Her name was Aliyah. Her power was love, and his duty. It is what kept them alive. "If my love cannot overpower your duty, nor your duty my love - In the name of love, my name is Aliyah Destiny Demonica!" And she jumped. "No!" he howled as he dove for her, but They had already snatched her away into Nothingness, giving them the power in the knowing of her name, as it echoed throughout infinite miles of the emptiness.

Aliyah, the only human to travel the Otherland, the Lightness, the Darkness, the Nothingness, and the Forbidden. The Bylaws forbade any human that found their way there from ever returning, but since childhood, she's been able to resist their restraints and roam freely. Hunted in Otherworld. Hunted in Otherland. No memories of her travels, but something kept her going back.

She'd crossed the Forbidden, but only in that crossing did she set the path.

His duty was to protect her. He knew that now. And so he stepped into the Nothingness, of the purest of black and the starkest of silence, knowing that he'd never return in the absence of her. One could perceive that she'd been consumed by the Nothingness, but it only takes one to disperse of none, just as one microscopic mass will demolish the empty. And now there were two.