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The echoes from the party slowly faded as I traveled along the pitch black hallway, my heart beat quickening with every step. Timidly, I called out his name, hoping that he'd reply, but the only sounds I heard were my heels against the floor and my breathing.
"Rynu?" I called again. "Where are you? This isn't funny!"
Tears welled up in my eyes, but I brushed them away before they fell, telling myself to stop so he wouldn't see me like this. I would've been ashamed if he did, seeing as how in a few minutes I would be the High Princess.
And High Princesses never cry.
It felt like I was walking around forever, chasing nothing but a shadow when I finally saw him. He was just standing there, at the end of the hallway, looking at me. I smiled broadly, running towards him with my arms outstretched...
BANG BANG!
Two shots. I screamed.
He started falling, and I kept running. I could feel the horrified look plaster itself to my face as I somehow managed to catch his body before it hit the ground. His face had a terrified and shocked look forever engraved upon it, his gaze blank. A flood of tears washed down my face as I looked at Rynu, a piece of my soul crumbling into dust.
"NO! RYNU! RYNU, WAKE UP, PLEASE!" I screamed, my body shaking with the force of my sobs. "Please, Rynu! Rynu, no!" I collapsed onto his chest, his blood seeping onto my beautiful gown, staining it forever.
"Why?" I whispered in between sobs and hiccups. "Wh-who d-did this-s?"
My mind was numb. I couldn't think straight in here, so I took one last long look at my friend, and gently set his head down, closing each of his eyes so he looked more like he was sleeping. As I stood up, another flood of tears burst down my cheeks. I ran over to one of the ceiling-high windows and vaulted myself out of it, shattering the glass and ripping my clothes up, streams of my blood mixing in with Rynu's on my dress. Once in the air, I immediately took off flying as high as I could, not knowing where I was going and never looking back.
Fireworks exploded some thousand feet below me as I left the atmosphere, and I vaguely realized that I was now ten years old. I wondered how long it'd be before they found out I had ran, and what'd they do with...
I couldn't finish that thought. It was too painful.
So as I rose higher and higher, my muscles crying out in pain from all of the stress I was putting them through, my mind shut down and I became numb. No thoughts resonated inside my head, and soon I barely even felt the pain in my wings. I just kept flying, straight on.
I have no idea how long I was out there, or even how I survived.
Honestly, I didn't even care if I had died out there. I pretty much lost all feeling when Rynu...
...
The last thing I remember is seeing a strange blue and green planet before I felt the tug of it's gravitational pull, so much stronger than that of Centrillia, before I blacked out.
I secretly wished that I had died.
