A/N: The last guild, ladies and gentlemen - Crime Sorciere! The first character from them - our favorite angel: Sorano.
The skates clicked. Sorano, sightly shivering, started to move. She should have picked something warmer to wear - but once she began skating she could warm up. Fashion insisted sacrifices - and a style as unique as hers - required too much. Yet she would never change it. Not when her sister had recognized her in those clothes.
Her sister. Yukino was alive and well, waiting for her at another guild. Sorano could go back and meet her, restart the bond she thought to be lost forever. She could change, she could prove herself to be a great sister. She could, right? Her sins, no matter how severe, could be forgiven if she sought repentance. That's why she had entered Crime Sorciere - to beg for forgiveness she could never get from her victims. But asking it of someone alive, someone who knew everything she had done - how could she do that?
Sorano had begun skating, drawing endless circles in the icy mirror. No direction, no goal, no sense. She needed time on her own. Time where no one would tear her away from her thoughts. A little moment of serenity Sorano doubted she deserved - did the families and friends of all her victims get such chance?
She shivered. No matter how much she skated, she did not feel warmer. Then she should put something a bit more taxing than simple circles in her movements. Bolting in one direction with all power she could muster, Sorano jumped. There was no program in her movements, no intent. The cold bit every bit of her body. She had to warm herself.
The sun rays pierced the clouds. Every pile of snow burned with light, blinding Sorano. Like the angels, which she used to summon - their purifying light, meant to cleanse her sins. Sorano closed her eyes, taking a few short breaths. Even now a murderer could not look at the light.
How would she know she had redeemed herself? That question repeated in her mind, again and again, spinning like the circles she drew on the ice. Would she have to wait until every person she had hurt had forgiven her? Useless; Sorano could never forgive some of the things she had done. That's why she had given up on asking so long ago. As long as she helped people, it would balance her sins, right?
With Yukino, she did not have that luxury. With Yukino, she could not ask for some distant forgiveness in some future life. Sorano had to ask her little sister, to reveal every deep bit of darkness she had walked through. And if Yukino decided she could not be close to such a monster, Sorano would leave her. Forever.
