Lost Connections
By: Milai and Aurora
Milliardo Peacecraft
Noin. She's been my best friend and partner through and through. Her sacrifices are the main reasons why I'm where I am today, and her complete and utter faith in me is astounding. She's been such a great help to me, and there is no better person to work at my right hand. However, there are things I fail to understand about her. Does she see something in me I do not? For countless years, I have wondered why she assists me by making such large sacrifices as being second best to make me look better, and lending a hand when not necessary. I think that's severing our friendship in more ways than one. Lately, she hasn't been the Noin I've known in the past. She used to look at me with eyes full of expression and now they're becoming full in void. It hurts when I think about it, and the mere fact that every attempt to speak with her results in a cold stare is heartrending.
"Noin…" I called to her as we stood on the balcony overlooking the Sanc Kingdom.
"Yes?" she said her eyes slowly opening to meet mine, as we stood there, our eyes locked under the star filled sky of the north.
"I'm worried about you. In all our years of being friends…" I said reaching out to touch her shoulder, but feeling a shroud of iciness surrounding her.
"No need to be worried about me. I'll be perfectly fine." She withdrew from my touch. A cold wind blew, it being the middle of winter, as her hair blew to the side, her eyes still concealing some hidden emotion…one that I couldn't understand.