Mikomi glanced across the room. There was only one person standing there: a young lady with short green hair staring out into space. "Her?" Mikomi asked, moving her head towards the green-haired girl.
"Yup. Here's your key. Good luck," the receptionist gave Mikomi the key, and answered the ringing phone.
Mikomi took a deep breath and walked toward the green haired girl. "Hi," Mikomi said, "It looks like you and I are roommates." She let out a nervous chuckle.
"Come." Hime said signaling as she starting walking away. As Hime and Mikomi walked up the stairs to the third floor, Mikomi started to wonder if that good feeling she got was just butterflies. Her roommate didn't seem too friendly. They finally arrived to the room. Hime unlocked the door, and led Mikomi in.
Mikomi was surprised. The room looked very personalized. There were candles everywhere. Mikomi counted five incense holders in sight. There were two double beds and two dressers.
"Hi. My name is Himeichiji Meiou." Hime said to her new roommate.
"I'm Mikomi Urawa, and please tell me you have a nickname. There is no way I'm going to pronounce that correctly."
Hime laughed lightly. "Yes, my nickname's Hime. Sorry for being so cold downstairs. I've just been in a foul mood today."
"That's ok, I guess we all have our moods."
"You can have the left dresser," Hime said after realizing Mikomi was standing there with nowhere to put her luggage. Mikomi unzipped her suitcase and started unpacking. Hime saw that Mikomi had glanced at her candle and incense collection.
"I hope you don't mind candles and incense,"
"No, not at all."
"Good, because otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten along."
Both laughed and started emerging into a conversation about Mikomi's old home.
"Nephrite Hills, huh? I don't know about you, but I would have hated that place. It's so old,"
"I hated it too......I'm so glad I transferred here,"
"By the way, you're invited to a meditation party in ten minutes,"
"Wow, I've only been here an hour and already invited to a party. Go Mikomi!" Mikomi said jokingly.
Hime laughed. "This isn't a normal party though. Have you ever past-life regressed?"
Mikomi nodded her head. "No, but it sounds interesting,"
"Neither have I, but I'm going to tonight. Well, the party's right across the hall, room 315. I got to go. I promised I would help set up." Hime got a plastic bad and started loading her candles and incense into them.
"Okay," Mikomi said as she lifted her suitcase up onto the bed. And with that Hime left, and Mikomi was all by herself.
Mikomi was finishing unpacking, when in room three fifteen, Hime was getting regressed. She was laying comfortably on a dark green velvet couch. The relaxation process had begun. Hime felt as if her arms and legs were disappearing from her body.

Thunder crashed. Mikomi gasped as she glanced out of the window just to see the brightness of lightning.
Hime couldn't hear the thunder. She was in her subconscious mind, walking in a tunnel towards a bright light. Lightning struck again as Hime walked into the bright light.
She had traveled to a land that seems so distant yet so familiar. The ground was gray, cold and barren. This was different than her former past life regressions. She was dressed in a vibrant purple dress, and stood in front of thousands of people, whom she had never seen before. They yelled out for her: "Princess! Princess!"
Distantly, she heard Paul's voice. "First of all, what is your name?"
Hime swallowed. "My name.......I don't know my name. They call me...they call me Princess."
Paul responded back. "Who are 'they'?"
"The people...they cry out to me." Hime felt so overwhelmed with mystification. She didn't know why they cried out to her. She just knew that they were a distressed people.
Just then, she looked beyond the hoards of people. Thunder crashed and lightning struck.
"GET ME OUT! GET ME OUT!" Hime screamed. Before she knew it, she was hearing Paul count from 1 to 10. She opened her eyes, comforted to be in her own world.
Then, she heard it. The thunder and the lightning. She jumped out of her seat, with tears in her eyes, and ran back to her room.