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Air was rushing around him, and try as he might, he couldn't get his wings working. They flapped uselessly around him, stinging his back and pulling at the skin.
Rin was falling.
There was no time to panic, though Rin tried. He hit the ground before he saw it rushing towards him, and he was unconscious before he knew he hit the ground.
Slowly, Rin's eyes opened, blinking in time with the pounding in his head. The light was bright, but most definitely not heavenly, and as he tried to look around, nothing seemed familiar.
He was in a room, small but well furnished. Besides the bed, there was a little nightstand and a chair. Rin tried to sit up to see more, but his head throbbed sending a streak of black through his vision, so he concentrated on what he could see.
On the nightstand, there was a glass of water, but when Rin opened the drawer a crack, there was nothing inside. The walls were pure white and all of the furniture he could see was unfinished wood. Light streamed in from a window, but it was behind him, and Rin couldn't turn around to look out of it.
So Rin lay, and tried to absorb himself in his thoughts to take him away from both the pain and the situation. But his thoughts were about the situation.
He had fallen. They hadn't told him what he had done wrong. There was no arrest, no trial, not even a warning. Just one second he was up there and the next he was down here.
Or was he? Maybe it was an accident, just the wrong signal sent out and they had come to collect him. Pain forgotten, Rin twisted around so suddenly in bed that he almost knocked the water down with the blanket. He grabbed onto the window sill and pulled himself up, blinking to get the spots out of his vision.
Miles and miles of fields was all Rin could see. Not heavenly at all, but also nothing like the spawling cities he'd heard about on earth. His heart dropped and he felt tears well up in his eyes.
"Hey, hey, lay back down!" Rin hadn't even heard the door open, but suddenly he was being grabbed and forced on his side. “You hit your head pretty hard,” the voice said, and the pain rushed back, Rin’s vision once again going white. “Are you okay?”
Rin blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision and see who his savior was. He nodded as best as he could.
“Good.” He heard his savior sit down in the chair just as his vision cleared, and suddenly, Rin was looking at someone beautiful. Thick brown hair, olive skin, and a lovely smile. He wanted to smile back, but something stopped him.
His eyes. They looked normal, a regular green, but they didn’t match his smile. They were dull, and when he blinked, Rin could have sworn that they flashed black for a split second.
“You had quite a fall. Were you a skydiver? I see the planes fly over sometimes.”
Rin couldn’t place it. His head hurt too much to think, but he knew those eyes weren’t angel, and though he’d never met a human, he didn’t think human eyes would be so unsettling. “I fell,” Rin muttered, not taking his eyes off of the other. He didn’t know what a skydiver or a plane was, but he had fallen from the sky. “I don’t remember.”
“That’s okay, take your time,” he said, his gentle smile putting Rin at ease once again. “Oh, my name’s Makoto, by the way. I heard a thud and found you out back--I’m surprised you’re alive at all, but there’s a tree that must have broken your fall a bit.” He shrugged. “But as long as you’re fine. Do you remember your name?”
“Rin.”
“Where are you from?”
Heaven, but Rin figured he shouldn’t answer so honestly. Though his head was fuzzy, he remembered all of the lessons in caution he had received. He shook his head.
The smile. “Well, then you can just stay here until you recover. Nothing goes on around here, anyway. I guess I’ll leave you to get more rest. Just call if you need anything; I’ll be in the next room.”
Makoto stood up and left, and Rin closed his eyes immediately, a new wave of nausea and pain hitting him like a brick wall.
But it wasn’t soon enough; Rin still managed to catch a glimpse of the small wisps of black smoke following Makoto as he closed the door.
Demon.