Light and darkness.

After she cleaned her cut she went back over and looked at the chunk of dirt with the dagger sticking out a little.

She carefully took it and began to wipe the dirt away, careful where her hand brushed.

Finally she uncovered it, a dagger with several runes on it.

She eyed it over, but said

"I dont know what these mean.."

"Maybe it's...an athame? Your mother's...?"

He offered as he looked over the dagger while she cleaned it off then looked back to the hole in the ground.

"I don't think there's anything else..."

Even still, he used his hand spade to dig around a little more.

Rema stared at the dagger, Running her finger along the side slowly. Although.. soon after she dropped it. As her fingers ran over it, symbols appeared and began to glow blue.

Once it hit the ground again, the symbols dissapeared, and she just stared at it, her mouth hung open a little

"What was..that?"

Kalbert blinked a few times, not sure if he was seeing a reflection or something else until she dropped it and he bit his lip.

"I-I don't know Rema...m-maybe you shouldn't...t-touch it again..."

Despite his words, her hand slowly reached for the handle, picking the blade up, and after a few moments, the runes reappeared, and she just stared as they seemed to pulse. She whispered barely audibly

"I d-dont know if.. m-mom would of..left this.."

"Do you recognize t-the symbols...?"

Kal was growing increasingly concerned over the dagger and Rema and moved a bit closer. He even slowly put his hand on her shoulder, but his eyes were still watching the dagger.

She slowly shook her head, just staring at the symbols, and slowly put it back on the ground and, as before, the symbols dissapeared.

She looked at him, unsure of what to think, was it a gift or dangerous?

"What do we do?"

Kal chewed on the corner of his mouth a bit, before looking around then back at the dagger. He stayed silent as he thought for awhile then pulled out one of his spare shirts.

"W-we wrap it up in this...a-and take it with us...w-where-ever we go next...."

He looked around the park for the hundredth time hoping he'd suddenly find a clue on where to go next.

"M-maybe...we should check the other places you and your mother made...? Or...maybe try the occult store...if it's still standing..."

"wait.."

She picked it up again, the symbols automatically appearing again from her touch, and she looked it over. She felt something within it.. some power. Standing, she looked at the symbol still smelling faintly of sulfur, and looked at the dagger, before stabbing it into the tree.

As if she had just hit an explosive, a huge wave of energy shot off from the tree, enough force to knock her back, but hanging onto the dagger, she didnt even feel the push.

Although she heard things.. voices.. whispers, that flooded the air, telling her to save them, telling her to run away, as if each voice was telling her to do the opposite of the last

Kal yelped again and would later be glad she pulled him away as he was too shocked and frozen in place to do it himself. He stumbled and stood next to her just watching the tree rot away to nothing and after a few long moments he sputtered.

"D-d-did t-t-that really j-j-just happen...?"

Looking down at the dagger in her hand, she said low

"It means we're on the right track.."

She suddenly turned, and began to run in the direction of her house, hiding the dagger under her shirt to not pull any attention to a teen girl running with a sharp knife

Kal blinked in that unsure manner then quickly tried to ran after her. He stumbled a few times before setting out at a run.

"R-rema wait!"

He yelled out as he tried to catch up with her to find out what was going on and where they were going.

As he finally caught up, Rema was in the living room, using the dagger, dragging the tip along certain spots in the floor

"Come on.. something.. anything.."

She muttered quietly

Kal coughed a bit and rubbed at his chest in a vane attempt to get his lungs to stop hurting...he saw what Rema was doing and coughed again.

"I-is that a g-good idea Rema?..w-what if things e-explode inside t-the house...?"

"It'll be a dead end otherwise Kal.. We need t-.."

Her voice was cut off, as in a flash, she was surrounded in a blue flame, and in the next instant, she was gone, the dagger on its side where she had just been holding it, and the only other sound were whispers, for only a few seconds, but the most audible sound, was a laugh, an evil one

Once again Kal screamed in surprise but his voice was quickly silenced at the sound of the laughter and his eyes slowly narrowed now in anger. All at once he was yelling.

"Y-you kill her sisters...you try to kill us...you threaten us..."

He balled his fists and his face contorted in anger.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM US?!"

~"Easy Kid! That's not gonna help ya one bit..."~

The man who had been in his basement with that had burst into the doorway and tossed what appeared to be a burlap sack over the dagger and grabbed Kal who was still just shouting away at whatever it was that had taken Rema.

He pulled Kal outside to the lawn and Kal fell to his knees...now just crying. Telken frowned a bit and looked back at the house.

~"Hells...this is getting out of hand..."~

"W-where is she...?S-she needs help...we have to help her!"

Kal sputtered frantically but Telken wasn't listening. He let the dagger sit in the grass and he was staring at it lost in thought. Kal was never a violent kid but he couldn't stop himself from finally shoving Telken and saying loudly.

"Rema's in trouble! Stop staring at it and do something!"

The odd man blinked a few times then gave a look to the kid that made him go silent but the look of worry, anger and defiance was plastered all over his face.

~"Listen kid...You're not think'n clearly. This isn't an ordinary dagger...I think it crosses the veil..and summ'n things into our world...if that's the case we can't j'st go across and get to her...well you can't anyway..."~

Telken looked up towards the house.

~"If y'want to really help her, go in there, concentrate on her and try to get her to know you're there...spiritually at least. Go on!"~

Kal wanted to protest but...the veil? To the other side...it was a thought that scared him deeply. He swallowed and giving Telken and the dagger a slight glare, he went back to the house and opened the door. He stepped in and walked to where Rema had been before she vanished. His bravery was starting to waver but he closed his eyes and started to think about Rema as hard as he could.

"Rema...I'm here..."