A pair of piercing eyes stare at me while I pass. The crimson lips belonging to those eyes tremble and say, “I’ve kept my promise, don’t keep your distance.” I look away and hastily continued to my destination. Two weeks later I return to the place again, and I see the same girl, but this time she has lost all of the luster in those piercing eyes of hers. Her clothes are all tattered and her bright complexion, turn dull and dirty. She is covered in cuts and bruises and looks undernourished. I look around, astonished at all of the people who just walk past this destroyed beauty, uncaring. I walk up to the girl and put my hand on her shoulder, “Excuse me miss, but you look like you need a friend,” I say. She begins to shiver with fear when I touch her, “I’ve kept my promise, don’t keep your distance,” is the only thing she says to me. “I’m sorry, I don’t know what you are talking about, but let’s take you back to my house so that you can become healthy again.” I pick her up and by the time we reach my house, she has fallen asleep in my arms. I put her in my bed and soon enough, I’m asleep on the floor. I wake up in the middle of the night to a loud whimpering noise. I look over to the bed and I see this girl floating in mid-air, illuminated and being wrapped with vines of some sort. I rub my eyes to make sure that I am not still asleep, and when I glance back up, she has fallen back down into the bed and she screams, “Don’t look at me!” My curiosity peaks and I must see what had happened. I gently pull the sheet down to reveal a strange creature. It had snow white hair and beautiful skin. There were beautiful lotus flowers all over its body and in its hair that just increased its beauty.  I look up and the same piercing eyes and crimson lips are on this creature’s face; this is when I realize just what the girl from before had meant. When I woke up, I was in my bed and I was sure that the night before had all been a dream. Yet, when I looked beside me a lotus flower sat in an hourglass.