Rakurai sat up in his makeshift bed as he awoke, quickly, they way one does when having a nightmare. Then as he looked around and familiarized himself with his surroundings, he realized that the nightmare is what he had just awoken to. His home and refuge in Hikari, the City of Light, now a city of ashes. He began to piece the shards of his shattered dream together. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "It hurts," one of the children moaned. "It's busy today," Rakurai mused, stroking Helyna's hair after she untied it.