<span style="font-style: italic"><div style="text-align: center;">Was he really, truly crazy?<br/>No she could feel something.<br/>The darkness, a weight in the air.<br/>It was real and the source wasn't her bard.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">“We found you...”</span><br/><br/>The voice was a hiss.<br/>Seemed to have many sources.<br/>Made the hairs on the back of one's neck stand on end.<br/>The Bard sneer, the air dancing around him like a Dervish.<br/>Deadly and graceful at the same moment.<br/><br/>“Go away...GO AWAY!”<br/><br/>Thunder boomed shaking the very ground.<br/>A song, an actual song emerged from the howling wind.<br/><br/>“I WILL NOT GO BACK!”<br/><br/>She'd be able to hear a step close to her.<br/>Feel the weight of its presence.<br/>The Bard had been lax.<br/>A demon towering above a normal man appeared.<br/>Skin like pitch, muscles like iron.<br/>Its chuckle, she could feel it reverberate in the ground.<br/><br/>“RUN!”<br/><br/>The howls, the wind echo the rage. <br/>What was he?<br/>No demon could do this<br/>Could they?<br/>She could feel him.<br/>IN the center she could feel him<br/>...and them<br/>Chaos<br/>Order<br/>Bondage<br/>Freedom<br/><br/>“Dance with me....”<br/><br/>His voice was close.<br/>But he was turned away.<br/><br/>“DANCE WITH ME INTO OBLIVION!”<br/><br/>run<br/>the softest whisper was given<br/>a warm breeze giving her a direction<br/><br/>Run....<br/><br/>The Demons laughed<br/>for a moment<br/>before the smell of ozone filled the meadow<br/>and a bolt of lighting struck one square in the chest.<br/>It HOWLED<br/>Burning flesh, the scent was terrible<br/>Oh he wanted to run.<br/>He didn't want to stay and fight.<br/>But to leave her here....<br/>...he would have done so in the past.<br/>To leave her to a hell worse than death just to save himself.<br/>He was a coward.<br/>That was the resolve in his eyes.<br/>She was a reason to fight.<br/>He hadn't had that before.<br/>She was the reason to stand his ground.<br/><br/>“DANCE WITH ME!<br/>IN PAIN AND WAR!<br/>LET US SEE WHAT LASTS!<br/>DANCE WITH ME!<br/>FOR THERE IS NO FEAR!<br/>I WILL SHOW YOU YOUR END!”<br/><br/>He sang as he charged towards them.<br/>Crazy...<br/>...crazy<br/><br/>Yes, in a way he was.<br/>Emotions were silly things.<br/>Affection<br/>Devotion<br/>Damn things pushed him on.<br/>They opened the flood gates.<br/>She had to be safe.<br/><br/>She had to...<br/><br/>...run.</div></span>