Chapter 06:

"Un blessing da un esper.."

*Terra POV*

I revert to my human form, tired and sleepy.

Sucks...

I explore the area for hours and hours on end..

And I seem to be walking only in a circle..

Here comes Shawn, he's laughing.. At me? Why..?

I walk up to him and place my hands on my hips. "And just why are you laughing?"

Shawn smiled like a perfect gentlemen. "Why, nothing!"

I sighed. I'm going to have one hell of a time adapting to this world. Sighing again, I dug my foot into the ground. "Um.."

"What?"

"Can you show me around?"

"Sure."

He shows me around for the rest of the day until the moon rose high. It's strange.. I was tired and sleepy, yet.. With him I felt energized. I wonder.. maybe it is just the aura of the espers.

We stop and sit on a hill to watch the moon..

The moon. It's beautiful..

Shawn looked over at me, smiling. His eyes softened by both the moonlight and the smell of a field. "I see the world in your eyes."

I blinked at him a few times. What the..

He noticed my confusion and laughed. "Don't mind me.. It's just the night air sometimes gets to me."

"Ah.. O.. Okay." I sighed loudly and fell onto my back, my green hair flying...

Shawn does the same thing, his brown hair falling onto his face.

I decide to humor him. "I see the earth in your hair."

He looks at me strange.

I pointed to my hair, signaling that I was referring to his hair color.

"Uh.. Shawn?" I addressed him softly.

"Yes?"

"How much do you know about me? I mean, it seems like you just appeared out of nowhere."

"Well.." Shawn gazed dreamily into the sky. "How could I not know of you? You, who rid the world of Kefka.. You who were the world's mother.."

I stared at Shawn. "How..?"

"I used to live in the world of yours.. I happily lived in Jidoor amongst the rich and the privileged. Until, that is.. I felt a surge of discomforting power run through my veins. I was pulled into a state of unconsciousness.."

A surge of discomforting power.. I had felt that too.. When I was leading everyone to safety.. After we had done the world justice by killing Kefka. I felt it. It felt curiously good.. Like a first kiss.. or even loosing your virginity-- according to Katarin. But then.. at the same time.. loosing part of me..

"I ripped out of the world of humans.. and take here."

Oh.. so that explained a few things. Not many.. But enough to keep me sustained.

A flash of beautiful colors filled the sky. My eyes widened in wonder.

"What was that?" I asked.

"That.. That is the equivalent of a shooting star.. A blessing. An exper is being born into this world.. Another is dead. Another blessing."

I tilted my head confused.

"It takes a life to make a life. That is the philosophy most commonly used here.. Go on.. Make a wish. It is customary to do so during the blessings of an esper."

A wish..

I close my eyes..

And I wish..

What do I wish for?

I wish for the worlds to be together. I wish to be with my friends, and not lose that part of me I have just freshly regained..

I wish to make it right again.

The blessings of an esper...

Oh how you will make it right again.