Chapter Nine

-Aria-

I took in the fresh breath of cool breeze as it blew gently on my face, my hair flying over my shoulders with the wind.

It was great to have some peace and quiet, away from the reality of the life I had found myself in. Not like the one I was living before now was any better anyway.

In a way, it was worse. I was a nobody. I was timid and weak and had no say. At least, I had some recognition here and a family. And at Moonbeam I had a terrible and horrifying end. Now that I think about it, the people I have here around me which I call family were not what they seemed to be.

Take, for instance, Dante and Ariel, my supposed sister. Those two were enough to send me to my end if I was not careful. Then it returned to my memory that Jasmine was said to have taken her own life.

But I had seen it in a flash that it might not have been what happened. That red stoned ring… was a pointer to something.

Great, now I had to figure out another person’s life while I planned out mine. Arie