DISCLAIMER: Suikoden 2 and all related stuff belongs to Konami, not me;if it DID belong to moi, Eilie and Riou would have ended up together and so would Kasumi and Tir.
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Sundered Hearts No More
Chapter 1
Sweet Memories-The Beginning
She softly sighed and breathed in the cool air. as she lay back on the grass, eilie gazed at the stars above her head.
There was Orion, to its left was the Scorpio constellation, oh and there was the planet Surti, with its luminous color.
She remembered all their names, well almost all; but more than that she remembered the one who had taught her the names od the stars, she remembered him...
How long had it been since the war ended?
Eight years?
Eight long years...
Now she was already 25 and since she had become as beautiful as her sister Rina. She stood at 5' 8"; her jet-black hair had been grown to her shoulders and usually tied behind her back. She had maintained her lithe and firm figure mainly due to the miles she, Rina and Bolgan had to walk to get to other towns and cities for their show.
All the men that saw her would try to flirt with her at their shows. Some had even tried to propose to her and Rina. Rina could easily swat them away like flies as she could attract them by batting her eyelashes for a favor or two. She, well she couldn't do that.
Eilie might be older now but she was still a young and innocent girl inside. None of the young men she had encountered understood that.
*Sigh*
It was during one of those shows that she had first met Riou and his friend Jowy. Eilie had been
performing her knife-throwing routine. Riou had been selected as the target-he was to stand in front of a tree. Bolgan then placed various fruits on his head and Eilie had hit them perfectly. Riou had stood rigidly afraid of being skewered as the crowd watched on. Only when Bolgan placed a small apple which looked even smaller when placed on Riou's head, did Riou start to fidget a little, his fears elevated by the sudden apprehension of the crowd. When Eilie was about to throw the knife, her arm already swinging in an arc, she saw the young stranger's eyes.
She constantly told Rina that love and mushy stuff like that were not for her, yet she was still a girl. She too had a young and romantic heart. But she never knew she would ever fall in love like that.
Her concentration broken, Eilie swung her arm down and let go of the blade. It cut the wind, speeding towards its destination like a supercharged rocket. Everything seemed to slow down for a second or two; she heard the crowd gasping as she too looked with them at the rapidly moving knife.
