Prologue
    A plane flew overhead. It circled something in the distance once, and dropped something else. The sky exploded in a blaze of red and orange light. A small car swerved sharply and hit a 6 foot thick concrete barrier head-on.
     Screeeechhhh... Boooommmm!!!
     A small 9 year-old girl emerged from the wreckage of the car, her left arm hanging limply by her side. She was covered in scratches from the shattered glass, and bleeding from a cut on her head. She groped her way towards the front passenger door to ask her parents what happened and to see if they were OK. When she managed to get the door open, she saw the mangled and bloody bodies of her parents. She cried out, she knew her life had changed forever.
     She sank to the ground and retched. When she came to her senses, she moved away from the car because she knew it would explode. She couldn't say how she knew, she just knew. She was 20 feet away when the car exploded and sent the fuel-fed flames into the still orange sky. The blast knocked her off her feet. She hit the ground and moaned, she could feel the darkness coming to embrace her when she Saw a figure. A man, clothed in the darkness, was before her. He smiled with his blue eyes - Shinigami. Shinigami would rescue her, he would save her, she knew it...
     She passed out with a smile on her face.

     In Block 5 of a mental ward, a girl with dark hair and dark violet eyes woke up from an old, painful dream. She screamed "Shinigami!!"as she scratched and bit herself in punishment for The Seeing. The nurses came in to subdue her and strap her arms to the bed. It was the 3rd time that night, the 10th time that week. She had been in and out of various institutions since her parents had died 5 years ago. A pity, they said. Such a pretty girl, they said, with great possibilities, if only she was sane. She had her good days, you could tell because she would sing like an angel all day long and be cooperative and nice to the other patients. On her bad days, she would retch on purpose, refuse to eat or sleep, and injure just about everyone around her. Such a pity, they said. The girl screamed and cried out for her "Shinigami".
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