With her unconditional love and her faith that's unyielding, Charisma Stone is a magnet to their obsessions. "She was losing blood. Too much blood, as it spilled out of the wounds on her chest, her stomach, her sides, her legs, her arms. Too many holes, too much blood, too much pain, too much weakness, too little time. All odds were against her, yet she continued to fight the unconsciousness that simply wanted to absorb her in its bleakness, its blackness, its painlessness, with a primal, animalistic intent ... survival. She left a trail of red on white as she dragged herself through unpacked...

"How many years had I hated my father because I thought he had betrayed us, betrayed me? His paranoia, words, and teachings all a symptom of his mental illness; a mental illness he never had. They had controlled my suspicions the same way, by using the fear that I would wind up like my father if I didn't keep it contained, hidden, buried deep inside me - the truth. The truth I had always known. My Dad may not have been able to save himself. He may not have been able to save Marathon, NY, or all the areas the parents that attended Kadrin's ceremony had come from, but he was going to save all...

The eyes of the cat will tell you what you need to know... 'I'd spent my life fighting for those I was loyal to. Now, I just wanted to run so that my losses would never catch up to me. I never wanted to feel again. Everyone else had wound up together. I'd wound up alone. Finally, I felt the anger, right down to the core of me, shaking me, escaping in a scream so loud and so fierce it sounded nothing like me. I wanted to avenge my losses so that I could know it was all worthwhile, and everything I'd done and sacrificed would be worth it. This was far from over. I wanted revenge ' Catina...

She just wants to escape from being hunted Her name was Aliyah. Her power was love, and his duty. It is what kept them alive. "If my love cannot overpower your duty, nor your duty my love - In the name of love, my name is Aliyah Destiny Demonica " And she jumped. "No " he howled as he dove for her, but They had already snatched her away into Nothingness, giving them the power in the knowing of her name, as it echoed throughout infinite miles of the emptiness. Aliyah, the only human to travel the Otherland, the Lightness, the Darkness, the Nothingness, and the Forbidden. The Bylaws forbade...

As I floated, chattering in cold, the freezing waters spraying my face and mouth, the salt burning my throat; as the night tide whipped me back and forth, and I could see nothing but inky blackness for miles and miles all around me, and no sense of direction as to where the closest shore was, I wondered. To fight the bad guys, I'd had to become like them, with that precarious line so blurred that I could no longer tell the difference between the good and the bad guys, anymore, or even which one I now was. I'd caused a revolution. The perfect justice to fit their crimes. But what would my...

"So, I've been here over a month and a half now, but when I ask about my purpose, I'm not given an answer. I still want to kill these people." - Catina Salsbury I needed to save the world. It wasn't a want or a desire; it was a necessity. It was something I absolutely needed to do. Searching for the meaning behind it, I came up empty. Previously, I'd always had meaning attached to it. Fighting for my parents, my sister, Charlie, then fighting for my life. From there, my fight became taking the Modules down, fighting its Makers, which then led me to fighting the President, which turned into...