The God's Bane

"How did this happen?" Selena's voice trembled as she spoke, sitting beside the bed where a young man with pale blue hair and ashen eyes lay motionless. The private ward was quiet, save for the faint hum of medical equipment. She had only been able to get into after threatening the heck out of the vice-principal, to the point where he could no longer deny her access.

"Why…? After everything I did… Why did this happen?" she whispered, her hands gripping his limp, cold fingers. Her own hands trembled as tears slipped down her amber eyes, trailing her cheeks like molten gold.

The young man remained unresponsive, lost in a deep and unreachable slumber. His body grew colder with each passing second, his pale blue hair steadily draining of color, turning stark white.

He was slipping away.

Fading fast.

The merging had begun once more.