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CHAPTER FOUR:
After searching down here for nearly an hour they sat down, exhausted by their day. So much had happened, getting to Gaia, racing to the castle, finding the crack to get in the castle and the storm smashing down and destroying the castle..then an hour in this hell...
"Here," Lunar handed Hitomi something to eat.
"Aren't you hungry?" Hitomi asked.
"I'm fine." Lunar said.
"No really...you can have it..I don't feel like eating."
Lunar grinned. "I insist, Hitomi. Please. Do that for me."
Hitomi snapped the biscuit thing in half and gave Lunar it. "How about that...now we both have some."
Lunar's dark eyes seemed to liquidise. She looked at Hitomi with a new light.
Then it's true..., She thought.
Hitomi put the biscuit in her mouth and chewed, then swallowing. She missed Van, it felt like she could hear his heartbeat..as she strained to hear it.it faded away and made her think she'd imagined it.
"So.....you always look at the mystic moon, Lunar?" Hitomi asked.
"Yeah. Always. Don't know why." Lunar replied.
"Would you...like to learn about Tarot? You seemed really interested..." Hitomi had a light smile on her face.
Lunar looked touched. "I'd....love....to."
Hitomi sat down in front of her and began to teach her things, about the basics of the cards and how to tell, how to try and bond and link with the cards and how understanding would come to her. They sat there for a while until Hitomi rounded off the lesson. Lunar was amazed. She got up and Hitomi stood up just after.
"Lets go." Lunar said. "Van is still waiting."
~*************~
They had been walking down there for another half hour and not fond anything.
"Your family hadn't really gone away, had they?" Lunar said suddenly.
"No.." Hitomi's voice was distant.
"I'm sorry." Lunar said.
True, Hitomi was getting used to the idea that Lunar could just sense things, some people were very receptive. Lunar was just one of them. Sensing danger and sorrow was a primitive instinct after all, animals tasted both. Hitomi had only a legal carer, her family left her their home. They died in a car accident, a maniac drunk had rammed into the car....now Hitomi carried her cards, the only things left with happy memories that she could take with her out into the world.
She had nothing back there, on the Mystic Moon....she'd stay here, with people here left who were like family.
"If it....makes anything a little different...I've no family left either." Lunar said. 2They perished a while ago. One dropped after the other."
Hitomi nodded and gave a friendly hug. "Then we're at an understanding...thank you for bringing me here..."
"We both love gaia..why not? You're the only hope I have left of saving the land, Hitomi. I owe you for aiding Gaia before."
Hitomi smiled. Yes. She had a friend and one who understood perfectly. But one thing remained unknown and that was why Lunar looked so much like Van.
"Lunar?" Hitomi started.
"What?" Lunar replied.
"Are you Van's sister?"
CHAPTER FOUR:
After searching down here for nearly an hour they sat down, exhausted by their day. So much had happened, getting to Gaia, racing to the castle, finding the crack to get in the castle and the storm smashing down and destroying the castle..then an hour in this hell...
"Here," Lunar handed Hitomi something to eat.
"Aren't you hungry?" Hitomi asked.
"I'm fine." Lunar said.
"No really...you can have it..I don't feel like eating."
Lunar grinned. "I insist, Hitomi. Please. Do that for me."
Hitomi snapped the biscuit thing in half and gave Lunar it. "How about that...now we both have some."
Lunar's dark eyes seemed to liquidise. She looked at Hitomi with a new light.
Then it's true..., She thought.
Hitomi put the biscuit in her mouth and chewed, then swallowing. She missed Van, it felt like she could hear his heartbeat..as she strained to hear it.it faded away and made her think she'd imagined it.
"So.....you always look at the mystic moon, Lunar?" Hitomi asked.
"Yeah. Always. Don't know why." Lunar replied.
"Would you...like to learn about Tarot? You seemed really interested..." Hitomi had a light smile on her face.
Lunar looked touched. "I'd....love....to."
Hitomi sat down in front of her and began to teach her things, about the basics of the cards and how to tell, how to try and bond and link with the cards and how understanding would come to her. They sat there for a while until Hitomi rounded off the lesson. Lunar was amazed. She got up and Hitomi stood up just after.
"Lets go." Lunar said. "Van is still waiting."
~*************~
They had been walking down there for another half hour and not fond anything.
"Your family hadn't really gone away, had they?" Lunar said suddenly.
"No.." Hitomi's voice was distant.
"I'm sorry." Lunar said.
True, Hitomi was getting used to the idea that Lunar could just sense things, some people were very receptive. Lunar was just one of them. Sensing danger and sorrow was a primitive instinct after all, animals tasted both. Hitomi had only a legal carer, her family left her their home. They died in a car accident, a maniac drunk had rammed into the car....now Hitomi carried her cards, the only things left with happy memories that she could take with her out into the world.
She had nothing back there, on the Mystic Moon....she'd stay here, with people here left who were like family.
"If it....makes anything a little different...I've no family left either." Lunar said. 2They perished a while ago. One dropped after the other."
Hitomi nodded and gave a friendly hug. "Then we're at an understanding...thank you for bringing me here..."
"We both love gaia..why not? You're the only hope I have left of saving the land, Hitomi. I owe you for aiding Gaia before."
Hitomi smiled. Yes. She had a friend and one who understood perfectly. But one thing remained unknown and that was why Lunar looked so much like Van.
"Lunar?" Hitomi started.
"What?" Lunar replied.
"Are you Van's sister?"