"Hey there Lilly." Anna walked into the room, with quiet steps she approached Lilly's bed, sitting down next to her.
A gentle, concerned smile adorned Anna's face. "You feeling OK? You just left breakfast behind pretty fast."
"Hey there Lilly." Anna walked into the room, with quiet steps she approached Lilly's bed, sitting down next to her.
A gentle, concerned smile adorned Anna's face. "You feeling OK? You just left breakfast behind pretty fast."
As Anna sat down, Lily hugged the pillow tighter, almost burying her face in it. That gentle smile was just too much!
"I... I'm okay!" she finally said once she calmed down a bit. She raised her head from her pillow and gave Anna a bright smile. "I'm tough, you know? I was just a little bit startled, that's all. I never, never expected Ron to actually propose... But I'm very happy for you!"
Not.
If it weren't because of Hitomi's words she would already be planning how to make it look like an accident. But the ring of truth of those dreadful words had stopped her murderous fantasies short. Now she had something better.
"I... I don't really like Ron much, you know? I don't keep any secrets from you so you're probably sick of hearing me complain about him, Annie... but if you're happy, then I'm happy. Because I love you more than anyone else, so if you're happy with Ron, then I'm perfectly happy for you!"
'Except he won't make you happy. Only I can do that. Why can't you see?'
Anna grabbed Lilly and pulled her into a hug. "I'm glad you understand. Ron likes you, you know?" She giggled as she remembered how Ron and Lilly had first met. "He's going to be family soon.... But remember this." She kissed Lilly on the forehead, "I'll always be your big sister." She stood up, gave a cheerful wave, and left the room.
Leto Wright
So, she thought, 5th and Main at ten. She could do that. However, she quickly ran into a problem: she had no clue what time it was. It's funny, how much you rely on sight. Even with her... echolocation, was the best term that she had to describe it, she still ran into problems. What tells time? Clocks, watches, phones or computers. All of them are behind glass, or projected on a display. When you can only look at surfaces, none of those are helpful. Leto realized that she was eventually going to have to spend some money on a watch without glass, hands exposed somehow. But, that was the future. Now she had to figure out how to get there on time.
She managed to work out a solution to that. As she was blind, or at least to the world, she had mostly spent her last few days listening to music. So, she just asked one of the nurses to tell her when it was 9 PM, so that she could go to sleep. Hours came and went, lost in abstract soundscapes...
And then, it was time. The nurse poked her head in the door, informing her of the time. Leto thanked her, and watched her retreat from the door. But of course, going to sleep wasn't in the cards. She instead rummaged around in a chest of drawers in the room, finding a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and a light vest. Throwing on a pair of sunglasses, she slipped out of the window, into the night.
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The cool poise and elegance that Anna regularly conducted herself with only ever faltered around Lily and scant few others, she knew. It was one of the reasons that she loved her so much, being one of the few people who ever saw this warm and affectionate side of her. She was friendly, to be certain, but she always had an unreachable air to her, a guarded side that she only ever let down around a select few persons. So, being one of these exceptions, the sudden hug did not catch the young girl by surprise at all. Still, she blushed furiously and buried her face in the young woman’s shoulder, letting herself be held and holding the other in return, her slender arms wrapping around her sister’s waist gently.
"I'm glad you understand. Ron likes you, you know?"
Her grip tightened ever so slightly and her eyes, hidden from view as they were, hardened, sparkling coldly and menacingly, like rubies. But, aside from that, her anger was not reflected on her face at all. Years of mimicking Anna had taught Lily to always remain pleasant, charming and, most of all, elegant in front of her adored sister. The only witnesses of the true face behind the mask were her stuffed animals and they would undoubtedly keep their silence. But, beneath the cool mask, the young girl was raging.
‘No, I don’t understand! I could never understand! He’s wrong for you! Wrong! But don’t worry… I’ve found someone who can help us… Soon, Annie… I’ll free you soon. ’
The younger redhead’s increasingly dark thoughts were derailed by Anna’s soft giggle, clear like silver bells. That beautiful, reserved yet honest laughter eased all her burdens, freed her from anger. It made her heartbeat race once more, until she was sure it was just about to burst out of her chest from all the love she had for her older sister. Lily was so distracted by it that she didn’t even listen to Anna’s next words until the older girl had pushed herself slightly apart and kissed her on the forehead.
“I’ll always be your big sister.”
Lily just stood there paralyzed, blushing harder than ever before, her face almost as red as he hair, as Anna stood up, waved and left, her footsteps soft, and yet purposeful, graceful and yet firm.
As soon as the door closed behind Anna, Lily emitted a high pitched noise, like a teakettle boiling over, and toppled lifelessly into her bed, causing various stuffed animals to fall off the edges and unto the floor. She grabbed her pillow, hugged it tightly, and kicked her feet in the air over and over sending what few stuffed animals hadn’t fallen down flying, even as she drowned her happy squeals into her pillow. When her glee had finally subsided, she was left breathing heavily, almost as if she had just finished an hour at the fencing school. Still, her face was stuck in a smile as she searched her nightstand for her alarm clock, setting it to ring at eight thirty p.m. Her preparations finished, she opened the drawer and dug out the glowing rose gem, once again becoming entranced by its intricate beauty
She smiled.
If anyone could have seen that smile illuminated by the red gem's glow, they would have recoiled at the sight of it.
‘I’ll save you, Annie. I’ll make you truly happy. Forever and ever. Just you wait.’
The Park
There was no moon out tonight.
Only the dim streetlights and the stars lit the way.
A what appeared to be a young girl waited in the park. She watched the dark streets intently. Waiting for the four girls she knew would help her.
The clock struck Ten, and Hitomi smiled.
They'd be here soon.
Leto Wright
Leto had read books on astronauts, on the Apollo missions. She had heard from those that the most interesting feature of the moon was not the landscape, but the sky. She knew what they meant now. The sky was empty. No stars, no clouds... to Leto, it was a utterly black void, devoid of features, black void, hanging over the fragile earth. It's strange, she thought, to see an empty sky. Very.... very isolating.
She eventually managed to find her way to the park, her inability to read any street signs proving to not be as great a difficulty as she thought it might. That strange girl was there, of course. "I don't think I ever got your name."
Yuki Tomoko
Arriving at the edge of the park Yuki stopped for a moment before spotting Hitomi and moving toward the being whose appearance resembled a young girl her path lit only by dim lamps and starlight while contemplating what the black moon foretold about the fate of those who met under it. Wishing that her soon to be comrades fates would end happily.
Slipping out of the house had been simple. Her parents gave her free rein to do as she pleased so all she had to do was lie and tell them that she’d be watching a movie at a friend’s house and returning late. They didn’t ask her any further questions, only wishing her to have fun and to be careful with vapid smiles on their faces. So, Lily had taken a shower, changed her clothes, and packed the beautiful rose gem into her purse. The young girl was almost out the door before she stopped, returned to her room and, finally, tossed a small can of pepper spray into her purse as well. She left without looking back.
Even if Lily really, really wanted to believe in what this meeting with the weirdo Hitomi could provide, that didn’t mean she couldn’t take some small precautions.
Because, seriously, the idea of meeting a group of strangers in a park, late at night, alone, when one of them was a freaky magician was rather on the creepy side of things.
‘Oh, the things I do for love.’
The bus ride was boring and uneventful, which was a positive sign in her mind. Still, she was feeling rather jittery and nervous as she made her way through the dimly lit park. There was no moon out, the sky being overcast, and her path was lit only by weakly pulsing street lamps and whatever faint starlight made its way through the shadowed sky.
‘Totally not creepy at all,’ Lily thought as she removed the small tube of pepper spray from her purse and grasped it tightly, concealing it in a dainty hand.
Her steps were brisk, partly unease and partly the desire to get this over with quickly so that Hitomi could uphold her end of the bargain. She arrived on the dot, as was proper, only to find that two others were already there along with the infuriating blonde that held the key to saving Anna from a future rife with disappointment. Still, they were so far that Lily couldn’t immediately tell their features in the dim lighting until she got closer and when she did, the young redhead let out a small gasp of unfelt surprise and she quickly hid the small tube in her purse again, slowing down her pace as the mask promptly fastened itself and her attitude shifted.
“Oh my, is that you, Leto? What a pleasant surprise. I haven’t seen you in a while,” Lily said in a soft and slightly cheery tone as she approached the small group with unhurried steps. Promptly she was besides Leto and then, quite suddenly, she embraced the slightly older girl in a brief hug and then deftly hid behind her, placing her cousin between Hitomi, the stranger and herself. “Who’s you friend, Leto? It’s only polite to introduce us, you know?”
Cassie Blake
The day had been mentally exhausting. Seeing her friend's cold lifeless body. Meeting Hitomi. Finding out about those monsters. The monsters that killed. She couldn't forgive them. She wouldn't. Cassie stared at the bullet in her hand.
Cassie owed it to herself to find out more. This was one of the moment's everyone talks about. A life changing opportunities that when wasted people regret forever. When Cassie went to ask her parents if she could go out for a walk they agreed immediately once she she it'd "make her feel better." It didn't feel right lying to her parents like that when they were so worried about her. It wasn't like she could tell them about Hitomi unless she wanted to spend the next few years in therapy.
By the time she arrived four girls were already there. One of them was Hitomi but she didn't recognize any of the others. Two of them were conversing. Aah, it really was dark out. Now that she was here she kind of felt like running away. She took a deep breath to calm herself.
In for a penny in for a pound....
Hitomi smiled, they were all here.
"Lucky! All three showed up! Isn't that great Yuki-chan!" She giggled, "Now then... let's all introduce ourselves, ne?"
Leto Wright
"Nice to see you too, Lily." Wait, thought Leto, what was going on? Lily? What was she doing here? Magic, she could believe. But, cousin? Her mind also wandered to something slightly unrelated: people's eyes were quite strange when you couldn't see anything in them. No pupil, no iris... just glass orbs. It was profoundly unsettling.“Oh my, is that you, Leto? What a pleasant surprise. I haven’t seen you in a while,” Lily said in a soft and slightly cheery tone as she approached the small group with unhurried steps.
"To be honest Lily, I never got her name. That's probably a good place to start."Promptly she was besides Leto and then, quite suddenly, she embraced the slightly older girl in a brief hug and then deftly hid behind her, placing her cousin between Hitomi, the stranger and herself. “Who’s you friend, Leto? It’s only polite to introduce us, you know?”
'Eeeh? You don't know who they are? You're so useless!'
But she doesn't actually say that.
"Oh, is that so? So they're no friends of yours then?" Lily asked while pouting slightly, her voice giving no further indication of her thoughts other than a slight hint of disappointment. Still mostly hiding behind Leto, Lily took the opportunity to look at those that had gathered under the moonless sky. There was her cousin, Leto, and the irritating freak, Hitomi, with her disturbing pale silver eyes, but the other two were complete strangers. A mousy looking girl with brown hair and glasses as well as an older looking blonde with kind eyes were the others she could make out, illuminated by the dim lighting at their gathering spot.
Both so drab and completely plain in comparison to Anna.
'So they're the other people that Hitomi has hired for this job of hers, hm? They don't look reliable at all!'
She took a moment to examine them more closely and scowled a little as she realized that they were all in casual clothes so she couldn't tell which school they went to. Did they commute along her usual route or did they live further away? Still, it wasn't like it mattered at all in the end. With Leto being present there was really only one way left to act.
Holding on to Leto's arm with one hand, Lily stepped out slightly from behind the other girl, lifting the corner of her scarlet skirt ever so slightly as she did a small curtsy while smiling softly. It might be a little over the top, but better safe than sorry.
"Good evening, how do you do? My name's Lily, like the flower, not short for Lillian. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." She let that hang in the air for a moment before holding unto Leto again. "I assume that you're the others that Hitomi brought along for this 'job' she spoke of?"
If they weren't she could still push Leto and run screaming for help.
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Cassie Blake
Hitomi seemed to be know of this Yukichan before this meeting. The other two however seemed to have only recently met Hitomi like Cassie. Well, she was sure Hitomi was going to explain everything soon enough. That's why she had them all gathered here tonight for right?
The redhaired girl introduced herself as Lily in an elegant manner. She curtsied rather gracefully like she had seen quite a few times on TV. It was quite rare for someone to introduce them self with a curtsy. Cassie wondered if Lily was from a rich family that demanded her to act like a 'proper lady'. She'd never seen a scenario like that in real life but she was not well acquainted with any rich kid. Aah, she was making herself nervous.
"Nice to meet you Lily..." Cassie replied. "My name is Cassie. Yes I'm one of the people Hitomi had asked help from."
Yuki Tomoko
So these were the three girls who Hitomi had found for “help”, the one closest to Yuki was Cassie who had brown hair and wore glasses. In addition to her was someone else whose facial features Yuki couldn't see clearly except that her hair was brown and was wearing a pair of glasses, standing slightly to her was a redhead whose courteous greeting and graceful manners meant she was probably from a rich or influential family.
Bowing politely Yuki cheerfully replied“ I'm called Yuki and it's a pleasure to meet you Cassie, Lily...”Addressing the unnamed third girl “and Miss... ?”
Leto Wright
"Leto. Nice to meet you also."Bowing politely Yuki cheerfully replied“ I'm called Yuki and it's a pleasure to meet you Cassie, Lily...”Addressing the unnamed third girl “and Miss... ?”
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