Pasts revisited

[Eli]

Eli sat alone in the barn, which suited him fine. He preferred to be alone right now. He was reliving difficult moments from his past.

Being abandoned at the age of 7 with one suitcase, an envelope with $1 million in large bills, and a prayer that someone would take him in. After a few days, he lost hope. "Why mother, father, why?" he screamed to no one.

It still hurt, 15 years later. He sunk down and began to cry. He hadn't been able to release the anger built inside of him. He couldn't confide in anybody. His past acquaintences we're merely that, past and acquaintances. Friends were hard to come by when your home was known solely as "The Badlands", and your house was the branches of a tree.

Eli raised himself back to a sitting position. He stared at the far wall, reliving the moment. He yelled again at the memories. "Damned lies, damned name, damned not knowing my whole past. Who am I, what is my name?" He stopped, breathing hard. He was way too tense right now, he was in a new place, brought there by the images of a girl he saw running in the streets one day when he was 12. Somehow, he felt like he needed to help her, and the visions brought her here, to this strange place.

"I know she is here, she needs help, she has lost something. Where is she?" Eli ranted again. He didn't know her name, but knew what she looked like, even 10 years later. Somehow he knew how she progressed as she grew up. And she was here, but where?

Eli picked up his suitcase. His money was in it, awaiting the day to be put in a bank. He had money, but he'd rather have been loved by his family and broke than rich and on his own. He sighed.

He cursed his own name. "Damn name, I don't even know that, is my last name Veere or RayVeere? Am I Elian Ray (pause) Veere, or Elian RayVeere?" Eli rolled his eyes back, hiding the pupils, which were the only thing in his eyes not white. He grabbed his suitcase, throwing it onto the loft, before flying up there himself. He reverted to human form. "Damn everything," Eli said as he planned to take a stake to his heart. He knew it wouldn't kill him, but it would cause a lot of pain and hopefully allow him to live without the dreams for a few hours longer.

[Cassiel]

Cassiel was in panther form when she ran into the barn. She'd spent a lot of time in that form recently, the people she was running from were hot on her trail, but it was easy to outrun them in that form. She changed back to human form, closing the barn doors behind her. Cassiel thought it was odd that they were opened, she remembered closing them, and didn't think anyone else knew the barn was there.

"Who else would come here anyway?" she wondered outloud. "Everyone else has a home to go to." Frustrated, she took her daggers out of their holders and threw them at a target in the wall. One of them hit the center, but the other one hit the first and broke. Furious, Cassiel threw her bag to the floor and heard something snap. Cassiel took a deep breath, opened her bag and pulled out the remains of her bow. She threw it into a corner, and sat down on a bale of hay, covering her face with her hands.

Something brushed her wrist, and she grabbed it. It was the only thing she had left from her family, a tiger- eye necklace that her mother gave to her father. On the back, necklace was engraved with five sets of initials, one set being her own. She assumed that two were her parents and the other two were siblings. "Why me?!" she cried. Cassiel changed back into panther form and curled up in a corner of the barn, hiding from the world.

[Eli]

Eli stopped himself from putting the stick in his chest. 'It's her' he thought. Eli realized that this might be bad to be in a barn alone with a girl that was also a panther, so he looked around the barn. He looked up and saw a way out; a hole in the upper portion of the wall, big enough to fly through in raven form. He quietly shited forms and flew out.

Upon landing outside the barn, Eli silently cursed himself. 'So how much did she hear,' he thought. I hope she didn't hear anything. Eli decided to hide himself and flew into a tree and perched. He made sure to keep quiet, he didn't want the panther girl to know he was there.

Eli looked in the distance. With his good sight, he could see someone headed straight to the barn, right to the panther.

[Cassiel]

Cassiel thought she heard movement up in the loft, so she stood up and then changed into human form to climb up the ladder and investigate. There was nothing up there. Cassiel yawned, she'd been on the run for awhile.

She brought her broken weapons and the bag up to the loft, then changed back into panther form to rest. Exhausted, Cassiel curled up in the loft, confident no one would find her, forgetting all about the open door because she was so tired. Little did she know, someone was on their way to the barn.