Hello everyone!

Here I am with another translated story of mine (my mothertongue is German, so there might be some mistakes). It's one of my favourite stories because I think that I've written it pretty well (at least in German xD) and it has an unique story.

So, if you read the summary you saw that the pairings are Zelos x Sheena and Yuan x Raine. The latter one was supposed to be in brackets, but it doesn't work. *sigh* It was supposed to be that way because in the main story there are only hints to this pairing. But at the end there will be also a chapter with special Yuan x Raine scenes, so it will be left to you if you want to read them or not. =) The reason why I made it like that is because I'm a devoted Kraine fan, and I somehow had a bad feeling with pairing Raine up with Yuan ... xD I don't have these concerns anymore, but oh well ... ^^ In any case this is another reason why this story is distinct from all my other stories because I've never paired up Raine with anybody else than Kratos before. But I just couldn't let Kratos appear in this story, and so Yuan had to take his place. xD

Well, that's that. Another thing I want to mention are the quotes. I've tried to find them in English, but I wasn't really successful with the first ones and then I gave up. I decided to keep the German quotes and just translate them into English myself. (That's the reason why the probably don't sound that well. xD) The quotes often give hints to what will happen, as well as the title of the respective chapter.

So ... I hope you'll enjoy this story. =)

Disclaimer/Claimer: I neither own Tales of Symphonia nor the quotes, but some characters appearing in the story.

~ Prologue ~

„Das ganze Leben wird dem Glücklichen zu kurz. Dem Leidenden nimmt eine Nacht kein Ende."

("The whole life gets too short for the happy one. For the suffering one the night doesn't come to an end.")

Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs (1764 – 1847)

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It sometimes really is astonishing how fast life can change. It's like the wind, blowing at one moment in one direction, at another moment in another one. Just now you're happy and actually having everything you need, but already at the next moment you have lost everything you had. Your possessions, your friends, your place in life.

The thought that you'll never be able to do the things you still wanted to do someday is then torturing you. The realizing that you frittered your life away with unimportant things is bothering you. But worst is the assumption that you'll never be able to go back.

I will now tell you a story that's exactly about this. It's a story about despair, loneliness and grief, but also about love, friendship and luck, and an eternally lasting night in which light brings hope, but also fear.

But above all it's my story.