BUT YOU KNOW THIS
In Archades the weather was fine, but it was not as sultry as Rabanastre's, and Amaya felt perfectly at home ... even if that did not lend itself to being a holiday, but only a courtesy visit to a person's grave.
Amaya had gone to the grave of Judge Noah ... now buried under a different name and yet she did not know how to call it. It had become a habit for Amaya to go there to talk and expose all her thoughts and doubts.
-Here we are. You and me ... now everything has never changed in a year. It does not seem but it is so, there is no longer me to be your assistant and you to judge, nor the damn war.
I find it stupid that my whole life has changed and gone into pieces within three years, a moment you think you know who you are, then discover that everything is a lie and then you do not know which side you are and you find your foot in two shoes .
Nice memory you left me ... I can no longer stay here in Archades or even in Dalmasca, nothing more belongs to me, I can say free. I find it a big mistake to reveal myself to the world, I fear that they can use me ... but I exist, I am an individual, I have my will. What I want will have to count something?
I think I have given enough of my contribution in this peace, do not you think that now has the right to be free? ... to know who it really is?
I do not miss anything of the previous life maybe just something, I miss that idiot ... and maybe even a little you. I feel that this speech does not belong to me ... "
The young Amaya was said to herself as she stared at Noah's headstone, engraved with another name similar to another of her knowledge.
The visit to the cemetery lasted a few hours, in what had been a long morning for her, she planned to stop in Archades a few days, no more than two or three days, just long enough to visit a friend and the house of Noah.
The second stage that morning included a visit to an old friend who had not seen since the end of the war, he had left without giving so many explanations and he who had always seen in a certain way could not believe who had ahead after that he had learned from this the truth about him.
Brace could not wait to see Amaya, wanted to see how she had become, after a long time he imagined her very different from how he had met her. He had always been convinced that Amaya was different you could already see from his appearance, although the same tried to keep the brake and have a low profile.
The huma had received a letter from Amaya a few days ago, warning him of a possible visit, and this event had cheered up Brace, who was no longer waiting for his arrival.
The Archadian was waiting for her in a café, placed on a high building in the commercial area of the city, seated at a table, when he saw from a distance the statuary silhouette that clearly stood out among the crowds, it was Amaya.
Pure Amaya could not wait to meet her dear friend Brace again. Amaya had her hair gathered in one thing, a wide silk shirt tied with a bow next to her neck, while she wore a burgundy velvet waistcoat, with gold trimmings and embroidery, closed by a leather belt.
the trousers were also the same color as the waistcoat, while he wore high black boots a little above the knee, with a high heel, which slimmed even more the figure.
Brace saw himself facing another person, but when he saw her in front of him he realized that Amaya had never changed one iota, it was the same that he had known, the same appearance, the same way of dressing, but only one what seemed to him changed ... something in her.
-The time passes, but you do not seem to have changed ... - said the huma looking up staring into the eyes of the girl, who replaced a smile that illuminated his beautiful face in an instant.
-All changes ...- The splendid huma answered.
-You never loved the changes ... in fact you remained the same as when I met you. Only one thing seems to have changed you ... "Brace said, looking at her from head to toe.
-Thing!? - I ask the girl to burn the coat.
-Hai a different air ... even if you did not want, I know you have changed and it seems that there is something that disturbs you a little, maybe it's because you're here ...? - I ask the huma alluding to the past of Amaya.
But Amaya was not at all worried about her past and what Archades represented for her, she would call it all "Just a thing past". Something that had never existed for her, a pile of lies.
- For a past that does not exist .. and that until three years ago what I believed my life was nothing more than a lie, invented artfully to conceal who I am ...? - the young adventurer said in a tone to the irritation.
Brace shook his head, realizing that the girl had not digested everything that had happened and the strong anger she felt. I try to change the subject and find a less thorny topic than that.
-Amaya for the rest how are you? It's been a year ... you never showed up again, what happened? - asked the worried huma.
-Not wanted to take time to think about my life ... and what I am. -
-What did you decide? -Women Brace worried about her friend's future.
-Well ... I have lots of ideas, but I know what I do not want. I do not want to go back to my old life, it is no longer possible with the destruction of the chrysalis I can call myself free because "The Age of the stones" is over. A new one has opened up, it was where the humas decided their fate on their own.
I do not even want to be on the side of the Empire would be too dangerous and I do not center anything with them. So ...- He pulled Amaya's conclusions looking at Brace who had already figured out where her friend wanted to go.
-So ... if there is no future on both sides, would you like your "presumed old life as an adventurer"? - Brace asked the girl.
Amaya looked at the Archadian is nodded, Brace does not stop himself from laughing, selling that the girl still retains his wild and indomitable soul.
- You're not a princess, "you're a pirate"! - Brace added brazenly smiling at the girl asking then what to do.
"Now that you know what you want, when do you think you'll come back?"
-We also want immediately ... you know where I am now, start to be tight. -I flatter the adventurer.
- Always so firm ... the front door is always open. said the archadian, making his home available.
-Brace, I'm afraid they can come to you ...- the girl pointed out, but the Archadian, as far as he knew, had always kept a certain distance from Amaya's acquaintances, besides, he had little to do with them.
-Amaya ... I do not think they will come to me, on the other hand I and they do not have any kind of connection, so I think it's the last place to come looking for you. Then the house I'm in has always been your home too ... - Brace added, referring to the period of the two years in which Amaya had stayed in Archades and their cohabitation.
Amaya spent the rest of the day with Brace, forgetting to visit Noah, who decided to postpone the visit the following day.
Throughout the day, Amaya and Brace told each other what they had done in that long year when they had not seen each other.
The next day as scheduled Amaya went to visit one of the many Noah houses, especially one in which Noah loved to retire and take a break. The house was a huge dwelling, it looked like one of those huge houses of the rich archadian nobility.
It was furnished with a sublime and extremely refined taste that gave the house an atmosphere of mystery and authority, as well as antiquity. The villa was one of the oldest in the imperial city, inside there was an air of solemnity, as if time had stopped in them, the Archadian furniture merged with the style of Landis that somehow seemed to recall the his presence despite the few objects.
Amaya was seen transported in those days when he was in the company of Noah in that huge house because of his apprenticeship. He saw the fencing and sword lessons the judge gave her.
It seemed that at any moment the judge would come out of one of the many doors, the house seemed so empty, Amaya wondered if they were using it or not, but noticed that even the house was uninhabitable.
I walk around for a few hours in the various rooms, noting carefully that nothing was missing, then after another short ride, the girl decided to return to Brace. Amaya stopped at Archades for another two days, until he finally decided to return to Bhujerba.
