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[May 31] [Suikoden III] Marked
Title: Marked
Day/Theme: May 31, 2010 "The ashes of what you once were"
Series: Suikoden III (personal project...)
Character/Pairing: Annie & Erika
Rating: PG
Etc: Two months in a row is tough going! See you all later!
"Annie, I thoughtcha told us to keep the mirrors all wrapped up and hid," her sister said, swinging her feet back and forth as she watched the older girl dig through the drawers, unsettling all of her neatly packed winter clothes to pull out a hand mirror wrapped in a dish towel. It had belonged to their mother.
"I know, I know. And you did a real good job of following my instructions, so thanks. But now I've gotta take just one of them and bring it to Erika." Annie haphazardly folded up the towel and flattened down the clothes she had disturbed. She tucked the mirror under her arm and went off to hide it with her things until later, when she would have a chance to pass it on to Erika.
*****
"Here you go. You're not going to do anything stupid now, are you?"
Erika took the mirror eagerly, but was less quick to actually look into it. "Of course not. I'm not happy, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid all of a sudden. I won't say anything about burning the place again, but no matter what, I don't want to stay there anymore."
"I'm sure no one will mind if you stay at our house until this mess gets cleaned up." Annie shrugged. These weren't the sort of circumstances to quibble over living arrangements in. No one was likely to be anything but sympathetic toward Erika anyway. Annie was getting to know her better than before the quarantine, and, frankly, she thought the older girl was kind of brusque and annoying (but she certainly couldn't say so).
"Well...I was thinking I'd just sell the whole place- the house and the shop. If there's anyone who would even buy them, that is." It was a reasonable outcome to aim for. Annie would have to agree with that. Now Erika dropped her brown eyes to look into the mirror. She didn't gasp or anything as Annie might have expected, but only tipped the hand mirror this way and that, carefully studying her own altered features.
Her hair was as she knew it, and her eyes. The form of her face, her lips and nose and ears, were all the same. The geography had not been reconfigured. It was more a change of terrain. One cheek, more than the other, was marked by the pock-like scars of her illness. The scars were distinct and unusual. She had never seen such things before the outbreak on Viela. The closest she had come was with a group of lepers she had once chanced to glimpse from a distance while traveling home from a party in Crona. Lepers were prohibited from walking the official roads.
She gave the mirror back to Annie, after minutes that felt like years. She had seen now and had no reason to see anymore.
Day/Theme: May 31, 2010 "The ashes of what you once were"
Series: Suikoden III (personal project...)
Character/Pairing: Annie & Erika
Rating: PG
Etc: Two months in a row is tough going! See you all later!
"Annie, I thoughtcha told us to keep the mirrors all wrapped up and hid," her sister said, swinging her feet back and forth as she watched the older girl dig through the drawers, unsettling all of her neatly packed winter clothes to pull out a hand mirror wrapped in a dish towel. It had belonged to their mother.
"I know, I know. And you did a real good job of following my instructions, so thanks. But now I've gotta take just one of them and bring it to Erika." Annie haphazardly folded up the towel and flattened down the clothes she had disturbed. She tucked the mirror under her arm and went off to hide it with her things until later, when she would have a chance to pass it on to Erika.
*****
"Here you go. You're not going to do anything stupid now, are you?"
Erika took the mirror eagerly, but was less quick to actually look into it. "Of course not. I'm not happy, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid all of a sudden. I won't say anything about burning the place again, but no matter what, I don't want to stay there anymore."
"I'm sure no one will mind if you stay at our house until this mess gets cleaned up." Annie shrugged. These weren't the sort of circumstances to quibble over living arrangements in. No one was likely to be anything but sympathetic toward Erika anyway. Annie was getting to know her better than before the quarantine, and, frankly, she thought the older girl was kind of brusque and annoying (but she certainly couldn't say so).
"Well...I was thinking I'd just sell the whole place- the house and the shop. If there's anyone who would even buy them, that is." It was a reasonable outcome to aim for. Annie would have to agree with that. Now Erika dropped her brown eyes to look into the mirror. She didn't gasp or anything as Annie might have expected, but only tipped the hand mirror this way and that, carefully studying her own altered features.
Her hair was as she knew it, and her eyes. The form of her face, her lips and nose and ears, were all the same. The geography had not been reconfigured. It was more a change of terrain. One cheek, more than the other, was marked by the pock-like scars of her illness. The scars were distinct and unusual. She had never seen such things before the outbreak on Viela. The closest she had come was with a group of lepers she had once chanced to glimpse from a distance while traveling home from a party in Crona. Lepers were prohibited from walking the official roads.
She gave the mirror back to Annie, after minutes that felt like years. She had seen now and had no reason to see anymore.