Sixteen

M O N G R E L

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Soul Mates

I don't know how it is you are so familiar to me- or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before- in another time, a different place - some other existence. 

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Everything was black before white smoke drifted at the edges of Arianna's vision and she suddenly found herself standing in a small meadow. 

The edges of the meadow were pitch black, the girl was certain that if she walked into the tree line she would never walk out. Arianna twirled around, trying to see the purpose of her being in the magical place before she caught something moving out of the corner of her eye.

Arianna spun around and watched as a she-wolf walked into the clearing. The wolf was the