Raine: No.
Yes. Come here.
Raine: No.
Don't make me sic Zelos on you!
Raine: -.- What do you want?
Disclaimer please.
Raine: -Sigh- She doesn't own Tales of Symphonia nor the characters. Just the right to torture us. -.-
Gee, thanks. Okay, this chapter is more of just a...beginning thing. To get you interested. Kind of like a prologue, but really just a fraction of a chapter to show you stuff. Heeeere we go!
And the new special thanks tradition appears...
Thank you, God, for my awesome talent. Man, I love writing... And Romance... Writing romance. Ahhh, good times. Thank you. n.n
Namco. We all know you guys are good.
And, my readers. My loverly readers. I'd be sitting in a cardboard box on Wall Street without your kind reviews and encouragement. Well... Okay, maybe not... I don't think I ever want to go to NY again... But I love ya'!
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The scratching of pen on paper filled and echoed in the rock crevice she'd managed to crawl into. Tears of mingled pain, desperation, and just dismal longing pricked at the corners of her eyes, but they didn't fall. It wasn't often that she cried...And she had other things to concentrate on right now. This had to be written. She had to do it, in hopes that he'd get it sometime. At least her concience would be clear...
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Here I am, in this cave, cold, wet, and hurt. And not to mention lost. I don't know if I'll get out of here, or where you are now. Or if you'll ever actually find me...Of course, I don't even know that you're even still looking for me. I'd like to think you are; it's comforting. I don't mind telling you, I'm scared.
I know now that I've been foolish, and if I have to die here, I want you to know a few things. I want to tell you what happened. How everything started...and turned out like this. But most of all, I want you to know that I love you, and that would never have changed.
You know, it's strange what sorts of things come to mind when in a rather dank hole in the side of a cliff. I'm siting here remeniscing on things I never would have given a second thought to before. I guess that's what happens when death is imminent. I know, I'm not supposed to think like that. But you try sticking yourself in a cave with what seems like every bone in your body being broken, shot through the middle with an arrow, and feeling as though you might faint any moment. Then we'll see if you don't feel the same as I do now. Yes. Yes, I know. You'd switch places with me in a minute...But I don't want you to. Because I'd be worried sick.
I've a story to tell you now. The story of how this came to be, and I hope you'll read it with the same dedication I use now, to remember and write it.
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She carefuly lifted the pen again before her body shuddered in pain, lest she ruin what she'd written so far. But it was told her by her fogging vision and fuzzy thoughts that she wouldn't get any further just then. Maybe she should rest...just a little. Just to rejuvinate her beaten body a little. Oh how she wished she could use her own talent - healing magic - on herself. But she was in no condition to cast now...And the mana just would not come at her call.
So she gave a cough, set down the materials, and made to lean back against the rock wall. Before she'd totally reached it, before her head was securely resting against it, blackness took her.
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Hmmmm. Interested yet? -Evil grin-
Raine: ...I'm disturbed and rather nervous, actually.
And I wasn't talking to you, Miss Negativity. Go back to doing my disclaimers. Any-who, keep watchin'! -Disappears in a puff of pink and blue smoke for no reason-