Authors note: I've decided only focus on one setting per chapter for now, because it makes for easy character development.

I'm going to start with G-Garden, for the fact that it has the main characters of the game and story in it. I recently

changed the title to ~Chasing a Trail of Smoke and Reason~ It's a quote from the song Third Eye By Tool. Great song as Tool's

always are. I don't know how I'm going to incorporate it into the story but it seems like it fits.

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Kennsington sat at the lunch table, pondering his latest visit from the sorceress. [The Third?

What the hell does that mean?] "Hey. Kenny." He looked up from his tray to see Carrie and Spencer with

an abnormally big stack of paper. "You want to help us pass these out they're new methods of junctions."

Shaking his head no, Kenn said, "No I have to get some sleep." And then, taking the form that they

insisted he read he headed to the dormintories to get the rest that he needed. Crawling into the top bunk

in the room that he, Squall, Rissite, and Gerraide shared. Upon drifting to sleep, he had actuall dreams.

That is, untill the sorceress showed up again.

{Hello, again}

[You're back . I haven't figured out what the third means. How is this?]



Prior to this week, every clue given to him was figured out within an hour or so. This week the clues

were actuall orders, rather than the previous ones. Before he only got clues to everyday things. Why now was

he being instructed?

{The First now holds great power-The Second desires it-The Third...}

[The third what?]

{The Griffin and the Lion will soon meet.}

[Siefer and Squall..]

{You must say the words}

[What words? I don't know what you mean.]

{Say "Look over there"}

[OK. But what of the third.}

Waking up to the sound of Rissite watching television at an obxnoxiously loud volume, Kenn swung his

legs over the side of the bed. "You know you sleep way too much. You need to get out more." Rissite said

while helping herself to an enourmous bowl of ice cream. "Where's Irvine. He said he was going to fix my

gunblade." "It's broken?" "Not technically but i'm going to get him to lessen the weight of the trigger's

pull." "Oh. He's with Squall at the Target range. Let me come with you." "Alright."