Plum rubbed her head. It ached, her whole body ached. Then she suddenly realized she was awake. She rushed up from whatever she was on, fell down, then she jumped up too fast and almost passed out. She looked at what she was sitting on and it seemed to be a bed. It was dark where she was except from a blue light coming from a candle. It was odd since candle's don't give off blue light. The same mysterious person, who touched her with the golden ring on his hand, entered the room. He lifted off the hood of his dark cloak and it revealed a face of a man in his late twenties. He had blond hair that was pulled back and tied. "I am Taorn," He said to her, "You are Plum? You know about the Beloved, no?" Plum rubbed her head again..."The Beloved?" Plum asked, knowing not what the Beloved was. "You have lost it all. I used too much power on you." Taorn said that with a worried look, then explained; "I have a ring that can put a victim into sleeping death..one touch from my hand, and they fall into sleep forever. Unless, however, they are given a magic herb that will revive them, but if they are not given the herb within a month; they are sleeping forever." "The Beloved, Dear Plum, is what Kiyone and Harmony taught you about. She wasn't a goddess though, she is an immortal being on this earth. Unlike the one you heard about, she is an evil witch using her powers to kill and bring suffering to all the lands. I need to know all you knew about her." Plum closed her eyes and sighed, then explained about the one known as Beloved.