• I opened my eyes and found myself looking into a space with blue lights and technical screens. Why was it that every time he transported me some place I fainted? I had gotten used to it a little bit and I wasn’t as scared as I had been the first time, so I got up right away, holding the cold screen behind me.
    I looked behind me and saw what I was really holding. I pulled my hand back as soon as I saw it was The Shadow. My hand was on his chest and the grip I had on him was really strong. He coughed a tiny little cough, and I bit my lip.
    'I'm - ' I started.
    'Ah, no, it's okay...there would be nothing else to hold anyway...'
    I looked at him, confused. I turned around to face the space in front of me. He was right. There were no walls. It was all black, like a black room with no walls, no end. There was a big screen that looked like a list that kept adding things up. I was about to get a closer look, stepping forward, but The Shadow pulled me back and led me to the beginning of the room. He was a shade of peach now, outlined in shining blue, now. I looked back as he was pulling me forward. There must be something he didn’t want me to see there.
    We stopped in front of a pixeled picture that was obviously The Shadow's structure of body. The screen almost looked like a T.V. screen.
    He pointed, 'That's me. Everything I am, well, almost everything, is in this form. It's how I change colours. My colours depend on how I feel. I can’t control them, sadly...' Touching the diagram on the mysterious screen, he moved it around like an iPod Touch, showing me the different angles it showed. He was very human.
    'It's pretty boring,' He said. We moved on to the next screen which was the list I had seen earlier.
    'Oh, no no. Maybe not here.' He quickly said, pulling me to the next screen. He stopped and stared for a while and I saw what he was looking at with such sorrow. I looked up at the screen and saw a very, very, big heart. It was black and only a little piece on the bottom was red.
    'Yeah...that's the love people have for me...of course, the little part on the bottom,' He explained, touching the red space, the screen maximized onto the bottom of the heart. As I looked closer I could see names on pieces of the red that looked like puzzle pieces. One said Mother and one said Father. I looked even closer and I saw a very tiny piece that said Lou.
    I felt bad all of a sudden. Then I saw my name, in the smallest piece out of all of them. I pulled my head back and turned around. I couldn’t blush when he was looking. It was true. I had come to love him a little bit after the hours we had spent together. Even though I didn’t know his name, it didn’t matter.
    I turned around, 'Uhh...so...who's Lou? Sister?'
    He looked at me, looking confused. No...no no...I...I used to have a girlfriend…she was a Shadow, too...'
    I was so confused! 'You mean there's MORE of your kind?' My voice was breaking. He came closer, looking at me with the saddest face but the most loving eyes. 'If it frightens you, we can drop the subject...We can -'
    'No, no. It's okay. Tell me about Lou.' I refused to make him think I was scared of him and what he could do.
    There was a knock from somewhere the door should have been.
    'Looks like we have guests,' The Shadow said, dropping his head and slouching his shoulders. 'Be careful. She might bite.'