Winter Blossoms
By: Aeris
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And, this contains spoilers. Durr. I appreciate reviews very much; they make me write a lot faster too. Don't flame me saying how Aeri/Seph sucks and how it'll never happen because that makes you narrow-minded. It also makes you stupid in the fact of failing to notice the title of this site: FanFiction. It doesn't have to make sense.-.,.-
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The air held a certain chill that night. It wasn't unusual for the wind to be cold, but… Aeris knew that this chill wasn't due to only temperature. Something else was hidden in the frosty bite.
Yet she couldn't seem to figure out what it was. She leaned, elbows resting on her windowsill, peering out into the slum around her. It was a contrasting picture: there were her mysteriously beautiful flowers on one side, and yet on the other, piled garbage, shadows, lurking monsters, people cowering in the shadows, the homeless, the starving, the sick… it was a depressing sight to look at. Though this place was never thriving… why couldn't all of the underplate be like her flower garden? Light, cheerful, happy… full of life. Clean.
And yet, Aeris knew deep in her heart, those words could never be used to describe this desolate place, this area that she had grown attached to, and dared to call 'Home.' She knew that a place like this could only get worse, never better. The air would always hold that stench of death and rot, the breath of hopelessness. She sighed, tracing her fingertip along the glass.
The days were always like this. But usually, she didn't feel this strange emotion within her heart. She knew that Planet was trying to tell her something. It always was, yet this message seemed so urgent. She brooded in thought, attempting to piece together the puzzle of this mission she had yet to find.
Some time passed. She got up, grabbing her winter coat, her gloves, and her flower basket. She decided it did no good to sit around in thought all day. She was going out to attempt to make some money. She hadn't eaten since yesterday, after all.
Aeris walked out the door, pulling it shut, not knowing the events fate had lain out for her on this day…