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Originally Posted by maidenroseheart
The young being floated there, in her space. It was a world of bright colorful lights so small that you couldn't see any individual one. However, they illuminated her whole world and brought a smile to her face. She was resting, enjoying just being, when another creature floated into her reality. Pushing several little blobs of souls before her, the creature suggested she nourish and care for them. Happy to be of service, the young being smiled in joy.
Spinning her world until there was a wash of gorgeous patterns swirling around them, she stepped back so that those little souls could see. They looked around bored, then turned in towards each other. Surprised, she slowed her colorful world and looked at it. Perhaps they preferred something else. Thinking of what they might like, she tried another tactic. Setting it up so the lights danced and played, something that generally made her smile, she focused hard to ensure that the lights played and danced in harmony. Turning, she gestured at the little souls to look. One or two glanced up, but otherwise they ignored her.
Feeling a bit uncertain now, and rather discouraged, the young being let herself spread out. Turning herself with all her energy into music and flowing into the lights themselves, she started a symphony of music that spiraled high and around. It was her greatest talent and took all her energy. Sending the lights in to dance with the students, she upped the tempo and invited the little souls to play.
One of the little souls listened to her music, taking her energy as she played, and simply threw it away. Another laughed and followed suit. In horror, she felt herself tiring and slowly deflating, her lights going out one by one as the little souls took her energy and threw it away. Soon her world was simply gray. No color remained. The last light extinguished ... darkness filled her world.
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It had been a long day. Assuming a day is what it was. No light flickered or dimmed. The air was still as even the teasing laughter that had cruelly torn this now gray world apart drifted away. The peaceful space had become an abyss - a void. There was little that remained except for the numb figure curled in on herself. Hugging her knees to her trembling body, the young being wept behind her curtain of hair. Now sound could be heard, but the tears floated out and into what had once been her world.
A gentle hand rested on her shoulder. Embarrassed by the life that she now was as well as too exhausted to raise her head, the young being kept her forehead on her knees. The gentle hand wasn't demanding nor did it leave. It just stayed there, supporting the once vibrant young being. It was that hand that seeped unknowingly energy back into the world. A flicker began beating in the wretched heart, slowly and dimly, but beating nevertheless. A heartbeat that was the pulse of a new song.
Wearily the young being looked up through her tears and strands of hair into the face of the creature from before. The one she had failed when she had been unable to teach the little souls. The face that looked compassionately back at hers was not one of anger or distress. Simply love and understanding. The tears that floated around them turned into various colors of blue, filling them with it's deep and dark color. An improvement from the gray, but lonely just the same. The creature felt her own tears joining the young being's as she gathered the girl into her arms as the grief turned to the healing sobs of a new start.