Amoro Revidi

Title: Tragedy [Prologue]
Series: Vision of Escaflowne
Rating: PG-13 for some angst
A/N: Not one of my happier fics here, but then I suppose it can't really be helped. I'm not too proficient with the angst department, so bear with me if this part is a bit stiff and formalized. It's also stylistically part of the prologue that the format comes across as being sort of like a police report or something.

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It really was a tragedy.

The car accident had killed three of the four passengers.

It was either a miracle or a sick twist of fate that the girl had survived. The forensics people couldn't figure out how she had managed to live until the ambulance had arrived… she had lost a lot of blood by the time the police arrived on the scene.

The curve in the road was always slick that time of year.

The Kanzaki family had been returning from a visit to the grave of the recently departed grandmother. It was 6:42 pm.

The government had been planning to refinish it for a long time.

The husband, Kazuko, wife, Yui, and son, Kennichi, were casualties in the crash. The car had skidded as it came into the bend, hitting the railing and collapsing around the passengers, trapping them within the car as it dangled on the edge of the bluff.

It was another hour before rescue workers got to the scene, and by then three of the passengers had died. She was the only one left.

The rocks are still stained a sick brown, a byproduct of the oil and blood that spilled down from the car as it hung suspended.

Just as they pulled her body from the wreckage the entire car combusted, spilled gas and blood alike going up in smoke.

It was suddenly on the top of the priority list.

It was her twenty first birthday.