A Trip to Tatsumiya
Chapter 1
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Characters:Kazuki Makabe
Maya Toomi
Soushi Minashiro
Miriallia Haw
Pairings:Kazuki/Soushi
Miriallia/? (read on to find out)
Warnings: Not suitable for Dearka/Miriallia pairing supporters
22 December CE 74
8pm
This is really W-E-I-R-D. In just one morning, I attended a Terminal Executive Council meeting at the Yokohama HQ, and got told off by the Chief Executive Lacus Clyne for stretching myself too far, then got sent off for 2 weeks' paid leave, and then was told by my co-worker, Meyrin Hawke, that I have a twin in some island I've never heard of before! According to Meyrin, it's called Tatsumiya, and it's somewhere near Okinawa. I wonder what you'll do, Tolle, if you were told you ad a twin who was separated from you at birth, and your parents were foster parents?
Anyways, here I am, packing up. Packing light, however. It's an all-expenses covered trip. I wonder how it'll be like. Seriously, I hope nothing out of the blue happens. I'm going to be there for two weeks. Don't you worry, I'll still write.
Oh yeah, I've been writing to you since that day Athrun killed you. I know you don't want me to behold a grudge against him. I'm not. He's the one paying for this trip, after all.
Do appear in my dreams, like you've always done, won't you?
Love, Milly
23 December CE 74
12nn
I'm finally settling down here at a little boutique hotel in Tatsumiya. Actually, there's a few ryokans on Tatsumiya, but I prefer this, since, one, it's in the city centre, and two, I'm NOT PAYING! How great is that? Athrun kindly gave me the address of my twin sis' (according to him) place. And she's also in the military? Conscripted, I guess, just like us back in CE 70. Yeah, I guess so.
The place is quite out of the way, actually. Just to make things worse, there aren't many taxis here. This island relies mainly on a rail network running parallel to the coast-line. It's rather scenic. For a small island like Tatsumiya, it's amazing they have a rail system, even if it's only a light rail.
The rail journey from the airport took only 1 hour – the place really is small, given that the airport and city square are on the ends of the line! The ride really is scenic, and I wished you were here to see it. You can see the coast on one side, and the lush greenery on the other. It's beautiful. It's almost like the Yurikammome in Tokyo, only that you don't see much of the buildings, other than in the city area.
I really don't know how to start. Maybe I'll start by getting lunch. I took the morning flight from Tokyo here and I haven't had lunch! But where? I hope there's good food 'round here…
Love, Milly
23 December CE 74
11pm
Life sure is funny. Like why I'm writing you another letter so quickly. The day's not even passed yet, and I find myself writing again. This makes me wonder. Seriously, I think you've have replied me with the line "Because you're Milly!" If you were still alive, that is. If only. It seems God has his way when it comes to doing things. Out of nowhere, I bumped into the most unlikely of people… MY TWIN SISTER!
I was having lunch at some organic food shop somewhere in the city square (remember, I do follow the LOHAS – Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability thingy) when I bumped into her. Gosh, never expected this anyway. Her name's Maya Toomi. I asked her what she was doing here in the city, since she neither lived nor worked in the city area. She said that she was also having a break. I found out we shared one thing in common – we're probably rather carried away by work. And so we had lunch together, and practically spent the day together. We went to her place. The community she lives in is made up of former Fafner pilots. They've given way to a new generation, even as they don't want to, they must, for it is their only protection against the Festums. It is painful to pilot the Fafners, Maya told me, but they've got to.
A Fafner's a lighter version of a Mobile Suit. Maya took me to the Fafner hangar. There's not that many units left, and even lesser pilots from her generation. She said that she could even count them with one hand. The only ones able to pilot a Fafner right now (and therefore, trainers of the next generation), are her, Canon Memphis and Kenji Kondou. That makes three. There's also Sakura Kaname, who's in a coma and Kazuki Makabe, who's sight is critically impaired. Even with them, there's only five.
Maya lives with her mother, Kazuki and his father, the island's commander. This being that Maya's mum is also the area's doctor, and such, arranged it this way, so that she can take care of Kazuki. At night, Maya and I we had dinner then went back to the hotel together, since she wasn't exactly required at home for the night while her mum and Commander Makabe made preparations for the Christmas festival in her area.
Guess what we did? We drank! The hotel manager was quite surprised that we girls could drink so much. We practically cleared out the minibar. Anyway, I'm not paying. Since the hotel only had rooms for two – and I was paying the price of two for one – and the hotel manager allowed Maya in as well - I decided it would be fine for Maya and me to sleep on the same bed, right? I hope so… Tolle, tell me, somehow!
Gotta sleep soon, or else I'll look like a panda tomorrow?
As always,Love, Milly