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rayne drew her eyes from the sidewalk and looked up at the building before her. the sign on the front read the name of the flats in barely legible letters. she sighed, then fumbled around in her backback for the keys the city hall had given her. reading the number from them, she stepped up into the doorway and opened it. the door swung open to pitch blackness, and she summoned up her courage- stepping inside and closing the door behind her.

Rayne slowly strode from room to room, flicking lights on as she went.
every room was covered in dust and all the walls were painted that same mint-green color
this place was going to be alot of work...
she found the bedroom, a small, windowless space with a single mattress on the floor and a door to one side she assumed was a closet.
she was not sleeping in here.
she dragged the mattress out into the living room, noticing the boxes against the wall for the first time. so her things had gotten there before she had.
not bothering to worry about how the shippers had gotten into the appartment without a key, she ripped open a box and made a bed against the only wall with the window. she opened another box and dressed sitting on the floor, out of view of anyone outside.
she then got up, shut off all the lights, made sure the door was securly dead-bolted, and was asleep before she hit her makeshift bed.

As he entered in upon the room he'd planned to inhabit for a while. Small details surprised him, such as the fact that there'd already been a bed within the room, along with all the other pointless necessities. Television, couches, hell even a box of Captain crunch in the kitchen cupboard. It was as if this was a hotel room, not an apartment. Passing in further, he entered the bathroom.

Drawing a bath, he found the water to be crystal clear. It seemed slightly unusual for him, for he'd been used to not entirely pure water. As the tub filled completly, he stripped from his many layers and delved into it, water splashing over the sides. As he layed within the tub, his mind seemed to melt. Things he once cared about, things that haunted him. They all seemed to drift away in this instant.

He looked upon his arm in a spare moment, drawing his attention to a few needles that he'd skewered through his skin quite a while before. As each one left his body, tiny droplets of blood left him, mixing with the bathtub's water, tainting that which seemed so pure. It was then that he was truly at rest, and layed back in the tub.

The sun set behind the horizon, and the stirring animals of the surrounding areas calmed almost instantly. The night came just like every other night, just as dark as the previous days' end. The apartment complex had been renovated and fixed once more since a certain someone came to reside within its walls.

Room 131 has been sealed for over a year now, and nobody knows the reasons as to why...

"...Ugh...What hit me?"

The strange voice came from the shadows of the room, it had all been boarded up and completely sealed upon this man's last entry.

"...Man... I've never been out that long before... must be these wings..."

He stood from where he had fallen to the floor, so many days ago, to his full height, just shy of six feet tall now. While he slumbered his body aged with him, making him taller than his five-seven when he fell into "hibernation". His bone structure had remained the same, skinny and frail, but his muscles had become more pronounced, no longer just firm and tone, now they were ripped, and gleaming in the light his presence seemed to radiate.

"Hmm... I might be able to get used to this... and these wings... I wonder if they actually serve their purpose..."

He strode to the doorway, and tried to open it. The door wouldn't open willingly, so he decided to force it. With a sickening "CRACK!" the wood splintered and the door swung open as if it had been bludgeoned with a twenty pound sledge hammer. It hung there, hinges askew, like a dead man in a noose. He stepped from his makeshift prison, and looked up at the stars.

"...Beautiful...Let's see... if flying is all it's cracked up to be."

With that said, he leapt from the ground and into the night sky, naught but a shadow in the darkness.