Leif
```Rain - 7/19/23 - 1```
*Akyra awoke in a cold sweat. Last she remembered, she was locked in some sort of shadow-mirror fight against Aspen. As harrowing as it was, she didn't* ***Want*** *To be locked in life or death combat with her other half. She sat up from where she was laying and looked around. It looked like she had somehow crashed through the roof of this abandoned shopping stall. There was a her-shaped hole in the roof where rain was currently pouring in from. It was now that she noticed she was wearing a strange necklace. She put her hand over it and felt a strange power coursing through it. She did not like that. Akyra ripped the necklace off and crushed it, releasing its stored magic. Her body ached as she pushed herself up to her feet, darkness leaking from a few cuts and scrapes on her body. She stepped out into the rain and begin to channel her magic. She placed her hand on some of her injuries and used ice magic to freeze over them. She winced from the pain, as her eyes lit up yellow with the formation of the ice. She looked around the abandoned marketplace and spotted her wooden staff across the way. She knelt down to pick it up, before she stood once more.*

```Downpour - 7/19/23 - 2```
*With her wooden staff back in hand, she could actually cast cure on herself instead of just freezing her wounds over. She sighed with relief after healing her wounds. She huddled down under a more in-tact shopping stall to get out of the rain. She wasn't even sure where she was, or how she got here. She felt an ungoldy amount of darkness eminating from the castle at the center of this seemingly broken and abandoned city, but it felt like the kind of darkness not even she wanted to be a part of. She closed her eyes and attempted to sense what exactly was at the heart of this castle, but to no avail. All she could sense was a looming darkness. As the light rain turned to a downpour, Akyra used her staff to cast a simple blizzard to encase the stall with ice, so that no rain would come in as the weather turned for the worse.*

```Thunder - 7/19/23 - 3```
*She woke up again after some time to the crashing of thunder. Her ice wall still encased the shopping stall, so she put her staff up to it and channeled magic to shoot a Dark Blizzard through the wall, to form a hole in it. She looked out through the hole, surprised that the bad weather had actually passed. But that thunder sounded so close? She shook her head and clambered out of the hole. She hated getting wet, so if the rain was gone, now was the perfect time to investigate where the hell she was. She stepped down from the hole in her ice wall and brushed herself off. She looked down at a puddle on the ground and smiled at her reflection. Until it was that she felt that overwhelming sensation of darkness again. She heard another crash of thunder that sounded like it came from right behind her. She pulled her hat down over her eyes, afraid of what it could be. When she opened her eyes and let her hat go, she saw a dark figure standing behind her from within the puddle.*
Carey
"You weaklings startle so easily. Whatever, I thought you were someone else, so I came to kill you... But since you aren't them, there's no use in taking your life."
Leif
*Akyra turned to face the dark figure. She had no idea who this man was, yet, his darkness felt so familiar.*

"Someone... Else? Who else... Would be on your bad side such that you would kill them on sight?"
Carey
"S'got nothing to do with you, heartless. Just some goody-two-shoes light boy I want to knock down a few pegs. He's got a heartless friend like you. Thought you might be her, since you were also sentient and not like the other worthless minions."
Leif
*He turned to leave, but Akyra reached out and grabbed the bottom of his shirt.*

"H-hang on... Can you at least tell me where I am before you go?"
Carey
"No, sorry. Go get someone else to be your tour guide."

*His body sparked with dark lightning as he jumped away, causing another crash of thunder.*
Leif
*Akyra recollected herself and stood. She looked in the direction of the castle the dark thunder just jumped to and frowned.*