Third late night in a row. I've given up on sleep.


Feiyou: Arch Angel of Light
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I glanced up from my conversation with Haile as we continued down the street. A car was coming toward us, and inside I could sense another soul who shone with light. Another Correct Soul, I thought, and smiled as I saw the one, a boy staring glumly outside from the back seat. Something about that light was so calming and complete. My small trance was interrupted when Haile murmured something.

"What was that?" I began to ask, right before Haile ran out into the street, directly in the path of the car. Her blond hair shone and bounced as she stopped in the car's lane. The driver screeched to a halt, the car stopping just a bare foot from little Haile. She knew about the one inside, I thought, startled. No, impossible, impossible, impossible. She couldn't know. And yet...

I ran over to her. "Haile, what are you doing? You could be killed." I was repeating a speech I had heard the first time I had walked in front of those speeding metal vehicles. Haile looked up at me, uncertain how to answer. She doesn't know why she did it! I realized with a shock. However, I was now in a very akward position. I would have to apologize to the driver of the automobile, most likely meeting the boy as well. And being this close...I couldn't help but want to talk with him, to meet him and see what he was like, something the others in the car might not want me to do. Difficult, but at least it couldn't get any more complicated.

"YOU!" Came a yell from the sidewalk. A harsh beastly cry that sounded strange from its mortal body but was still all too familiar. I looked up. She stood there, darkly cute with ribbons wrapped in her hair, fury in her lovely face, quivering with a need for violence. The most dangerous, the darkest, the one I loved the most. Compassion, sorrow, affection and pity filled me as I looked into her dark eyes.

"Doyokai," I said, more to myself than anyone else. She walked over with a smooth gait, like a deadly cat on the hunt. I became worried, not for my safety but for Haile and the people in the car. If she wished to fight, I would have no choice but to defend them.

She stopped before me. I gave a mental sigh. She wanted to talk first, giving me time to try to redirect her anger before it harmed anyone. "Do you know her, Fei?" asked Haile. Doyokai looked at her with a small glare of loathing. Knowing her, Doyokai was angry at Haile for not being run over rather than speaking.

"Yes," I said quietly, never looking away from the one so close to my heart. "She's my sister." Haile said no more, sensing she should remain silent. I thanked the Being for her intelligence and insightfulness at that moment. "Now isn't the time for a confrontation, Doyokai," I said calmly, hoping to keep my sister from lashing out. Her face, however, deepened in anger.

"If not now then when, Fei?" she asked sneering the last word. She always hated my nickname. She always hated me.

"Later, in the Central Park? We can talk more on the northern shore of the Reservoir, about whatever you wish." She glared at me, then gave a small nod. She would allow her rage to wait

"You want to leave this place the way it is, don't you?" she asked before I could give another small sigh.

"Yes, don't you?"

"No." Her face had gone blank and emotionless. "No one does. You're the only idiot in that respect." That startled me. They wanted to change the world? Alter it to their image? Impossible. I couldn't, wouldn't let them. For the first time, a desire to confront my siblings coursed through me. "I suppose you want to do something about that now," she continued.

"Yes," I replied. I was about to say more when the door to the car we've been blocking opened.

"Excuse me, could you please hold this meeing somewere else?" asked the driver, an older man of Asian desent. The back door then opened, and he stepped out. He was tall, taller than me with jet-black hair that was tied in the back, and teal colored eyes. The warm glow of light eminated from him.

"Tonight," Doyokai's voice whispered in my ear. I turned in time to watch her walk away, still so smooth and calm, so beautiful and dangerous. If only her hatred for me didn't equal my love for her.

"Shun, get back in the car," the driver said to the boy, completely oblivious to what had happened. The boy ignored the man I presumed to be his father.

"Your Phi's little sister, aren't you?" he asked Haile.

She smiled. "Yeah! I'm Haile, what your name?"

"Call me Shun," he said. "I go to school with your brother."

"You do?" her face broadened even more, if that was possible. "How 'bout you walk to school with Fei and me?" He eyes glittered blue as she looked at Shun. I said nothing, too stunned at Haile's forwardness to speak.

"I'm sorry, but Shun-"

"It's okay, Dad," Shun interrupted his father. "I know them. We'll head straight to school, alright?" I felt into Shun's heart for a moment with sympathy to see why he was so quick to agree. His desire to leave the presence of his father and the other man in the car, it seemed, was greater than any caution he has. And sense he knew Haile slightly, he felt safe with us. His father sighed as we walked onto the sidewalk and allowed them to drive away. Haile, Shun, and I began walking back toward the school. Haile began cheerfully talking with Shun as I thouht. The others still wanted to alter the world. Doyokai didn't lie about that. She had no need, and she often felt the truth could hold the most hurt. Thus, I needed to awaken those like Shun, to stop them, fight them if I must. I looked at Haile's happy face and smiled, still slightly disturbed by her apparent perceptiveness. Thank you, little one, for this chance you gave me, either directly or indirectly.