Fragments.

After moments of Rumination Havillah decided to ask the question that had been plaguing her mind. She had nothing else to do apart from walking and even though the voice had warned her of dangers that lurked in the darkness, she shook the warnings aside allowing her curiosity roam and even get the best of her. After all, if there was any danger, she would see it from a mile, wouldn't she? For the land was now flat apart from the ocassional rise and fall of the grass and the ocassional termite mounds.

"What are you anyway?" She finally asked the question.

"Why? What do mean?" She that he was acting elusive and despite sounding asexual its mannerisms suggested that it was actually male.

"If you are not the light? Then what are you?"

"A fragment of the light. As are you and as is everyone else. For we all have the essence of the Light flowing on within us."

Havillah paused for a moment, thoughtful as she mulled over the Voice's reply. Still she was not convinced of the reply she had gotten. It told her of what it was made of, but really not what it was or its purpose in her life aside from making her miserable that is.

"Then why are there differences?"

"Differences in living beings you ask? Well, because it would be boring. Don't you think?"

"Somehow I do not believe that that is the full answer." She answered skeptically.

"It is part of the answer." Then there was silence. Instead of saying more the voice seemed to have completely withdrawn from their conversation.

"You are not going to give me the rest of it now?" she was answered with silence. "You know, you are quite irritating." still nothing. Havillah huffed trampling over the blades of grass in exasperation even as she neared what she had marked as her first destination.

She would spend the night there. In the forest. It was a forest not a woodland, she could see that now. She would find a tree large enough to hold her and when the sun was up, she would fly away as she scoped out land and the possible places that she would go on to from there. For now, she hoped, that she was far enough from Bethesda and hopefully her presence would not be missed until she was much farther away, far away enough for them not to follow her.

As Havillah's feet came to the edge of the woodland which was actually a forest, Havillah glared back at the thicket that was now obstructing her entrance into the darkened forest. She had taken great care to avoid the roads and any other paths that led into it for fear of meeting up with people, and now, as it stared back at her she could not help the feeling that it was mocking her, as her earlier decision to avoid discovery came back to bite her in a place that she would rather not openly say.

The undergrowth was thick and thorny along the edges even as it melded together with the shrubbery that had once dotted the grassy meadow. It stuck out and high like a wall. A forbidding wall of thorns and blossoms that enticed as much as they repelled her. These woods seemed to have made to keep everyone and everything out or rather in and even though the moon had long come out and was already illuminating the area around her, it seemed to make the forest darker with shadows and more eerily than it had once appeared.

"What to do?" she mused even as she looked around for other entry points that were not as obstructed as the one standing that was before her. She could fly, grab a branch, but this being the edge meant that the shrubbery had grown really tall and she doubted that even she could manage to go through without getting a scratch or two. In the end, despite the risks it posed, Havillah decided to fly up into the canopy and find a way in through the top. There was still the issue of the blinding darkness within the forest floor but hopefully, even without the light of her glowing crystals, the cresent moon would light Havillah's path to a tree with a base wide enough for its branches to serve as a resting place for her weary body and even more, her weary mind even as she planned out the next step in what was now seeming like an endless journey.