"Where are we gonna get there?" a girl's voice whined. She winced slightly to herself upon realizing that she was whining, but quickly brushed it aside when she remembered she had been sitting in the stupid carriage for a whole four hours.
"Now, now, Sarina," her father chided gently, "We'll get there when we get there."
She sighed. "I know, Father, but I still don't want to travel to such a small village. It's very....-" here she wrinkled her nose "-poor," she finished lamely. It had nothing to do with disgust for the less fortunate; though she didn't like being anywhere where she could not touch her precious gems, poverty alone could not make her so anxious. Everytime she heard about the village, she felt nervous. Something big was there, she could feel it.
Her father did not sense her discomfort. He laughed at her words. "Then why are you so eager to get there, little lamb?" Her pet name. Sarina rather loathed it.
"Well, the faster we arrive, the faster we can leave, right?"
Her father laughed again. "Of course, darling." He glanced up. "Oh, look, Sarina, we're almost there!"
Sarina leaned forward, to look through the carriage window at a new world.
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"Hey, Yuuki, get the door, will you?"
Yuuki sighed. It seemed like ever since she began to help her mother part-time, Yuuki was always catering to the whims of rich customers. Stupid ones, at that. After all, why would anyone want to go to a Pre-Disaster shop? Pre-Disaster goods were wasteful, and more often than not useless. Ah well. They did make a good profit.
Yuuki pasted on her best 'I enjoy your company and have nothing better to do with my life but satisfy your every desire' smile and greeted the person. "Welcome to Nao's Pre-Disaster shop! How may I help you?"
The woman who had just walked through the door had long silver hair, longer than Yuuki's black and purple mix. Her eyes were an even paler silver than her hair, and she looked as if she had no idea that she had just walked into a shop.
"Hello...." she said softly. "Is this the home of Yuuki Sendo...?"
Yuuki blinked. In their small town, it was not uncommon for people to know each other. Especially Yuuki. Both of her parents had light brown hair and eyes, so when Yuuki was born, with purple eyes and her strange hair, she had been the talk of the town. Everyone suspected her mother of having an affair, but no one knew with who. Even stranger was Yuuki. After all, the girl was rumored to have one point at been suicidal. Really, it was no big deal that this stranger sought her out.
Except this stranger was weird.
Well, Yuuki could deal with it. "That's me!" she answered brightly. No matter what questions were thrown her way, Yuuki would simply dodge the question and then steer this woman in the direction of their most expensive wares. Funny, that the gossip was so good for business.
The woman opened her mouth. Yuuki steeled herself for the worst ("Why'd you try to kill yourself?" "Why do you look so strange?" wink , but instead what came out of the woman's mouth was this:
"Hello, my long lost friend...."
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Many, many miles away from their strange meeting, a young blonde held close her lover.
"Oh, my Taranes," she whispered. "Let us never part...."
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