They walked into the restaurante and sat at their usual table. Helena, the store's owner, served drinks at a bar near them and was singing. She'd a beautiful voice.

"So good to see you once again," she rang, "I'd thought that you were hiding, and you'd thought that I had run away, chasing the tail of Dogma."

Seeing the SeeDs arrive she continued while walking over to them, "I opened my eyes and there we were."

Wlaking over to the table with a pitcher of lemonade, Nida's favorite., "So good to see you once again."

The small fair-skinned girl next to her joined in, for appearantly, she had heard the song before. She was about 9 with watery gray-blue eyes and a fragile, innocent look to her.

And Helena picked the little girl with her free arm as they both exclaimed, "I thought that you we hiding from me, and you'd thought that I had run away.."

Alec adored the two, their wonderful cheery singing, and their happy-go-lucky demeanor.

And they, like all other regulars of the restaurante, knew the line and nearly the whole building sang along.

"CHASING A TRAIL OF SMOKE AND REASON."

"Hey he stopped staring for a second there." Quistis noted to Xu, pionting when Alec looked at the smal girl with the long blonde hair.

Alec was engaged in conversation with the owner and the topic of family came up.

"That your daughter?"

"No. my niece."

"Snow, was it."

"Yes. your uniform, It's Garden, right. My son is in Garden. "

"What's your last name? Maybe I know him."

"Aentrearie