Aery opened her eyes to find blackness surrounding her, blackness and pain. Again with the pain... hadn't she suffered enough in the last three weeks?
"Where am I?" she asked.
[i]In the realm of the dead.[/i] A voice purred in her ear. [i]You can't talk here, except by your mind. You of all people should know that, Tazean. I'd have thought your lover would have let you go by now, young love being so fickle. But you're still here for us to enjoy, until she finally decides to end your torture.[/i]
"Tazean? My... My name is Aerienna Silverheart. I'm not dead. My soul was switched."
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Aery's body opened it's eyes. "Wha...? I were dead!" She spoke in a young boy's voice, peering around her with green-brown, not silver-blue, eyes. She saw Silly laying on the ground. "Silly? Silenia? Silenia, get up, it's me." And Silly bolted to her feet, her eyes wide with hope. "Tazzy! Tazean, where are you? I hear you! I hear you, Tazzy!"
Tazz wiggled his fingers. They were too long to be his. He looked down, seeing the rounded bulges on his chest. "Whaaa...Okay then. I'm a girl... now?"
Silly sprinted over, tackling him into the mud. "Aery. Oh, Aery, I was so scared. Wait... Aery, what's wrong with your eyes?!"
"My name be Tazean, not Aery. Aery be dead."
Silly fell back, staring at him in horror. "Your eyes... Tazzy's eyes, Aery, but your name is Aery. Tazzy... Tazzy's dead." She sobbed, curling over into a balll.
Tazz looked at her, eyes going huge. "I'm no dead, no more'n ye are, Silly! Aery be the one who's gone dead. I swear, I dunno wha's happenin', but I be Tazz. I always been Tazz."
Turning to Ame, her eyes huge, Silly shouted, "Amethystia Naeren Silverheart, what the hell did you do to Aery and Tazz?!!?"