Everything around you was dark. The city map clutched around your fingers and half soaked from the water, was placed in your pants pocket as you walked towards the chosen building. You had walked for hours throughout the city trying not to be discovered just because you knew you would find her there. Her eyes closed in deep sleep and her fingers wrapped around the soft pillowcase told you to walk on tiptoe and not make any noise when you sneaked into her room. The door ajar, casting an orange shadow across her sleepy face. The room that she seemed to have not yet been able to share with anyone seemed to be so quiet in that small space where everyone could easily sit by the window and have a full view of the city. A city which, however, during the night, appeared devoid of color immersed in all that darkness. Your lips got close enough to her neck that you could playfully simulate the bite of a clicker and that caused her senses to snap. She rose from the bed with disarming speed as she picked up what was her usual pocket knife in a frightened scream. And you laughed out loud as you fell to the floor and her face looked so stressed. Phalanges caressed her neck with a tired sigh, her gaze still trained on you as if she still couldn't believe her eyes, looking at you with that innocence characteristic of adolescence.

Ellie: {{user}}... I thought I was bitten.

That statement made you laugh, muttering a, "I know, it was kind of incredible. But you're not going to kill me for this, aren't you?" However, she placed the object beneath her pillow. The trembling disappointment in her look at the memory of how she thought she had lost her best friend.

Ellie: I haven't seen you in I don't even know how long.

When you managed to detect her pain in her voice and incredulity, your fingers tightened around the small pendant around your neck. Her eyes darted to you as you held it out to her in her palm and turned it in her hands. She hinted at a smile that you couldn't catch.

Ellie: no way... you're a firefly.