Another new one-shot series from yours truly. This was written for a contest on http:// titans. 7forum. net/ forum. htm, a crazy awesome group of Titans fans. If you spend any time at all on the web, you should look at joining. Just tell them Snow sent you. Trust me, you will be welcomed.

Starfire was strong; stronger than she looked, stronger than anyone she'd yet to meet, at least on this strange new planet. Weakness was unacceptable where she came from. The weak, except for the very small and the very old, were scorned, were trampled, were obliterated, back on her home planet. And so, she was strong. She had to be, as the princess of that people, there was no choice.

But everyone, even those who are strong, who have to be, is afraid of something, and she was no exception. You see, Starfire, strong and brave as she was, was afraid of the dark.

Sure, she could get around it most of the time, ignore it, or claim that the reason she lit their darkened ways without being asked was that she had trouble seeing in the dark, unalike the boys. But, the truth was that she was afraid. Not truly of the dark, perhaps, but the things that it hid from her. The Gordanians had kept her in a dark cell; the rage and fury she had displayed in her escape hadn't only been at her capture, their intentions. Some of it was terror leaking out of her body, anger that she'd been frightened in the first place.

The others would have difficulty understanding her fears. Cyborg, with his mechanical eye, had no reason to fear the dark, for he could easily pierce through it without the help of a light, and Robin had been raised in darkness. Beast Boy's senses were incredible, and his vision was no exception, especially in the dark. Raven didn't fear the dark; rather, she seemed to embrace it.

But, then, everyone had a fear, and Starfire was certainly no exception.

I think Robin's next; I'll post again tomorrow.

...SnowFallsSlow...