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People screamed and ran as they walked down the street together. Dark Brother marched ahead of her, head held high, looking dignified. Aslilin slunk behind, moving silent and cat-like and glaring at the foolish Humans as they passed.
She did not understand how these ugly beings could have survived so long. They were like peices of meat on legs, food that moved. Sniffing in disgust, she cast a glance to Dark Brother, and wondered why he even considered her inferior Human form a thing of beauty. He, truely, was the thing to behold. His frame was covered in the velvet black fur, the muscle was perfectly toned despite his confinment within the cage. She couldn't understand why he would desire to waste his time amoungst these creatures...
Look at them, Ta Bahata! They are our people! Dark Brother inhaled deeply and marched across the street, hardly noticing the people who ran from his path in fright. Aslilin herself growled, resenting the rustling hospital gown around her body. All these petty humans wore cloths, which made her resent it even more.
"I want to hunt," she growled to the black cat-creature. "I want to hunt them."
Dark Brother wheeled and looked shocked. Ta Bahata, you can't mean that...They're our people!
"They're ugly and stupid," Aslilin growled, feeling exceedingly bored by the trivial humans. "Pitiful and weak. There is no point to their meaningless existance."
Growling in his throat, Dark Brother ran behind her and pushed her down the street towards a store, heading inside. They are Beautiful, Ta Bahata! As are you! I don't understand how you can't see this...Please..
"I shall show you." Aslilin was completely bored by now. The humans and their structures did not interest her in the least, and this pathetic building wasn't even as much of a challange as the complex they had come from. With a crook of her finger, the world seemed to buckle in on itself and the building crumbled to ash before her. Dark Brother fell back abruptly and looked around in horror...dozens of Human bodies lying in the wake. More were screaming, still alive, and running from the small girl and the black feline.
Tears welled up in Dark Brother's green eyes as the feline shook all over, dropping down on his haunches. Aslilin couldn't understand his behavior, but felt strangely responsable. You...you just don't see...Why...All of them...
"Inferiors, humans, mortals..." Aslilin sighed tiredly. "They could never stand a chance, and their lives are of no consiquence in this world."
The black cat shivered and felt sick, beckoning for Aslilin to stoop down. Ta Bahata...sit...sit, and I will show you..
It was a swirling mist, a void. There was nothing, nothing at all. Aslilin saw herself, themself, Dark Brother and she, together as one in it. She could see, they were one. But they lacked deffinition.
Humans were all around, yet they were only paritally with the Humans. They were in the middle ground between two lands. There was no middle ground. There were no two lands.
Apart and together, they were one and two at the same time. She the voice and he the body, she the body and he the voice. A mistake, a miscalculation. She was...not superior..she was...
Twins? TWINS? My Ruler above, and only one is acceptable?
This is only proving our theory that they're worthless. These projects should be abandoned.
There was a strange place before them now. A long, trundling convayer belt with thousands of infants upon it. None of them looked Human. Some lacked shape completely, some were malformed or twisted into painful preportions. Some were dead, some were still alive. There was a roar, and heat in the air. At the end of the convayer belt, they could see, was a fire. The creatures were thrown, one by one, into the fire.
Some were dead, some were still alive...
A spiraling structure appeared. Spiraling, a ladder twisted upwards. Aslilin couldn't understand its significance, but she knew it made her. The ladder twirled, twisted, contorted and shattered in air. Reforming, it took the shape of her, of them. But they were incomplete, unmade.
The shape was tugging, pulling between two places now. Somewhere far away and out of sight they could hear laughter and talk and voices. But to the other side the convayer belt moved ever onward and the fire growled hungrily no matter how many bodies it consumed. Bodies of infants that seemed to materialize out of thin air and attatch to it, unable to escape, magnatized by its horror.
Lights, shapes, little flecks started flying from where the voices were and began grafting to the image of them. The image became whole, complete, and stopped bending towards the belt. The belt flew away, the fire vanished into the abyss and the voices and light became nearer and nearer. A light appeared, a light and the glint of silver and suddenly, they were free. They were free, and there of course, were the voices. But suddenly they weren't happy.
"Twins!" One of the big lives jumped back in surprise. "But one is-"
"Get them apart, quickly! If they grow too fond of one another it can ruin everything!"
"God, it's a monster..."
"But the girl is entirely human, we have at least partial success."
Dark Brother turned to her as it was starting all over again and smiled. Can you see, now, Ta Bahata? They are whole. Between us, we are one of them. They have given us life. We owe ourselves to them. It is their power to take life, and ours combined. But not yours alone.
Aslilin looked down at her pale hands, her pale human hands, and found her body shaking. Falling over, falling to her knees, once again in the center street before the now gutted shell of a building, she collapsed into panicked shouts and screams, hugging her sides with her hands beneith her arms, afraid to touch anything. Whatever it was that was there before her, within her, she couldn't let it touch the world.
