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PLEASE READ BEFORE BEGINNING CHAPTER!

AN: Aaaand here's the second piece of what I was missing! It's more lighthearted than truly plot-related, but it served its purpose, I think.

Anyway, I hope you all like this and please remember to review, but if you've nothing polite to say then don't bother saying anything at all!


~A Match of Two Souls~

oO-Mokona the Troublesome-Oo

"This girl…" Presea sighed as Sierra replaced the damp cloth over Hikaru's forehead. "She's going to give me grey hairs before I'm old enough to have them!"

Caldina cackled. "That'll be a good look on ya, though!"

Sierra giggled as her sister glared at the dancer. "What possessed her to enter the Road of another?" she asked, soberly. "Never, not even in older texts have I ever found anyone entering the Road of someone else while looking for the Road to the Pillar!"

"I don't know," the Pharle shook her head. "But Hikaru…she can be just as perceptive as she is naïve. It's possible she had a reason and followed through with t—WAH!"

Sierra and Cladina blinked as Mokona appeared out of nowhere and tackled the swordsmith.

"MoKoNA!" Presea growled, a dark aura rising up around her. "What do you think you're doing, you white menace!"

"Puuu!" Mokona cooed innocently.

The Pharle's eyebrow twitched. She quashed the urge to throttle the little white being and walked calmly back to Hikaru, intent on giving her the next dosage of medicine.

'Huh,' Sierra thought, 'She usually gets more worked up around Mokona. I guess she's learning to ignore him.'

But just as Presea finished pouring a spoonful of lavender-hued liquid, Mokona struck.

"PUU-PUUUUU!" came Mokona's battle cry as he jumped up under Presea's hand, propelling it up and the spoon into her mouth.

Caldina and Sierra winced.

Unlike on earth where medcines could be found flavoured to mask the bitter taste of the drug, there was no such concept in Cephiro. Unless water or fruit was taken with a remedy, one would taste the bitterness of every herb and root used to concoct it.

Unfortunately for Presea, she had no fruit and whatever water was there in the room, was being used to tend Hikaru.

And so, the Pharle swallowed the liquid with a grimace.

"MOKONA!" she raged, giving chase behind the white ball of fluff.

'I stand corrected,' Sierra sweat-dropped.

Caldina had no compunctions and rolled on the floor with mirth.

No one saw the highly confused Ascot back out of the room, silently thinking that he would never understand women.


Adieu,

TsukiyoTenshi