Jada draped her hands through her long brown hair, starting to braid it. Why on earth had she agreed to come here? Vivi might get hurt! When their parents died, Jada had made a solemn oath to protect her sister at all costs.

"Jada!" There was the fifteen year old now. Jada looked at the girl bouncing around in the doorway. Just then, Vivi gave a sideways look out in the hallway, as if listening to someone. "Oh, nevermind!" And the young teen darted off.

Jada smiled, shaking her head. Even at fifteen, the girl didn't act a day over eight sometimes. Jada had to grow up fast so Vivi didn't have to.

The eighteen year old got back to braiding her far-too-straight hair. She examined herself in the mirror. Brown hair, blue eyes, scowl; she wished she were different. She hated her hair. Too straight. She hated her eyes. Lightning blue made people stare. She hated her scowl. She was too stubborn and protective to be happy. It made her sad to see herself so . . . Angry.

She noticed a tear escape the corner of her eye and she wiped it away furiously. Quit being such a baby, She told herself, you're doing it for Vivi. Her pep talk didn't help much, but she seemed to stop to tears.

Returning to her hair, she realized she didn't bring any hair elastics. Groaning, she got up from her stool in front of the mirror and walked into Vivi's room. Vivi always had elastics on her. She desperately wished Vivi bunked with her, but it was fine. The monastery was safe.

She knocked on the door, expecting to hear the shuffling of feet and then see a familiar brunette staring up at her with hazel eyes. Instead, there was silence. She knocked again. "Viiiiiiviiiiiii?" She asked, opening the door. No one was inside. Peering around, Jada noticed it looked fairly clean, so Vivi was most likely not kidnapped. Good, she's probably in another room, Jada concluded, stepped into the room. She noticed on the dresser was Vivi's tiny box of hair elastics. Opening it, she pulled one out of the hundred that were there. She secured her hair with the blue elastic and started to leave, until a glint of light caught the teen's eye.

She looked both ways and went over to the window. Then, she was face to face with a woman floating in the air.