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Searching

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Where are you?

A young woman wanders, searching, like she has been for years. Searching for the most precious thing, the only reason she has to continue living in this world.

I've been looking so long, and I still can't find you.

She misses him so much; it kills her that she let him go. That she let him out of her sight. That she let him walk into someone else's arms. He's gone, he's been gone for so long, and it's all her fault.

I'm so sorry.

Her previous failures in this venture haunt her, push her forward. She must track him down, somehow. She has to. She has to hold him again. She has to tell him that she's sorry, she didn't abandon him, she wishes she hadn't let him go off on his own.

I miss you.

Is he living well? Do the ones who took him care for him, or do they regard him as a mere plaything; his life an easily broken toy in their hands? Is he sick? Is he…?

No!

She won't allow herself to think it. She can't. If she loses him, loses hope, she loses everything. Everything. She has to push on and keep searching.

I need to find you.

No matter what, she needs to. And she will. If it is the last thing she does. She will search until she dies, if need be.

I love you.

Anything for her beloved, vanished, precious little brother.

I'll see you soon...

Chitose.

{Owari}