Author's Note: Okay, so I have wanted to write a story for Final Fantasy 13 for practically forever. Now is my time to shine! Just kidding. :) Enjoy! Let me know what you think!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the OCs.

Warnings: Death

Word Count: 3,010

Status: Incomplete

She had a wish. Just one. One wish that she was born with. She wished for the safety and health of her people. She wished that they would all live long and prosperous lives. She wished for them salvation at the ends of their lives and peace within the chaos.

She was born with hair a dark silver and eyes the brightest jade.

Her birth was a mass celebration in the ancient- but at this point in it's life-new city of Paddra. A small child foretold with powers gifted by the goddess of Chaos, Etro. They deemed her a seeress, but didn't truly know what that entailed until five years after her birth. A small, five year old Yeul foretold of a forest fire tearing through the lands to the north, destroying miles of farmlands. In the years that followed, more and more visions let themselves be known. Visions of great tragedy and strife, and also great wonders.

The visions of the seeress became both feared and immortalized. Word of the power of the seeress traveled far and wide. People from all reaches of the world came to see this girl have visions of the future.

"Is there anything that you need, Seeress?" one of Yeul's many handmaidens asks, standing in the doorway to Yeul's bed chamber.

The young ten year old girl stares out over the darkening city. "No. I'm fine."

The handmaiden bows and leaves. Yeul stands there for a long time, a solemn look on her face until, she tilts her head to listen for any sounds of any of her handmaidens or guards coming to see her. When she's sure that they believe she has retired for the night, she walks over to her bed and pins her hair up, putting the veil over her mouth and slipping on her favorite yellow shoes.

She crawls out of the window and down the vines that crawl up the side of the castle. Months of practice honed her skills in escape. When Yeul gets t the ground, she pauses and listens to see if anyone has noticed that she was missing. No screams, no yells. No torches or mobs. They haven't noticed yet.

Yeul smiles to herself and sneaks into the city. It has fallen quiet as the occupants have mostly retired for the night. They have extinguished their lanterns at their doorsteps and closed the shutters to their homes. Keeping the warmth of the home in and the cold of the night out. Yeul's flesh mimics that of a goose's. She runs her hands up and down her arms to create friction.

Her heels clack against the stone street. Paddra is still just a small city that's surrounded by clusters of other cities. The greatest thing to have happened to Paddra was Yeul being born.

Time is still young. As is humanity. Yeul knows right off the bat that humanity is going to be around for a very long time.

Yeul wraps her arms around herself and walks toward the edge of the city and out into the open lands that surround Paddra. The city is still so small that one could easily walk from one side to the other in just under an hour. It's undergoing expansion since Yeul appeared. But Yeul ignores the skeletons of the new buildings to continue into the open lands. She makes a beeline for her favorite place in the world.

There was nothing extravagant or overly impressive by any means of the words. It's just a large collection of large rocks-boulders, if Yeul would dare. There was one that stretched upward, high into the sky, but in actuality it probably jutted upward about ten feet. Yeul takes her time in climbing all the way to the flat surface at the top, legs dangling over the side.

She tilts her head back and gazes at the stars, eyes lighting up in awe. Her face, normally composed and blank, shows it's true youth while staring up at the twinkling lights in the sky. Tomorrow was the night, she had foreseen a ball of light skirting across the sky. An impossibly large ball of fire that sailed through the small twinkling lights and disappeared beneath the horizon. Yeul had to hold herself back from trembling in excitement.

"I've seen you come out here every night for the past couple of weeks," a voice behind her says.

Yeul looks down to see a young boy looking up at her. "I'm sorry."

"No need," the boy says, climbing up the rocks. He almost falls once or twice before sitting next to the girl that quiet watched him all the while he did so. He plops down next to her and flashes her a pearly white toothed smile. He's a few years older than Yeul. "I'm Tobias. You?"

"I am Yeul," the young seeress says, her voice soft.

"Where do you come from?" Tobias asks, dangling his feet next to hers. Yeul can tell immediately that he's from a poorer family. His clothes are a little small on him and dirty. There is a hole in the pants on the left knee and one of the shoulders is ripped open. His skin is dirty too.

"Paddra."

Tobias glances at the small city. He jerks his chin towards it. "There?"

Yeul nods. "Yes. Where are you from?"

He points in front of them. "Nautini. My house at the edge there. See? It's the little hut."

Yeul looks toward where he's pointing. "The one with the caved in roof?" As soon as she said it, she regretted it. She forgets sometimes that she can be insensitive with her words. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to sound..." she trails off when Tobias lets out a laugh, seemingly not at all bothered by her words.

"Don't worry about it. It's not the most luxurious thing in the world, but it's home. I grew up in that house, I don't know any better, so it's cool." He flashes Yeul another bright smile.

She nods thoughtfully. "I see. What are you doing out here, Tobias?"

He looks over at her in the darkness, his eyes a dark brown. "I could ask you the same thing, Yeul. But as for myself, I came out to see the stars."

Yeul looks up at the lights. "Me too. There is no where good to really look up at them in Paddra."

"What about that big building on the other side?"

"The home of the Seeress?" Yeul asks.

He nods. "Can't you go onto the roof there?"

Yeul considers. "Perhaps, but the guards would find me up there in a bit and I wouldn't be able to see the stars to my hearts desire. They would certainly forbade me from going up there again."

Tobias nods slowly, Yeul gets the feeling that he doesn't quite understand. A sudden thought seem to occur to him, he turns to Yeul sharply. "Hey, you live in Paddra. I heard that there was a girl there called the Seeress. That big building is her home. People say she can see into the future, is it true?"

"The Seeress sees one form of the future," Yeul tells him.

"What do you mean?"

"Once the Seeress sees it and tells someone about it, steps can be taken to stop the event. Then the Seeress is giving a vision of the alternate future," Yeul says, looking at the dark haired boy next to her. His eyes are wide like saucers.

"Oh hey, did you hear about that band of thugs that go around stealing noble's hearts and selling them?"

Yeul shakes her head. She rarely hears about the outside world. The ruler thinks it's best that way. Best not to confuse her with so many places. She should only have the sight for Paddra.

"I hear that they sell them to rival nobles or something. Do you think the Seeress sees stuff like that?" Tobias asks.

Yeul shakes her head. "The Seeress has not seen something like that. But that doesn't mean anything. There are plenty of things that are not shown in a vision or could easily be missed."

Tobias practically bounces off his seat in excitement. "How do you know so much about the Seeress?"

Yeul's eyes lower slightly before going back up. "I am the Seeress."

Tobias looks at her for a long moment before he laughs, throwing his head back. The noise bounces off the darkened out buildings, before being swallowed by the darkness. Yeul just stares, perplexed.

Tobias chokes on his laugh when he realizes Yeul is just staring at him. "Are you serious?"

Yeul nods. "Yes. I was born with the eyes of the goddess Etro."

There is a long silence between them. Yeul moves to stand on the rock, overlooking the land. She looks at the darkness of the buildings, the tall grass. Even the monsters prowling around in the dark. It was nice, better in the day, but Yeul appreciates the silence that settles over the land and all the cities contrary to the day. But the light time is so beautiful and bright. Like the stars. Yeul really loved the stars.

"I should go. The guards will check on me soon, so I should get back."

"You... really are the Seeress...?" Tobias asks, standing too. His hand goes flying up to his throat. A beaded necklace is there. "But you look so normal."

Yeul nods. "Looks can be deceiving."

Tobias nods, making a face. "I guess they can. So... can I see you again, Seeress?"

Yeul looks up into his eyes, he's definitely taller and older than her. Probably by two or three years. Her eyes travel up to the stars above his head. "Most people can't just come and see the Seeress. But I will come back here again," she looks back into his eyes. "If you want to see me again and talk. I will come back."

Tobias smiles crookedly. "Promise?"

Yeul nods. "I can not lie."

"Another Seeress thing?"

Yeul shrugs. "All I know is that I don't. I am the first Seeress."

Tobias looks a bit awe struck. "Really? This is so cool. You're not just joking with me, are you? Are you positive that this isn't a trick?"

"No trick," Yeul says. "You may believe what you chose." With that, she makes her way down the layout of the rocks with deft precision. Tobias follows behind quietly, when they get to the bottom he looks at Yeul like he wants to say something. She considers whether she should ask him what he wants or just go. If it is important enough, he would ask.

Before she can make a decision, Tobias quietly asks, "Can you see certain things? Like what happened to people or something?"

Yeul pauses, staring at the older boy. "The visions come to me, I can not seek something out. I usually see something that affects the many over the few. Whoever the owner of the necklace that you've been touching for a while, I probably will see nothing that pertains to them."

Tobias visibly deflated. "I see."

Yeul turns and makes her way towards her home, pausing for a moment to look back over at Tobias. His head is down, the moon and stars casting a shadow across his face.

Hesitantly, Yeul turns back to Tobias. "I think that you should seek out your own answers instead of waiting for them to cross your path."

"I should do anything to get my answers?" Tobias asks, eyes downcast.

Yeul hesitates. "Anything you think you must."

"Anything I think I must," Tobias says to himself then smiles lightly this time. "Thank you, Seeress."

"Yeul," Yeul says, turning around to continue home. "It was the name I was born with. I want to be called it."

If Tobias had a response for that, Yeul didn't hear it. But that's okay. She didn't expect he would have an answer to that. She hasn't been alive very long but from the years that she has learned to read people. Is she wrong a lot? Yes, it's a process that she will have to learn better and even perfect. But that's what growing up is about.

Maturing.

Changing.

Finding one's self.

Following one's dreams.

Finding love.

Having a family.

Being happy.

Successful.

Achieved.

Yeul retraces her steps back into the city, through the quiet streets. Behind her house she can hear guards fighting off monsters. Yeul walks over to her window and climbs up the vines once more. It's definitely much harder going up then it is coming down. But Yeul makes the climb and when she gets to her room she's sweating and tired. She removes her hair clip and vail and goes straight to bed.

The next morning Yeul was informed by the ruler that two of the guards died the night prior. Yeul lit a candle for them at the service and prayed for them. She didn't know them but she was still sad about their deaths. People from all the towns surrounding came to the service, but only the people of Paddra were close enough to make out Yeul's features.

But Yeul's eyes were able to scan the crowd. She thought, maybe-just maybe, she would be able to catch a glimpse of Tobias, but if he was there he was too far away for her to see.

Yeul sits in the bath looking down at the murky water with a far away gaze. She taps her fingers against the surface in contemplation. She had to wonder if she was right in giving Tobias the advice that she did. She didn't really know the story behind the necklace. What if he got sick? Or hurt? What if something happened to him because of her advice?

Yeul chews on her bottom lip.

"I will be right back, Seeress," one of Yeul's many handmaidens says, bowing slightly before leaving the room. Yeul glances around the empty bathhouse for just a moment before returning to her thoughts.

Why was she the first ever Seeress? Why was she born with the gift to see the future? Did Yeul really believe in this Etro? A goddess of chaos. Yeul prayed to the goddess each and every day of her life, saw tragedy after tragedy. The timeline is constantly shifting and changing. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether or not she's doing any good with what she sees.

Every day of Yeul's life, for as long as she can remember, she has had visions of the future. Forest fires, bandit raids, flooding, so on and so forth. Then after they stop the events or best prepare for it, another vision comes to Yeul, the outcomes or other things that happen because of their actions. Sometimes they seem worse then the original, but it still offers the chance to correct the issue.

Yeul admires the water, it's a pretty purple color. Her favorite color. She runs her fingers gently over the surface, watching the water ripple across the large bath. A small smile crosses her face. It's the simple things in life that Yeul enjoyed the most.

Later that night, as for what has become routine for the young Seeress, she sneaks out of her room and through the sleeping city. Tonight was the night. She was going to see that ball of light. It's one thing to see flashes and images in her visions, but it's another to be able to see it in person. Yeul picks up her speed a bit and races to her special place. Tobias wasn't there but that didn't affect her good mood, she climbed up to the top and stared out over the stars.

Just as she had foreseen, the ball of light appeared and moved across the sky, far slower than in her vision but that only worked in her favor. Now Yeul could watch it in awe for longer. She unconsciously reaches up and touches the light fabric of her veil, eyes wide, excitement glimmering in those jade orbs. This is the best night of Yeul's life.

She wishes someone could have been beside her when she saw this. That thought made the edges of her lips tilt down a bit. But that isn't what Yeul wants to think about, she wants to admire the ball of light in the sky.

She blinks a few times to refocus her eyes. Her neck muscle get weak and her head falls back, eyes widening. This is the first time she's ever been alone while having a vision. The sign of the goddess Etro appear on her pupils and the vision flashes through her brain.

Screaming, crying. Just one person. They are being dragged down a corridor. By their hair. Her hair. Her dark gray hair. She's not strong enough to get the hand untangled from her long locks. There are people surrounding her. She's laying on a flat stone. Four people are holding her down. A man looks over her. He has a patch over his eye. A knife over her heart a single phrase.

"It will be worth it's weight in gold."

Yeul jolts out of the vision. She's laying strangely on the rock, the back of her head hurts from where it hit. There are dark spots in her vision. She can't move. She just had a vision.

It was of her death.

"So you must be the Seeress," a man says.

Trembling, Yeul slowly sits up. She looks down at the man below her rock. The first and only thing she noticed, was the eye patch over his left eye.