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Chapter 2, The city that never sleeps

The silver gates opened automatically as he got closer to it, to his surprise the sky was dark and the stars were twinkling in the sky. Feeling that something was a bit strange he looked back towards the forest, the sky was still blue! His gaze soon traveled right up above his head to his surprise the sky was both dark and bright blue! Riku shook his head and walked into the city, feeling that there was no need to puzzle over that matter anymore. As soon as he entered the town he noticed that it was a very crowded one. People were bustling here and there and loud yells can be heard. Feeling strangely foreign he explored around, his curiousity overcoming his tiredness. After browsing around for a while he found that everything there was immensely interesting. From the mysterious tower in the West side of town or the Auction house, even the card stadium, everything seemed to quite satisfy his thirst for knowledge about the other worlds. His curiosity about other worlds was satisfied but he felt lonely without his two best friends. Questions begin to swirl in his mind as he tried to look for an inn for the night...but well.... it's always night there anyway. After half an hour of wandering about he finally found an inn to rest in, he pushed the wooden door open.
"Err...Excuse me?" He went up to a man near a table. The man stared hard at him through his glasses.
"Well then...what do you want?" he asked roughly.
"I was just wondering if you have a vacant room for me tonight." Riku explained. The man flipped a few pages in his red book and ran his index finger down the left margin.
"Ah...yes. I have a vacant room for you 100 gil please." He told Riku.
"W-wait a second!" Riku said hastily. The man stopped dead and glared at him, which made Riku feel quite scared, "Sorry...I don't get it...g-gil? What are they?" He rushed over his words. The man gave a huge sigh and took his glasses off his nose.
"Look here sonny, now don't you go pretending you don't know what Gils are. I've got enough of this! Last week a girl tried the same trick but it won't work. Go away if you don't have any Gils." He told him off.
" B-but I'm honest! This is no trick!" Stammered Riku helplessly but the man went back to reading his newspaper, ignoring him completely. Riku went back out with a forlorn expression on his face, his thoughts turned to Kairi...the man said that a girl didn't know what gils were last time...it might be Kairi! It was late at night and the streets were completely deserted. He walked up and down the steps to find a small area where no one ever goes to and rested there for a while. His turquoise eyes stared into the jeweled sky with loneliness, wishing he had never been separated from his island but he can't go back now.
"What is this place anyway?" He asked out loud, too desperate, confused and fed up to do anything else.
"The city of Treno...or the city that never sleeps by some. A place where night never ends." A soft, gentle voice replied. Riku tensed up and turned to see who the owner of the voice was. A girl stood there staring blankly at the inky sky. Her dark brown, almost black hair blown wildly by the night wind. Her tea-coloured eyes were distant and deep and she was dressed in a blue-white outfit.
" Excuse me...who are you?" Riku curiously inquired. The girl twirled around and beamed at him quite unexpectedly.
" Acturus...Acturus Jeumi Azura." She almost sang as she came up to Riku, " Why are you out here at this time of the day?" she demanded. Riku looked down again.
" Because I...you wouldn't believe it." He shook his head, " I didn't know what Gils are."
" You came from another world?" Acturus offered the explanation. Riku's bright eyes widened in surprise once more. He looked at her with astonished expressions.
" How did you know?" he questioned. Acturus's eyes danced and she gave a merry laugh. She took Riku's arm and pulled him up.
" I was like that last week. Arrived here with no clue on what was going on. C'mon I know a kind old gentleman who let me live in his house, perhaps he'll let you too." She smiled warmly. Riku followed her to the mysterious tower he saw earlier.