~-~-~ Spire City, Phoenicia ~-~-~
Shuichi was sitting behind his desk, putting his notes and books carefully in his white suitcase. The class was empty and clean, because Shui spend the last hour cleaning it after the students experimented with the transformation and conversation of cores. It was quite a mess, as most of the students weren't prepared for the practical test Shuichi gave.
"And I was sure that I explained everything so thoroughly. Maybe must I go more in depth.." He thought when packing the last statue that he transmuted, and closed his suitcase.
At that moment a young female student came to him, she was eight years old, but Shuichi wasn't sure.
- "Erm.. Master Yoshi?" The girl asked a little ashamed.
The man in a long and light brown coat, that one could say it was white stood up from his chair, and shoved it under the desk and turned towards the girl with a awaiting look.
A few seconds passed before the girl realized that she should say something.
- "Master Yoshi? I'm ... a little confused about the things you taught us the last weeks. You was explaining-"
Shuichi cut into her.
- "-too bluntly, I know my girl, I'll explain everything in more details next time we have a lesson! Oh, be prepared to learn all those infrastructure cores from heart! Ophinis, Zachnisis, Duxchnis!" He said it with a delighted voice remembering all the things he had to learn in the past.
- "No, no! Master, please that's not it!" The girl quickly cried when Shuichi was passing her walking towards the door. He stopped and turned in reaction, with a bright but surprised face.
- "Master Yoshi, the things you explained to us were TOO complicated, I got everything when you explained how the cores reacted with other parts of their structure, but then you began to tell more and more stuff! I couldn't follow it at all!" The girl said it holding her hands tight in front of her. She looked at her master, and startled a bit, quickly bowing and saying - "I'm very sorry master!" apparently just now realizing how blunt her statement was.
But since Shuichi had finally some free in a long time and he was feeling good today he answered totally opposite of what would be expected of him.
"Lack of detail? Is that what you expect of my teachings? You think that explaining only the basics is enough?" Shuichi sighted. - "Very well then. If you'll come to me after class next time I'll have the honour to teach you and your friends, I'll explain things less thoroughly.. as one could say." He chuckled a little from his own joke, and turned to the again bowing student saying thank you a few times.
- "Don't forget to lock the classroom." He said when he was outside and pointed at his desk, where a bunch of keys lay.
- "Eh.. Yes master! I won't disappoint you!" She took the keys, and wanted to bow once more but Shuichi was already gone, leaving her alone in the room.
"Nice kids are those" He though walking the building out. "A little young to teach maybe.. but hey, maybe it's better that way." He made a tired face now. "But sometimes I feel as if they do not grasp my explanations!"
He sighed loudly and raised his head a little, and saw three kids giggling in front wall of the school.
"What can those do at school after school time I wonder.." Shuichi asked himself, and quietly sneaked up behind the kids. When he stood behind them a huge sadistic grin appeared on his face. In front of him three kids were laughing and writing some runes on the walls, in which names and little drawings of themselves had been craved. A kid put his hand on a rune that he just made and an another text was cut into the wall. "Willy 4 ever" it said.
He put his hands on two shoulders of two children, and they flew into the air like cats when they gets scared and screamed like seeing a ghost. When the three of the kids turned, fear and desperation fell on their faces.
Shuichi could see them properly now. These were HIS students, one of the few who "managed" in his lessons, two boys and one girl. The younger boy brunet and smaller than the other boy and the same age of the girl who was gold haired blond and ten years old. The other student was also blond, and he was eleven, he was also halve a head bigger than his friends. They all had huge crystals in their foreheads.
- "Well, well, well. What do we have here? Students trying to find the border of my patience maybe? I want to say that I'm disappointed in you, but I'm not, noticing the fact that I expected this of you, mr. Walker, Junes and lady Angela." He was saying all with a kind voice, but his eyes were burning with will to punish the kids.
- "Ma-master Naga-ayoshi... we didn't expect you to be here.." The older boy responded, the one that Shuichi looked at when saying "Junes".
Shuichi smile became brighter. "Well of course you didn't, otherwise you wouldn't be doing this here? Or are you implying that you would still do this even if you knew I would come?" His eyes were glowing with satisfaction.
- "Never! Never master!" The girl answered fast. "We only.."
- "Were "stupid". Is "stupid" the word you seek?"
- "Not at all master, we didn't expect you to still be on school!" The younger boy joined their explanation with an eager voice.
Shuichi raised a eyebrow, and then began to grin. He took a pencil from one of the boys, and wrote something on the wall, he touched the runic text while turning towards the kids back, the wall changed back to its original form. Almost however, if one would look with a very sharp eye, or just be experienced with runes he would be able to see something in the small bulbs in the wall. "Shuichi fixed this wall" to be exact.
- "Now lets think of a proper punishment, hmm?" Said Shuichi ignoring the fact that the children were tilting their bodies to see what Shuichi did to the wall. "I know!" He slammed his fist into his open hand.
He walked a little forward, and pulled the girl by her hand. "Follow me!"
After some minutes they found not far from school a small field. It was covered with white solid brick stones. Shuichi faced the students as they walked on it.
- "I have created this just for such a occasion. As you may remember or not, during the beginning of your training you were taught how to change solid with rocks who were already transmuted for some part, this made the runes that you had to write shorter and easier, a great thing for starters, and created by me." He paused to underline the fact that he created it and continued as follow "Now I have made this whole area out of these stones, so if you will transmute these you will see that it will take much less work than in our classes."
The older boy smirked a little to loud.
- "What is it Junes?"
The boy was startled a little by the reaction of the teacher on his smirk, and started slowly.
- "Well.. Master we are good in these things, so we don't need this help.."
- "Good?! I can't see that in your grades, but you'll be thankful later... Because you must make me wet with water or let me trip!
The children looked at their master with a strange look.
- "Come on! Don't be afraid!" Shuichi encouraged them enthusiastically.
- "Alright.. let's do this then.." The smallest guy took out a piece of charcoal out of his pocket and sat on his knees down and began writing runes down. The other two followed his example.
Shuichi looked a little disappointed, and walked to the younger boy, who was concentrating himself on the runes.
-"A little complicated, hmm?" Shuichi said to the boy, and as he looked up Shuichi erased his runes by trapping the charcoal of the ground.
-"Whaa-aaat!?" The kid yelled at his ruined runes. "Why did you do that for?!"
- “If I challenge you, that means we are in a fight, and don't think I'll wait for your runes!”
Saying that Shuichi kicked the kid a little back, but he fell pretty hard. "Ouch!"
- "Show me you're no weakling!"
The boy stood up and pushed Shuichi, but he simply stepped away, and pulled the boy at his clothes and let him fall once again, the other boy made slide aimed at Shui's legs to make him trip but Shui caught the boy at his legs, raised him, and released him. "AAAA! Master!!" The boy yelled before he hit the brick.
- "I got the water!" The girl yelled when she completed her water creating rune, but when she activated it, a ball of water appeared in front of her and fell almost immediately only making a small pool water.
- "You won't defeat me with this! The morale of this training is team work!"
The girl rushed at Shuchi, and the moment before she wanted to kick him, the boys bull tackled him from behind. Shui made a salto backwards making the friends dash into each other, but they quickly stood again determined to defeat their master.
Junes rushed with his fist at Shuichi, who caught his fist, then the other boy jumped on his shoulders and made tried to punch him but Shui responded the same way as before. Then the girl pushed the two standing boys making them fall on Shuichi, who almost fell losing his balance, but managed to take the boys and turn toward the earth and make them fall instead. With this motion he also kicked the girl away.
"Neee~!!! Master th-th-that huuuuuurt!!!” The girl began to cry. Shuichi sighted, and the two other boys ran towards the girl. "This a fight Angela.. you can't cry if I only do THAT!"
The girl sniffed a few times, and the group looked angrily at Shuichi, who stepped away a little. They stood in a circle and began to plan how to defeat Shuichi.
"Oi, you can't discuss like that! I'm still here!" Shuichi whispered when he suddenly stood just next to them. From surprise they all jumped back, and Shuichi pointed at the ground, and the kids looked at it slowly…
A rune was drawn on the earth, and Shuichi's leg was on it and activated the rune…
At that moment spikes came out from the earth around him, the boys managed to evade them, but Angela tripped and.. *Flash*
One of the rocks grew right into her face, Shuichi however made the rocks very fragile and they broke on impact, yet Angela was stunned of the sudden realization that she could died just a second ago.
The boys dashed at Shuichi as if trying to avenge her. Junes made a jump kick and Shuichi caught his leg and used him as a sword to bash walker away, and threw him at Angela. Walker stood up in one motion with falling, and kicked Shuchi in his legs, Shuchi made a dangerous move almost falling, but he jumped on his arms and stood up again, pushing Walker away, but before he could complete that, something pulled him away. A spike.. just like his. He looked at the Junes and Angela, who together copied his rune, smiling brightly pointing at the spike. Shuichi looked at the spike and saw Walker jumping from it at his head.
He fell in his face and held it strongly, while the other kids were drawing more runes. Shuichi bashed his head against the side of the spike, and the boy fell of. He turned towards the others and drew something making a crack in the ground were they were a while ago but only the rune was remaining there.. he turned and three kids were sitting in front of a circle full of runes and forced all with both their hands their energy into the rune. The place rumbled, and from the kids to Shuichi the earth lowered making a huge two metered deep hole.
- "Smart.. smart it is.."
He stood near a wall and across the hole they were running now at him. He took a piece of charcoal out of pocket with his left hand and was writing something behind his back, to Angela looking as if he was just standing because she ran way faster than the boys. When she was just about to attack him, he quickly moved away activating his rune. "WATCH OUT ANGELA!" Junes yelled, but Angela saw it already, at what she was running with full speed, a spike that was growing in her direction. She closed her eyes and punched it with both her hands away from her, at Shuichi. It broke immediately and the pieces flew at Shui's face. He to cover it, which made him open and Junes punched him in his side. "Great Angela, don't repeat a mistake, but use it against your enemy!" He yelled while kicking Junes away, and caught Angela at her legs, throwing them out, making her spin out of the hole. A loud "ouch!" was heard, but Shuichi was already attacked by Junes. Junes attacked with his right hand, but Shui quickly pushed it away with his, and had his left open at Junes and tried to punch him in the face, Junes however quickly ducked, and headbutted into Shuichi's belly, who pushed him away with his leg, and turned looking for Walker.
Walker was sitting writing a spike rune as quickly as he could, but he was alone which made it hard. Shui dashed at him, and tried to kick him in his movement, but Walker simply rolled around Shuichi, and when Shuichi had outrun him and the rune, and turned he quickly activated the rune, even though it wasn't completed yet and jumped back pretty far, expecting something to explode. His expectation came true, and Shuichi was about to jump back too, but he saw Junes rushing right at him, and the rune. So he stepped forwards, over the rune, and pushed Junes away from it, and it exploded. The earth on which the rune was placed exploded right into Shuichi's belly.
-"AH! You IDIOT! I taught you NEVER to activate uncompleted runes, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN OR WHO YOU WILL HURT!" He angrily faced Walker, but he didn't hear him.
He was dashing at Shuichi, and the only thing in his mind was defeating his master. “Showing him that he's not someone to played with!” He ran at Shuichi and wanted to hit him in the belly who was still hurt because of the explosion. "Damn you!" Shuichi yelled, and caught Walkers right arm with his, and pulled him to himself. As Walkers hand was sliding next to Shuichi, he drew with his left arm runes on it, and then caught him at the shoulder. "This rune is incomplete.. want to know what will happen when I'll activate it?" Shuichi whispered, and Walkers eyes were fixed on his arm held by Shuichi, trying to push himself away. Everything froze and stopped moving. Angela who was on the side of the hole with wide eyes, and Junes was sitting and looking carefully at Shuichi, who had just saved his life pushing him away from the explosion. "If I wouldn't interfere... you may have hurt Junes, but you didn't care what would happen right? Well we'll see. Sometimes inactive runes don't do anything… or sometimes they explode or transmute their surrounding dramatically…" Now Walker was looking with deep eyes at Shuichi's face, filled with fear. "We'll see."
Shuichi activated the rune, and Walkers arm began to shine blue. Junes gasped, and Angela screamed. Walker yelled in fear, pushing himself away from Shuichi holding his arm.
Nothing happened.
Walker fell on his knees trembling. "This is what happens when someone will play with runes." Shuichi said coldly. "I know what I do, but you don't." He took Walker and put him out of the hole. He turned towards Junes wanting to say that "it's only us two" but Junes had already a rune created. A water rune that is. Activating it, quite allot water began to flow from the rune. Because it was a hole the water would spread itself quickly and Shuichi would be wet in a matter of seconds. Would.
"Too bad I can also use the fact that this is easy material Junes." And he completed writing something on the wall what he started just before the clash. The water began to come close to Shuichi as the whole area which used to be pulled downwards, was pushed upwards ten meters in the sky. The speed with which this happened blew the water away, and Shuichi was standing in front of Junes on a ten meter height platform.
Junes was looking at Shuichi with unsure look.
-"Master, why are you doing this?"
-"Why? Why you ask? You shouldn't play around with runes. Runes are serious business. It isn't fun at all, just like falling from this platform."
Junes looked confused, but he soon found out what Shuichi was meaning, as he walked towards him slowly.. and unexpectedly kicked him the belly.
Everything happened fast. Junes was pushed backwards and fell of the border, yelling his lungs out. His two comrades drew their runes with great speed like never before. A few thin bars appeared out of the wall of the arisen ground, and Junes fell through them slowing himself down, however getting hurt pretty badly.
-"Still alive down there?" Shuichi's voice came from above. "Maybe we should call it even... or should I say my victory?"
-"N-not yet!" Junes cried from below, because his back hurt him really bad now.
"We'll defeat you for sure!"
Shuichi grinned. These kids were really eager to beat him back. Oh well, he had no plans for the moment so he didn't mind extending their punishment a little longer.
He jumped off the platform on the other side, and sneaked once again up to the kids. There they were again discussing their plans.
"I though they learned..." Shuichi complained to himself.
There he stood behind them again. "Hey guys.. didn't I say not to repeat your mistakes-"
- "-but to use them at your enemy!" The kids continued, and Junes and Angela jumped back, so did Shuichi due his reflexes, but Walker stood still, and pointed at the ground.
There was a rune drawn… an pretty complicated one as one may say. Complicated for students that is.
Four walls of two meters height grew from the earth and surrounded Shuichi, sealing him and Walker in a sort of a room without a roof, because the other two ran away.
- "I'll better follow them after I'll finish you, eh?" Shuichi smiled at Walker.
- "Not if things depend on ME!" He pointed enthusiastically at himself and dashed once more at Shuichi. Shuichi was prepared for an attack in his waist height, but the kid instead of tackling him, just run between his legs. Shuichi turned confused, and Walker ran up to the wall, and took out a crayon from his pocket and began to scrabble something on the wall.
-"I won't let you!" And Shuichi tried to grab Walker, but he slipped once more beneath him away, and smirked triumphfully. On the wall was written: "Catch us if you can masty!" Beneath it there was a drawing of a rabbit. When Shuichi stopped reading the boy was already over the wall.
Sight.
Shuichi Sighted.
- "I guess these kids... oh well, I'll just finish them." Shuichi hated seek and catches. He noted a rune down on the wall, a decomposition rune actually, and the wall broke down.
"!!"
Shuichi tried to jump away when he saw the weird way the wall was falling apart. It was too late. It happened.
Behind the apparently very thin wall, an another thin wall was transmuted, and in between, it was filled with water. So when Shuichi broke the first one down, the water fell on him. Not entirely but he got wet, and that meant that he lost. The second wall broke, and revealed three drowned bright smiling kids.
Shuichi didn't knew what to say at first but then he began to laugh loudly.
- "Hahahaah! I NEVER expected you to actually succeed, and be sure that this victory will be written down as a good note!" He wept some water of his face, and came closer to the kids and kneeled down.
"But the lesson I wanted to teach you... was to never use runes just for fun, will you promise me that?"
The kids didn't answer for a while looking at each other, but then raised their hands as a sign of a promise. "We will never ever again master Yoshi!"
"Perfect! Then you are all dismissed!" Shuichi raised his hand back too.
"I'll have to clean this mess..."
He sighted loudly again today, turned, and took out a piece of pergament from his pocket with pre-written runes...
~~Later~~
Shuichi was galloping on his horse to visit his friend Reigratto. When he had some time free, he rode around the island helping people joining talks, joining funs. He was better known in the area near the school, because he spent allot of time near there. He was treated kindly since he was always ready to help, and could perform some significant things with his knowledge of runes. He also spend allot of his time experimenting around the island, and was a interesting topic around children, who were easy amused, and a hero among ladies for his looks.
Some women smiled and waved to him, and he raised one hand, but didn't look at her. "I wonder how Reigratto is doing..."
Teaching those kids reminded him of his home, and the place where he learned using runes properly. When he was poor and he created coins with runes in them, yea that were the times…
~~Shuichi - 8 years old~~
The sun shone hot on Shuichi's back, and he was pushed around by bigger people who were walking in the opposite direction that he did. The small roads of the city were crowded, and all kinds of shops were placed on the sides in between the houses. Sometimes someone was selling something in small cars or on a small table at the side of the road, or they were showing something like dancing with snakes, or drawing something. Even if Shuichi would care about it he wouldn't be able to come closer and see it, because they were usually surrounded thickly by people clapping every now and often when the show stopped. But Shuichi didn't really bother with these things, he thought that art is a waste of time, the whole world was based on Mathematics, and everything was exact, and not vague and weird like the people on the sides of the streets.
There was no place in the city for a small and weak boy, even if he knew some tricks he would call "transmutation" but the older people called it "rune casting" or "rune magic". Whatever it was, it made the people evade him, and respect him more. He however used it to play, and to "receive". He decided some years ago when he was abandoned and could not find work that he would become a "receiver". He would receive anything he wanted from people and people would listen to him. Things didn't go out as great as he expected and people caught him and hurt him calling him a "thief" whatever that could be.
However these runes helped him in playing the game with the bigger people. He was respected by people a little older than him, but the people who he used where usually mad, and chased him when they saw him. Shuichi began to feel a little hungry, so it was time to "receive" some food. He could smell the smell of fresh made breed, and saw through the clouds of big people a small sign with a bread drawn on it, a bakery it was.
He slowly entered the shop after he had pushed himself through the hordes of people who were staring in front of a yet another show of art. The shop was pretty small but wide, and in the desk was close to the door. The door was on the left side, and on the right of the shop two chairs were standing, with one sleeping old man sitting on one of them. Only he and the baker himself doing something behind the desk having his back to Shuichi and the man were in the shop. Great.
The baker was a little fat for as far Shuichi could see, and he walked up to the desk and his head was a little above it and started: - "Good sir, can I have a bread?" The man turned and was indeed a little overweight. He had a large moustache and a beard, black hair and small eyes couldn't almost be seen because of his great eyebrows. He looked really nice, and Shui regretted that he had to receive from this man.
- "One bread?" The man laughed a little with a very low but sympathetic voice.
- "What kind of "one bread" do you want?"
- "The one that you just made, the one I can smell."
The man looked for a while at Shuichi, but Shui couldn't see what he was thinking because of his thick haired face, and then turned went futher in the shop, and after a while returned with a thick bread and handed it over to Shuichi. The desk was open on one side, so when Shuichi would flee the man would easily follow him, and even thought he was fat, he looked incredible strong.
- "That will be twelve cents then." The man looked carefully at Shuichi, who took out three coins of different sizes. When the man wanted to take them however Shuichi didn't let them go. "Wha-" The man started, but it was too late. Shuichi threw the coins and allot of smoke appeared. In the confusion the man jumped back, and Shuichi ran out of the shop. Outside he didn't rune however. He knew that the man wouldn't follow him, blocked by various weird things that blocked his door by now. He slowly walked away, and took a bite out of his bread...
~~
Shuichi arrived at Reigratto's place. It was a not big but not small building with the shop build into it. It was really nice to live there, and Reigratto lived quite happily. Shuichi always knew that his backing would come in fit one day. He stepped of the horse, and left it. It was not like anyone would steal a horse from Shuichi in this area anyway, and walked to the house. A very well done door was decorating Reigratto's house, and several silver looking objects made it even more pretty. Shuichi knocked two times on the door, and after a moment the door opened.
A short black haired woman wearing a apron was standing in front of Shuichi.
- "Oh, mister Nagayoshi! I didn't expect you to come! I was just cooking, and-" A nice woman, but always a little stressed. At least when Shuichi came, Reigratto swore the she wasn't like this normally.
- "Don't worry Marry. I won't stay long. If I will stay actually, is Reigratto available? And call me Shuichi, please." Shuichi smiled, but he had said that last line over a hundreds times to her.
- "Oh, yes! Of course! Come in, come in!"
When Shuichi walked inside he didn't even wait for her. He walked into the living room and saw what he expected. A demon looking man sitting in a purple robe reading a book in a huge and fine chair.
- "Good to see you again my friend."
The man rose his head, and a huge smile filled his face.
- "Very good indeed my former master."
"I told you not to call me that, it's very crumbling in front of... her." Shuichi pointed with his finger behind him, meaning Mary of course, Reigratto’s wife.
- "Well, what brings you here? You haven't visited us in some months, I though you had forgotten us." Reigratto said with a complaining voice.
- “You know me Rei, I have a busy life and I help lots of people whenever I can help people around me!”
Reigratto smiled.
- “Heh, I sure know, all kinds of rumours go around here about you. People tend to talk allot when buying cakes and pies.”
Shuichi bowed forwards smiling with a interested face but tried to answer with a on interested one, but he failed miserably.
- “Soo… what to these people say about me?”
He big grin flowed on Reigratto’s face.
- “WELL, the do you say you have quite some talent for being a rune master, and some even say you are very good looking too… (He meant Shuichi’s fan girls, as he had some around his age.) However some say that you ride too much around and that you should visit some old friends more often.”
Shuichi let him fall completely in his chair relaxing more this way.
- “Hey, it was YOUR idea to settle down in a far off the center place… like a little crowd is THAT bad.”
- “It isn’t my fault that you wanted to stay with that Indher person so badly. You really should get married too, then you would understand me. Or is this a way of coming closer to this person? Maybe you want Indher to be the lucky one?”
Shuichi blushed a little and sighted.
- “No, no, she’s only helping me with my research, that’s all. And I’m teaching these younglings, if I would go away they would miss a hell of allot, since I’m one of the very few on this island who actually knows runes properly… it would be a too big change for them so suddenly…”
And then something hit him. The thing he needed was so close! Of course, that was the answer!
He was drowned away in his flow of thoughts and only heard Reigratto talking half eared about something with “excuses”.
When Reigratto took out a huge cigar Shuichi stood up, and took it out of his hands before he ignited it.
- “You know that is bad for you. I really need to go now, I have lot’s of work to do!” He put the cigar into one of his pockets.
- “It seems that something crazy hit you again? It’s that isn’t it? I know that look in your eyes whenever it happens… well there’s nothing to do against it once it begins, I’m glad that I could be in help of something.”
Soon he stood outside in front of his horse holding some pies that Marry had handed him, even after he had rejected them. He heard a loud “Come back soon” and he departed swiftly. He was just about to finish his ace.
~~ Night ~~
It was black, the only source of light was the moon and some lanterns who were standing far off by the road. Shuichi walked further in to the park, to a place where he wouldn’t be seen. To a place where he could test his newest experiment. He made sure that no one would find him, by placing some anti discovery measures, and he walked towards a giant rock.
He took out with his left hand a small book, a note book, and pulled his right hand out too. On his right hand he had a hand glove filled with all kinds of weird signs. These were however hard to see and the only good to see things were two circles filled with some signs in them in the hand palm and on the top of it.
He opened the book finding the intentioned page immediately, and touched with his two biggest fingers the page. Something shone shortly, but nothing more happened. He now took a deep breath, and touched with his right hand the rock. Immediately all kinds of sign appeared on it, and with the same speed the rock changed into a silver ball.
- “Great.”
He hid the book, and he had the same, or at least same looking glove in his left hand. He let the centers in his palms touch, and just like the glove took information from the book, his left hand took information from his right. He touched the now silver ball, and something began to shine red, and the ball was back to it’s original state, a round rock.
- “Now for the final test…”
He took both his hand in front of him, and touched the rock now. The light flashed and disappeared, if one had a good eye, he would see the rock changing into a ball and backwards constantly. In instance the rock disappeared. Something blue looking like gas was now floating in between his two palms. It was like fell mist, coloured dark blue.
He closed his palms and opened them again. The mist was gone, but the signs on his gloves seemed to shine… blue.
He could feel a great flow of joy coming, and put his hands into his pocket. There he felt something… it was long, and a little soft…
The cigar he took away from Reigratto.
He took it out and looked at it for a while. Then he put it into his mouth and lighted it.
- “I guess I deserve something sometimes too!”
~~ ~~ Apparently somewhere else ~~ ~~
Puco looked upwards at Sienna.
"Of course you are ready Senny! He's your BROTHER! If I had one I would play with him aaaaaa-aaaaaall the time!"
She stood up and raised her hands. "I would show him everything I saw, and I would be NEVER alone! And even if he did something suu-uuper mean to me, I wouldn't be mad, and I would forgive him anyway!
The fact the she was born alone and lived alone was very outstanding now. She turned to Sienna.
"Let's go and find him! It can't be far away can it?!"
