"Wait, Darkwolf! Please come back for a moment!"
As he hears the voice, Darkwolf freezes in his tracks. Turning around slowly, he nearly rubs his eyes to make sure that they are not lying to him. Running towards Mirashi and Darkwolf is ...KITH!?!? And as if that was not enough, she runs up and puts one arm around the waist of Mirashi in a most familiar manner!!
"Darkwolf, please give me a moment to explain. I know how this must look to you but I can explain if you give me a chance. It's all my fault anyway when you come right down to it. And from hearing what Mirashi just said, I now see that he will benefit from hearing this story as well.
"First of all, despite what your eyes are telling you, I am not Kith. My name is Shard. This is the story of my life...and of Kith's as well.
"There was once a young girl, who's name I do not even know, that suffered a horrible fate. She was captured by bandits in her homeland. They tortured her and raped her for many weeks. Finally, when she could not survive anymore, they dumped her body along the roadside assuming that she would die of exposure. If the girl had not gotten help, she would have surely died. The help she recieved came from two girls, Kith and Shard. that was the day of our birth as you will see.
"Unable to face reality as she had lived it she hid within her mind. In her mental anguish, her mind had split asunder. Two personalities were formed. One of innocence and beauty who remembered nothing of the past. And one of anger and vengance who lived to train and grow strong so that none could abuse her again. Kith was the innocent, and I was the vengeful one.
"As Mirashi has said, I was money hungry as a Sash. I hoped to pay for items to protect myself with. But I could not even win enough fights to progress in my training, let alone buy expensive protections with. After much fighting and losing, I was at the point of no return. Filled with despair that I could not fight well enough to protect myself, I called for a match that would end in my death if I lost. Mirashi answered that call, being one who had killed many before and thought that another would be no different.
"Little did he know that we would form a bond in that battle. A strange twisted bond of love that ended up with him begging me to forsake my death wish and live life with him. I refused and he did as I demanded. He killed me. And unknowingly he killed Kith as well, as I was about to discover.
"As my life's blood ran out, I felt another mind come to the surface within me. It was Kith! For the first time, I realized consciously that we were two minds in one body! Kith and I had both been leaving seperate lives in one body! When Mirashi killed me, he also killed Kith. He did not know the truth of our existence though and thought that I just went by two different names when all of Kith's former students began seeking him out and accusing him of her murder.
"Kith and I went to heaven though, since her good outweighed my evil. We remained two seperate entitys though. After that, Heaven wasn't sure what to do with me, for I surely had not earned my way there by myself. I hung in limbo for a time before my mother Tsin told me that the matter had finally been decided. There was appearently someone who's love was drawing me back to the mortal plain. I was given a second chance at life and returned to find Mirashi grieving and wishing for my return.
"Since that day, we have been together in life and love. I have taken pains not to be seen by anyone lest they see me and believe me to be Kith. I have now revealed myself so that I need not hide for the rest of my life. Just understand that Kith's death is my unwitting fault, and Mirashi should not be held responsible. Now that you both have heard my story, what do either of you have you to say?"
