Summoners of Escaflowne
Hitomi Kanzaki sighed as she walked towards the train station, she'd been home for almost a year and a half now, and yet she still didn't feel right on the Mystic Moon. Funny, she never seemed to call it Earth anymore, not since he trip to Gaia. Her older cousin Minato walked beside her, she was the same height as Hitomi was, and looked a little bit younger. She wasn't her real cousin, just someone her grandmother had taken in off the streets when she'd been a young child.
"Hitomi, you're awfully silent today," Minato said to her. Hitomi merely nodded her hand in her purse brushed over the soft tip of a white feather, Van's. Minato stopped and looked at her worriedly, she'd never been the same since she'd disappeared a year ago.
"Hitomi you can tell me anything you know that," Minato said looking at her cousin's face.
"Oh, Minato, I can't, not this…it just seems so impossible," Hitomi replied very quietly.
"Nothing is impossible Hitomi, grandmother should have taught you at least that," Minato said softly. Hitomi smiled, that was one of the many things that the two girls shared, their grandmother had taught them both, and they both believed in what they'd been taught.
"I know, maybe I will tell you, when I get the courage to," Hitomi said quietly.
Meanwhile on Gaia…
"Lord Van!" a cheery voice yelled as a young cat girl ran into the throne room, her mouth pouting when she'd seen it empty, where was Van? She wondered. Van sat on the roof of his castle, he'd heard Merle's calls but had decided not to answer him. He was alone, the only one left in his family. He'd lost Hitomi too, at least Allen had found his sister. His own sister had been spirited away when they were about 4 or 5 cycles (years) old. He shut his eyes and sighed.
"Hitomi…please come back to me soon," he whispered, the pendant he wore around his neck glowed for a brief moment. He looked up at the Mystic Moon and prayed that his love would come back to him soon, and safely. He'd lost both his parents at a young age, Folken had died in the battle against Ziabach only a cycle ago. His sister, she'd vanished into no where during a visit to the Kingdom of Austuria. Now…Merle and Hitomi was all he had left keeping him going.