wow... i this chapter is considerably shorter than the last chapter...
Luke! Your turn to do the honors!
Luke:…… what Lucielle said last chapter.
Lucielle: you're no fun -.-;;;;
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My name is Luke. No last name. I'm 13 years old, almost 14. I'm Ishballan, too, although my hair is some crazy color we think might just be purple, even. With dark purple around the bottom of my hair. I like my hair color. I'M NOT CHANGING IT.
I'm more Ishballan than my sister, seeing as I have the traditional Ishballan looks (red eyes, dark skin, etc.) while Lucielle takes after dad, an Amestiran. And we're twins. Don't ask how, but she's older than me. A fact that annoys me to no end. She should be the younger sister! She's too damn trusting! Brings strangers to the clinic all the time and trusts them immediately! We're too popular here. It's annoying. I think one time she brought a criminal who got a dog bite breaking into someone's house! He didn't steal anything, but you get the point!
And she did it again tonight. Brought home some stranger. Except this stranger wasn't a stranger. He was someone I had thought I'd never see again.
Someone who was from that time two years ago...
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Lucielle left fifteen minutes ago to get those plants. Wait, why did she go? I usually go. Huh. She's taking too long….
So I'm stuck here, manning the clinic until she gets back. I really wish I could just close up already. We should be able to trust to people to behave themselves, you know? Not kill themselves? Besides, they can just ring that contraption thingy I made that hit's the window just above Lucielle's bed. Can't make one for my room. It's in the back of the house.
I'm just about done fixing up the examination room. Some kids had messed with an angry dog. The bite on the little boy's leg hadn't been too deep, but there had been a lot of blood. But Lucielle had used that Xingese alchemy that she knew to fix up his leg a bit after dabbing it with that medicine we make ourselves. We just call it "Special stuff". It's a very good for cleaning up wounds and helping it heal & stuff.
There. Absolutely no trace of any blood or anything at all on or around the examination table. Lucielle is really serious when it comes to medical stuffs. I can see why, though. Huh.
I walk out of the examination room and into the main room of the clinic. Same old desk just sitting there in the middle of the room. Same three doors behind it. Same pharmacy room right across from where I'm currently standing. Same random chairs, same random magazines we got for no reason at all, and same bathrooms, too. The clinic wasn't really that much compared to those things in the city, but we can make do with what we have. We're saving up for an X-ray, though. Although it might be a while seeing as we don't have much money right now….. maybe I could go out and pick a fight… nah. Lucielle won't accept payment if it's my fault. Heh.
OOOhhhhhhhhkaaaaaaaayyyyyyy………….. wow. It's really getting boring now. I really wish I could go upstairs to my room and grab a book or something… or maybe get something from the kitchen upstairs too. But noooo-ooooo. No-can-do. Must have someone manning the clinic at all times when Lucielle isn't around. Nyeh…
Where the hell is Lucielle?! She's really been gone for a while! Knowing her, she'd just run out to the garden, get the stupid plants, and run right back. Ok, I don't care if she gets mad at me or not. I'm going to see if she's all right.
My jacket's sitting on one of those random mis-matching chairs. I grabbed it and went to push open the doors to go find that sister of mine…
…When the doors pull open to reveal Lucielle.
"Yeesh! What took you!? I wa—" but I'm cut off by the look on her face. "Hey, what's up? Nothing happened, right?" I know I'm wrong, though. It's that 'someone's-hurt-and-it's-my-civic-duty-to-help-them' look. Hoooooooooo boy.
I pulled the door open and stood behind them, as to let Lucielle gain her arms back to help the person in. Except she didn't. She went to open the other door. All I could think was "what?".
And then I saw the armor. The all-too-familiar armor.
And screamed.
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Ohkay!! I wasn't going to make it a cliffie here, but why not? Wahaha!! Im so evil!!... and by making a cliffie I make the chappie preeeettttyyyy short….. is it short? shrugs
Me:Ed, you can't say that I just insulted you. You weren't mentioned at all in this chappie.
Ed: why did you think I'd be insulted? Huh? HUH??
Al: …….. what did I do?
Me: s'ok, aru. U didn't do anything. However, apparently someone who looks a helluva lot like you did.
Al: …?
Ed: get on with the story!!
Ohkay, pplz. I've decided that for every new character I introduce, I make a picture of them. I have one of Lucielle on deviantart. I'm Fuzzlespup, kay? fuzzlespup./
…. I really think I did a crappy job on that pic…. She's not really that pale…. Nor is her hair that light ;;;
Be expecting a Luke pic soon! :3
-LP