Blackness, that's all I saw, expecting to dream when no dreams would come. This is what I imagined death to be, staring into the back of your eyelids for eternity. My date with the dark, drifting into the abysmal nothingness that we're all destined for...was interrupted by a soft hand covering my mouth.

Upon opening my eyes, an eerie silence oozed in the night, Sage slowly came into focus. Oval face, slanted eyes, the crimson color bleeding into his features. All the fire was out, it ...