<div class="floatright">(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1345/allyct.jpg)</div><br/>"You are."  The reply was simple and final, not a question as one would expect.  Either the girl was too far gone to understand that people had free will and didn't have to just do whatever she wanted, or something else was going on, but it didn't stop her from doing her best to keep going.<br/><br/>The symbol she drew on his sleeve had an intuitive meaning just as everything else did.  It meant ally, another hunter to help force back the darkness.  "Dad always wore this symbol, but never when he was actually on the Hunt.  Sometimes it's the only way to find the others.  The sight can't see the Imbued, because you're not monsters."<br/><br/>The tears streaked down her face, but she didn't really seem surprised.  It seemed more like she'd expected this for months, or years, and had only finally come to understand and accept what had been inevitable.  "You should sleep, but it's up to you now.  Though others will come soon enough."