'Look to the stars and see the next light...
Now your journey may end in a crashing flight...
Sex is not a game, Almasy...
Do not toy with the strings of fate,
For if they are undone,
You may be lost for the rest of your life...
Now, awaken, and do your best to stay on track!
After all,
Men are the head,
But women are the neck,
And the head needs the neck to turn...
Hee hee hee...'
Salix Almasy sat up in the familiar, room of many identical ones in the Naughty Dog. But, something just wasn't right... She was a little cold on her left, but warm on her right, and she didn't have any clothes on. Salix looked to her right, jumping slightly and gripping the rim of the covers as her eyes fell on Livid, one hand around her waist and fast asleep. She shook her head, remembering last night. "How did I do that? Could I?... Poor Sabbath... damn, I hope he used a condom... daddy will kill me if I get pregnant- daddy..." she looked down, climbing over to the side of the bed, finding her feet suddenly interesting. Hot tears fell down her eyes, as she held the cover tighter. Was daddy gone? No, was Seifer gone? Was mom? No, was Fujin? Was Raijin, Rira, and the entire Garden gone like Kiba's and Shiro's? If that wasn't true, that meant the voice that had been in her head... was right, and Ysamla, she was really a traitor. Could she be trusted?
"... Salix... I'm... sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry, you seemed to enjoy it last night, so I didn't stop... I mean, I... I'd imagine that you're sore. It was your first time, wasn't it...?" Salix looked over, seeing Livid awake with a worried look on his face.
"Livid... What the hell do you speak of?" she asked, confused. She then realized she had been sobbing. That's not right... Salix Almasy never sobbed... she could be held against a hundered foot flame by a giant pair of pliers while being torn apart and wouldn't even sniffle.
"Why are you crying? Did I hurt you?" Livid asked, leaning over and playing with her hair "you're only fourteen..."
"Oh, no, you didn't hurt me... but..." she fell on him, sobbing on his chest. She was only fourteen, not only far too young for what her intentions with boys focused in, but also too young to lose her parents, the parents she loved, and the world she knew only.
"?.... Salix... Please... I'm tired; I don't want another round..." he moaned, falling backwards onto the bed.
"What are you talking about?! Look, you were good, but don't think I'll beg you for more, okay? By and by, I... I can't stand the fact that my parents might be dead..." she looked down, nuzzling his chest.
"... They are, and I encourage you to get over it... Look, you can't always suck off of mommy and daddy, so start your own life now, okay?"
"? No, not okay! I thought you were a SeeD!" she sat up, climbing off of the bed and pulling her dress over top of her head. She even looked around for her panties, which was odd because normally she didn't even deal with underwear in mornings, but she'd rather not be flipped over by an enemy and give it the blue moon.
He whistled as she turned around, and tossed Salix her underwear "Duh! Oh my god, Hyne, I see a view of a genius."
"Shut up. I mean are you really going to let the enemy get away with this? Or more, are you going to really advise your boss?"
"I don't have a boss," he muttered, shrugging and laying back "Squall never had a boss."
"Squall Leonhart's boss was Rinoa Heartilly, remember?" Salix sighed, stretching out her ruffled dress.
"... I hate her. I was reading about her in our History books, she wasn't there helping Squall out. She took away his pride, made him her lap dog... made him 'sweet'... That's, that's disgusting. Especially the contract they wrote out! 'Until Timber's independence'?! What type of agreement is that?! That's why Cid is a fool..." Livid said through gritted teeth.
"Well, you're my lap dog now, for one, and for two, Rinoa just so happens to be the enemy. She's Quagmire's 'assistant', and Perry Quagmire is the head of Jaromaru. Undoubtedly, she's involved in the attacks..." Salix shrugged.
"How do you guess that?"
"I talked to her once. No way somebody as Vice President is that stupid. There's a reason behind that whole 'President' scam... I know! We'll look up dirt on Quagmire!" she said brightly, like a light bulb had turned on her head.
"Hyne, save me, she keeps thinking!" Livid moaned, sitting up finally and looked around "light me up that cigarette and I'll strap shoes on my feet..."
"Smoking is such a filthy habit, really. Not even the bad kids consider smoking, just the stupid ones..."
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!!! The door vibrated as somebody knocked on it.
Break point
"Hey, Livid, come on guy, get up! We can't find Salix!" it was Hega at the door.
A look of panic and fear washed over Salix's face. "What do we do?" she mouthed at him.
"I dun know!" he hissed back.
"Okay, I'll hide, you keep it cool..." Salix climbed under the bed, as Livid leapt up and opened the door.
"Yo, dude, you still ain't dressed!?" Hega didn't seem to really care about the fact that Livid answered in his boxers, though "look, we can't find Miss Salix! Oh, I'm tellin' you, this is like when the Chinks lost, and it all went down hill!"
"Uh... Salix is gone!? Come on, let's go and find her, fast!" Livid felt a hard pain in the back of his leg as Salix kicked him from under the bed. She told him to act like he would before he banged her.
"Huh? You okay, Livid?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, course I am! I mean... calm down, Hega. The little witch didn't get too far..." Livid said, sounding more like himself, and less corny.
"Alright, then! Get some clothes on, and I'll meet you by the door!" Hega nodded, turning and running off. Livid shut the door, sighing slightly, before catching himself. Why was he so relieved?
"That was close..." Salix climbed out from under the bed, handing Livid a pair of pants and shirt "you sure are clean, Livid."
"Hey, I didn't know I'd get a naked girl in my bed so easily. If I had, I would have cleaned up, ya know?" Livid laughed.
Ya know... A stab of physical pain entered Salix's side. Uncle Raijin, he still had to be alive. The Garden, it was all in one piece. They're aura, they're presence, still was around her for some reason, like they were standing next to her. She hoped they weren't dead and haunting her last night, at least.
Livid frowned, noticing her lurch, but then curiosity struck him "Salix, how come you hid from Hega?"
"Huh?" 'Because, of Sabbath' she thought, but instead said "because, I... Look, we ain't got time for this..."
"But, we have time for that?" she realized that since they were standing so close, she had her hands down his boxers, fondling him.
"Oops, sorry..." she giggled slightly, pulling her hands out "sub- consciousness..."
"I see..." he shrugged.
Break point.
"Livid, don't say a thing, understand? I know how cocky you are, but if you intend to be cocky I'll tell them how many inches you are!" Salix threatened, racing after Livid through the halls of Naughty Dog, who proved how naughty it really was.
"Cross my heart... But, why?" Livid asked, confused.
"Look, I have reasons, and I thought we went through this!" she snapped.
"You changed the reason... are you hiding something from me!?" Livid asked.
"No, nothing but the things that are meant to stay hidden... Now, hush, we're nearing the door..."
They came out in a bright patch of light on the escape hatch, to a bit of calling. The platform lowered out onto the ground and in front of Hega, who was amazed to see Salix "Hey! How where were you?!"
Salix searched for a good cover up "um... I decided to explore some unknown parts of the ship last night, and I guess I fell asleep..."
"In the big bedroom in the back? The orange one? The abandoned room, is that where you were?" Hega asked, giddy.
"Um... Yeah, sure."
"Darn! I told them to look there, but Selphie and Quistis said there was no way in the world you'd sleep somewhere so old and musty, and dark. I proved them wrong!" Hega turned, shouting out "hey, guys, she was in the ship all along! You can come back now!"
From the little lush green bushes that dotted the islands cove, Selphie, Kega, and Ysamla emerged. From the other side, one filled with rocks and obviously a labyrinth of caves, emerged Tilba, Quistis, and Sabbath.
Break Point
"... You were really in this room?" Quistis stood outside of a small, unfriendly looking door, with shadows seeping out of the old cracks to reach out and yank somebody in.
"Um, yeah..." Salix nodded. She hated lying to Quistis, but if it helped...
"... Okay then..." Quistis nodded, pulling a pair of old looking keys out of her pocket "A dear, dear old friend of mine left thee with me quite some time ago... if I'm right about this ship, some kinky things happened in this room..." Quistis and Salix and only Quistis and Salix had come this far back into the ship. Tilba had said it was dangerous, too rusty, too old, too poor conditioned to go back there, that he himself had never went past the old revamped Pent House room. This room was just a bit back from the Pent House, and yet the surprise and shock Salix got from Quistis asking her to come back with her into this room made the time seem like forever. Still, the space ship was even a minute long all around, surprising Salix even more.
"... Quisty, why did we come back here? I mean, I slept back here, I don't see what all the fuss is about-..." Salix stopped in mid sentence, because as soon as Quistis opened the door with the key, a picture was in plain view.
They were kids, yes, but so familiar. Seifer Almasy, clearly, age 15, sat on a fish's head of a fountain, aiming the stream of water at Raijin, who was obviously laughing about being wet, while standing on another fountain was a worried looking Fujin, watching some of the stupidest gender play their idiotic games. But, even more intriguing, two young blonde headed girls sat backed up against the fountain, one making bunny ears over the older one's head.
"Quistis... why is an old photo of my mom and dad in this room...?" Salix asked, stepping slowly into the room. She could feel hot water welling up in her eyes.
"So, you weren't in here last night. Well... The two blonde girls in the center there? That's me, and the other one is none other than Saranie Almasy, your aunt. It wasn't until she was dead did I realize why she had given me the keys of this ship when she and Squall went to Ore... she didn't know who I really was, and had no reason to trust me. But a week after she was gone, the memories came swarming back to me, one by one. Saranie had came and visited a few weeks before my SeeD test, you see. We had been the best of friends as children... the GF's made me forget... But, this is when the photo was taken. She had to leave again, and that was the last time any of us saw her for a whole six and a half years... She wished me good luck on my test, then left. I passed my test... I didn't think they'd let me, I being so young, but I couldn't stop thinking that maybe Saranie had something, just something to do with it. It took so long to remember... it was when I finally came into this room to pick up her ship, I saw that picture... I couldn't bear to enter the thing again, so it was left here. This is Saranie's room..."
Salix walked quietly through out the room. Obviously, she had stayed in contact with Seifer on some occasions. There were pictures of him and her at 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 ages. They seemed very close, like any pair of siblings who didn't always have to deal with each other. The freshest one, though... They were both in the same hall, the one with the fountain, and she was hugging his neck, looking happier than ever, but he himself... didn't look to good. He had black circles under his eyes, the eyes themselves weren't of the same bright green, but a dull dead grass, and he was unkempt and not so cool looking. That was the year after the sorceress dilemma.
"... Quistis, I... Dad, everywhere, but at the same time, nowhere..." she sat down on the bed, sobbing onto her knees. How come he was gone?! What was Quagmire doing?! Once Quagmire was dead, whom would she have left to blame...?
"... Salix..." Quistis sighed.
Salix looked up slowly, but before she could reach Quistis's silent yet beautiful ice queen face, her eyes fell upon a wrapper. She stood up, moving over slowly and picking up the wrapper. A condom wrapper.
"? I guess Saranie wasn't exactly halo-over-my-head Ellone or pretending- there's-a-halo-over-my-head Rinoa...?" Salix asked. She had indeed talked to Rinoa on the phone once long ago for a report, and seemed like she had the woman figured, as for Ellone, she loved Ellone to pieces, especially the way she was ready to throw herself into danger but not really exactly.
"... You know what that is?"
"Yeah, it's a condom... Trojan, I think... Too old, labels rubbed off... why?"
"Young lady, if you know what a condom is, you have some explaining to do!"
"... Eh? Look, I'm a teenager, ya can't hide these things from me..."
"It's a little hard to devise a way to when the girl your trying to hide it from is in the next room fulfilling a man's pleasures!" Quistis said, angry now.
"Quisty... Don't, okay? Besides, when I did ask mom about it, she handed me a condom and said 'study up, and remember this at all times', so nothing to be ashamed of... I wonder if maybe Squall and Saranie came back to the ship, and that's how it got here?" despite a gruesome thought of her aunt having sex, Salix was suddenly hyper about the condom wrapper.
To Salix's dismay, Quistis shook her head "No, Sal. That was more than likely from Irvine and Saranie... Selphie says he throws them out everywhere... I mean, well, that's how the ship was broken. Selphie threw Irvine into the control panel after he had a little game with Saranie... Tilba Lee is a very talented mechanic, you know?"
"... Rira, she was Saranie's cat?" Salix's eyes fell on another little picture, one that obviously Saranie took by holding the camera in one hand and squeezing her and the kittens face into the snap shot.
"Oh, yes. After Saranie's death... Seifer kind of adopted him."
"... I see... Quistis, could you please leave me alone? For a while, I mean? I have to contemplate this..."
Quistis nodded in agreement to Salix, walking over and kissing her forehead "you sure you'll be okay?" after a nod of reassurance from Salix, Quistis reluctantly left.
Break point.
"Not this again!" Salix screamed, looking around in the pitch-black world that surrounded her. No lights, no presence, just... 'black'.
"Oh yes, my dear... I'm afraid I haven't gotten through to you... Time is wasting, and you are in bed with a boy who might die at any second?"
"Just a second! You're going to answer my questions now?!" Salix asked eagerly, turning and running towards the voice. Though she dreaded to hear it, and it's words, she loved its familiarity all the same. The voice in the dark, like God leading Moses, this female well-mannered voice was like the words of commandments to Salix.
"... I shall... Please, what is it you must know that I have not told you?"
"... Are you just in my dreams, or are you a messenger?"
"... I am a messenger of the witches... Your aunt has sent me to be your guide..."
"So, I'm not dreaming all of this? I mean, I am, but all the same it's... real? Wait, my aunt?! Saranie?! Is she alive?! Where is she!?"
"... This, I cannot answer... You must find it... First, you must deal with your inner demon..."
"... Inner demon?!"
"... You have a power that's far greater than any witch I've ever seen... You must find a way to use such power as a weapon..."
"... Power!? What power?! What do you mean, witches?!"
"You, your father, your aunt... all witches... all of you, you're death my only come by the hand of a sorceress or witch... but, you, my dear, you and only you may be able to overcome such... You must stop the last sorceress..."
Continued.
Notes: Ow... well, my chest hurts, so I have really no clue where to go with this. I really get bad things go on with me when I write about the voice... itchy nose, chest pain, cuts start to hurt, I step on a cat... That's weird... Beware ze voice!
Now your journey may end in a crashing flight...
Sex is not a game, Almasy...
Do not toy with the strings of fate,
For if they are undone,
You may be lost for the rest of your life...
Now, awaken, and do your best to stay on track!
After all,
Men are the head,
But women are the neck,
And the head needs the neck to turn...
Hee hee hee...'
Salix Almasy sat up in the familiar, room of many identical ones in the Naughty Dog. But, something just wasn't right... She was a little cold on her left, but warm on her right, and she didn't have any clothes on. Salix looked to her right, jumping slightly and gripping the rim of the covers as her eyes fell on Livid, one hand around her waist and fast asleep. She shook her head, remembering last night. "How did I do that? Could I?... Poor Sabbath... damn, I hope he used a condom... daddy will kill me if I get pregnant- daddy..." she looked down, climbing over to the side of the bed, finding her feet suddenly interesting. Hot tears fell down her eyes, as she held the cover tighter. Was daddy gone? No, was Seifer gone? Was mom? No, was Fujin? Was Raijin, Rira, and the entire Garden gone like Kiba's and Shiro's? If that wasn't true, that meant the voice that had been in her head... was right, and Ysamla, she was really a traitor. Could she be trusted?
"... Salix... I'm... sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry, you seemed to enjoy it last night, so I didn't stop... I mean, I... I'd imagine that you're sore. It was your first time, wasn't it...?" Salix looked over, seeing Livid awake with a worried look on his face.
"Livid... What the hell do you speak of?" she asked, confused. She then realized she had been sobbing. That's not right... Salix Almasy never sobbed... she could be held against a hundered foot flame by a giant pair of pliers while being torn apart and wouldn't even sniffle.
"Why are you crying? Did I hurt you?" Livid asked, leaning over and playing with her hair "you're only fourteen..."
"Oh, no, you didn't hurt me... but..." she fell on him, sobbing on his chest. She was only fourteen, not only far too young for what her intentions with boys focused in, but also too young to lose her parents, the parents she loved, and the world she knew only.
"?.... Salix... Please... I'm tired; I don't want another round..." he moaned, falling backwards onto the bed.
"What are you talking about?! Look, you were good, but don't think I'll beg you for more, okay? By and by, I... I can't stand the fact that my parents might be dead..." she looked down, nuzzling his chest.
"... They are, and I encourage you to get over it... Look, you can't always suck off of mommy and daddy, so start your own life now, okay?"
"? No, not okay! I thought you were a SeeD!" she sat up, climbing off of the bed and pulling her dress over top of her head. She even looked around for her panties, which was odd because normally she didn't even deal with underwear in mornings, but she'd rather not be flipped over by an enemy and give it the blue moon.
He whistled as she turned around, and tossed Salix her underwear "Duh! Oh my god, Hyne, I see a view of a genius."
"Shut up. I mean are you really going to let the enemy get away with this? Or more, are you going to really advise your boss?"
"I don't have a boss," he muttered, shrugging and laying back "Squall never had a boss."
"Squall Leonhart's boss was Rinoa Heartilly, remember?" Salix sighed, stretching out her ruffled dress.
"... I hate her. I was reading about her in our History books, she wasn't there helping Squall out. She took away his pride, made him her lap dog... made him 'sweet'... That's, that's disgusting. Especially the contract they wrote out! 'Until Timber's independence'?! What type of agreement is that?! That's why Cid is a fool..." Livid said through gritted teeth.
"Well, you're my lap dog now, for one, and for two, Rinoa just so happens to be the enemy. She's Quagmire's 'assistant', and Perry Quagmire is the head of Jaromaru. Undoubtedly, she's involved in the attacks..." Salix shrugged.
"How do you guess that?"
"I talked to her once. No way somebody as Vice President is that stupid. There's a reason behind that whole 'President' scam... I know! We'll look up dirt on Quagmire!" she said brightly, like a light bulb had turned on her head.
"Hyne, save me, she keeps thinking!" Livid moaned, sitting up finally and looked around "light me up that cigarette and I'll strap shoes on my feet..."
"Smoking is such a filthy habit, really. Not even the bad kids consider smoking, just the stupid ones..."
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!!! The door vibrated as somebody knocked on it.
Break point
"Hey, Livid, come on guy, get up! We can't find Salix!" it was Hega at the door.
A look of panic and fear washed over Salix's face. "What do we do?" she mouthed at him.
"I dun know!" he hissed back.
"Okay, I'll hide, you keep it cool..." Salix climbed under the bed, as Livid leapt up and opened the door.
"Yo, dude, you still ain't dressed!?" Hega didn't seem to really care about the fact that Livid answered in his boxers, though "look, we can't find Miss Salix! Oh, I'm tellin' you, this is like when the Chinks lost, and it all went down hill!"
"Uh... Salix is gone!? Come on, let's go and find her, fast!" Livid felt a hard pain in the back of his leg as Salix kicked him from under the bed. She told him to act like he would before he banged her.
"Huh? You okay, Livid?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, course I am! I mean... calm down, Hega. The little witch didn't get too far..." Livid said, sounding more like himself, and less corny.
"Alright, then! Get some clothes on, and I'll meet you by the door!" Hega nodded, turning and running off. Livid shut the door, sighing slightly, before catching himself. Why was he so relieved?
"That was close..." Salix climbed out from under the bed, handing Livid a pair of pants and shirt "you sure are clean, Livid."
"Hey, I didn't know I'd get a naked girl in my bed so easily. If I had, I would have cleaned up, ya know?" Livid laughed.
Ya know... A stab of physical pain entered Salix's side. Uncle Raijin, he still had to be alive. The Garden, it was all in one piece. They're aura, they're presence, still was around her for some reason, like they were standing next to her. She hoped they weren't dead and haunting her last night, at least.
Livid frowned, noticing her lurch, but then curiosity struck him "Salix, how come you hid from Hega?"
"Huh?" 'Because, of Sabbath' she thought, but instead said "because, I... Look, we ain't got time for this..."
"But, we have time for that?" she realized that since they were standing so close, she had her hands down his boxers, fondling him.
"Oops, sorry..." she giggled slightly, pulling her hands out "sub- consciousness..."
"I see..." he shrugged.
Break point.
"Livid, don't say a thing, understand? I know how cocky you are, but if you intend to be cocky I'll tell them how many inches you are!" Salix threatened, racing after Livid through the halls of Naughty Dog, who proved how naughty it really was.
"Cross my heart... But, why?" Livid asked, confused.
"Look, I have reasons, and I thought we went through this!" she snapped.
"You changed the reason... are you hiding something from me!?" Livid asked.
"No, nothing but the things that are meant to stay hidden... Now, hush, we're nearing the door..."
They came out in a bright patch of light on the escape hatch, to a bit of calling. The platform lowered out onto the ground and in front of Hega, who was amazed to see Salix "Hey! How where were you?!"
Salix searched for a good cover up "um... I decided to explore some unknown parts of the ship last night, and I guess I fell asleep..."
"In the big bedroom in the back? The orange one? The abandoned room, is that where you were?" Hega asked, giddy.
"Um... Yeah, sure."
"Darn! I told them to look there, but Selphie and Quistis said there was no way in the world you'd sleep somewhere so old and musty, and dark. I proved them wrong!" Hega turned, shouting out "hey, guys, she was in the ship all along! You can come back now!"
From the little lush green bushes that dotted the islands cove, Selphie, Kega, and Ysamla emerged. From the other side, one filled with rocks and obviously a labyrinth of caves, emerged Tilba, Quistis, and Sabbath.
Break Point
"... You were really in this room?" Quistis stood outside of a small, unfriendly looking door, with shadows seeping out of the old cracks to reach out and yank somebody in.
"Um, yeah..." Salix nodded. She hated lying to Quistis, but if it helped...
"... Okay then..." Quistis nodded, pulling a pair of old looking keys out of her pocket "A dear, dear old friend of mine left thee with me quite some time ago... if I'm right about this ship, some kinky things happened in this room..." Quistis and Salix and only Quistis and Salix had come this far back into the ship. Tilba had said it was dangerous, too rusty, too old, too poor conditioned to go back there, that he himself had never went past the old revamped Pent House room. This room was just a bit back from the Pent House, and yet the surprise and shock Salix got from Quistis asking her to come back with her into this room made the time seem like forever. Still, the space ship was even a minute long all around, surprising Salix even more.
"... Quisty, why did we come back here? I mean, I slept back here, I don't see what all the fuss is about-..." Salix stopped in mid sentence, because as soon as Quistis opened the door with the key, a picture was in plain view.
They were kids, yes, but so familiar. Seifer Almasy, clearly, age 15, sat on a fish's head of a fountain, aiming the stream of water at Raijin, who was obviously laughing about being wet, while standing on another fountain was a worried looking Fujin, watching some of the stupidest gender play their idiotic games. But, even more intriguing, two young blonde headed girls sat backed up against the fountain, one making bunny ears over the older one's head.
"Quistis... why is an old photo of my mom and dad in this room...?" Salix asked, stepping slowly into the room. She could feel hot water welling up in her eyes.
"So, you weren't in here last night. Well... The two blonde girls in the center there? That's me, and the other one is none other than Saranie Almasy, your aunt. It wasn't until she was dead did I realize why she had given me the keys of this ship when she and Squall went to Ore... she didn't know who I really was, and had no reason to trust me. But a week after she was gone, the memories came swarming back to me, one by one. Saranie had came and visited a few weeks before my SeeD test, you see. We had been the best of friends as children... the GF's made me forget... But, this is when the photo was taken. She had to leave again, and that was the last time any of us saw her for a whole six and a half years... She wished me good luck on my test, then left. I passed my test... I didn't think they'd let me, I being so young, but I couldn't stop thinking that maybe Saranie had something, just something to do with it. It took so long to remember... it was when I finally came into this room to pick up her ship, I saw that picture... I couldn't bear to enter the thing again, so it was left here. This is Saranie's room..."
Salix walked quietly through out the room. Obviously, she had stayed in contact with Seifer on some occasions. There were pictures of him and her at 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 ages. They seemed very close, like any pair of siblings who didn't always have to deal with each other. The freshest one, though... They were both in the same hall, the one with the fountain, and she was hugging his neck, looking happier than ever, but he himself... didn't look to good. He had black circles under his eyes, the eyes themselves weren't of the same bright green, but a dull dead grass, and he was unkempt and not so cool looking. That was the year after the sorceress dilemma.
"... Quistis, I... Dad, everywhere, but at the same time, nowhere..." she sat down on the bed, sobbing onto her knees. How come he was gone?! What was Quagmire doing?! Once Quagmire was dead, whom would she have left to blame...?
"... Salix..." Quistis sighed.
Salix looked up slowly, but before she could reach Quistis's silent yet beautiful ice queen face, her eyes fell upon a wrapper. She stood up, moving over slowly and picking up the wrapper. A condom wrapper.
"? I guess Saranie wasn't exactly halo-over-my-head Ellone or pretending- there's-a-halo-over-my-head Rinoa...?" Salix asked. She had indeed talked to Rinoa on the phone once long ago for a report, and seemed like she had the woman figured, as for Ellone, she loved Ellone to pieces, especially the way she was ready to throw herself into danger but not really exactly.
"... You know what that is?"
"Yeah, it's a condom... Trojan, I think... Too old, labels rubbed off... why?"
"Young lady, if you know what a condom is, you have some explaining to do!"
"... Eh? Look, I'm a teenager, ya can't hide these things from me..."
"It's a little hard to devise a way to when the girl your trying to hide it from is in the next room fulfilling a man's pleasures!" Quistis said, angry now.
"Quisty... Don't, okay? Besides, when I did ask mom about it, she handed me a condom and said 'study up, and remember this at all times', so nothing to be ashamed of... I wonder if maybe Squall and Saranie came back to the ship, and that's how it got here?" despite a gruesome thought of her aunt having sex, Salix was suddenly hyper about the condom wrapper.
To Salix's dismay, Quistis shook her head "No, Sal. That was more than likely from Irvine and Saranie... Selphie says he throws them out everywhere... I mean, well, that's how the ship was broken. Selphie threw Irvine into the control panel after he had a little game with Saranie... Tilba Lee is a very talented mechanic, you know?"
"... Rira, she was Saranie's cat?" Salix's eyes fell on another little picture, one that obviously Saranie took by holding the camera in one hand and squeezing her and the kittens face into the snap shot.
"Oh, yes. After Saranie's death... Seifer kind of adopted him."
"... I see... Quistis, could you please leave me alone? For a while, I mean? I have to contemplate this..."
Quistis nodded in agreement to Salix, walking over and kissing her forehead "you sure you'll be okay?" after a nod of reassurance from Salix, Quistis reluctantly left.
Break point.
"Not this again!" Salix screamed, looking around in the pitch-black world that surrounded her. No lights, no presence, just... 'black'.
"Oh yes, my dear... I'm afraid I haven't gotten through to you... Time is wasting, and you are in bed with a boy who might die at any second?"
"Just a second! You're going to answer my questions now?!" Salix asked eagerly, turning and running towards the voice. Though she dreaded to hear it, and it's words, she loved its familiarity all the same. The voice in the dark, like God leading Moses, this female well-mannered voice was like the words of commandments to Salix.
"... I shall... Please, what is it you must know that I have not told you?"
"... Are you just in my dreams, or are you a messenger?"
"... I am a messenger of the witches... Your aunt has sent me to be your guide..."
"So, I'm not dreaming all of this? I mean, I am, but all the same it's... real? Wait, my aunt?! Saranie?! Is she alive?! Where is she!?"
"... This, I cannot answer... You must find it... First, you must deal with your inner demon..."
"... Inner demon?!"
"... You have a power that's far greater than any witch I've ever seen... You must find a way to use such power as a weapon..."
"... Power!? What power?! What do you mean, witches?!"
"You, your father, your aunt... all witches... all of you, you're death my only come by the hand of a sorceress or witch... but, you, my dear, you and only you may be able to overcome such... You must stop the last sorceress..."
Continued.
Notes: Ow... well, my chest hurts, so I have really no clue where to go with this. I really get bad things go on with me when I write about the voice... itchy nose, chest pain, cuts start to hurt, I step on a cat... That's weird... Beware ze voice!