of time and plot......I never thought I'd be the one doing that particular job. I'm not complaining, just something I wanted to bring to your attention.
-Koen didn't technically wake up by Aurelia's scream, so you can either go on and play out the scene in the night, or move into the morning and refer to it in flashback or explanation. You by no means have start out in the morning. I was just saying what happened to Koen, which wasn't much during the night.)

Kana nodded and followed her superior's wishes. She made her way back to her room and lay down on her bed. Covering herself with her delicate lace comforter, she closed her eyes. Sleep did not come, but she did manage to rest a while before the sun rose, illuminating her room with a pale, pink-orage glow.

Kana opened her tired eyes again. Another new day. It began the same as yesterday? How many more would follow in its pathway? How long would the kingdom grieve their beloved king? How were things between Koen and Aurelia? Why did she ask herself so many questions?

She sighed as she rose and stretched. "Well, I do need to train. And you know what they say, Kana. No time like the present." She gave herself a bit of a pep talk before making her way out of her room and to the training room.