The sun rose the next morning. A bright day indeed, and warm as well. The temperature was high for the day. A bewildered Jet stumbled from behind a rock.
"Ugh, what the Hell happened?" He wondered as he wandered back to the camp as best he could. Still dizzy and a bit fatigued. His neck ached some too. He must have slept all wrong on it. From what he could guess he fell and knocked his head, and blacked out. He wondered what Virginia would say to him when he got back only just now. Too bad there was nothing at the camp the two set last night. "Just great. Where the heck did she run off to?" He remembered seeing Rock City and thought she went there looking for him, so he went off to the city as well.
Rock City was nothing spectacular. It was just as much like any other town. It had been formed only a year ago by some travelers who found the area rich for farming. It quickly boomed to a city. By Filgaia's standards at least. Yes, it was bigger than most other towns.
There were people all over the place as he stumbled around. His eyes looking for the girl in the soft purple blouse. Where did she get off to?
"Excuse me, sir." He turned to the woman. It was Virginia! "I was wondering if you, saw a man with silver hair?"
"Uh, what?"
"Oh, I guess not. Sorry to bother you." And she turned and walked off. He stood there in silence. What just happened?
He made a quick sprint to a barrel of water the city used to put out fires. He did not look any bit different. Except, no, wait. His hair was not gray indeed. It was black. What the heck happened?
He became bewildered. His body trembled in fear. What the Hell happened in just a night? Why was his hair, not his hair? Everything else about him was the same. Except the hair color. Right? He did not feel any different. Nothing else was different, except of course, all the other places he had hair.
"Hey, did you hear?" Jet glanced to a local who was addressing another native.
"No, what?" The other questioned.
"Last night the ruins to the south emitted some sort of light. When people went to check it out, they, found something amazing."
"Oh, like what?"
"A man, who was able to create water, and vegetation!"
"No way."
"It's true! They found some sort of guy with gray hair. He could do all these impossible things, and, he can speak to the guardians! He must be a fated messiah!"
"Gray hair?" Jet muttered. "Nah, it couldn't have any connection to me." Jet realized though, that the black hair hid his identity. Not even Virginia knew him at a glance, and that meant, that he did not have to run around with her anymore. No, he never had to be worried about being a criminal and had a new life as well. That made a grin creep onto his face.
Meanwhile, across the city was Virginia. All alone, and without Jet. She was worried that he did not bother to return. She knew eh wanted to leave her, but she also knew he was not the type to go and simply run off in the middle of the night leaving her with no food. She fell asleep waiting for him to come back, and thought that maybe he came back during that time, slept maybe, and headed out early to scout the area. She went looking, and found Rock City. She figured he was here, but there has been no sign of him yet.
She looked everywhere too, and found nothing. She might just have to take it a bit further and start asking people.
"Excuse me, sir." She walked up to a black haired man. "I was wondering, if you had seen a man with gray hair?"
"Uh, what?"
"Oh, guess not. Sorry to bother you." And she let the man she was looking for slip past her fingers.
"Sir?" She caught another man's attention around the corner. "Have you seen a man with gray hair?"
"Gray hair? Yeah, I did just this morning it was amazing!"
"Huh? So you saw Jet? Where is he? I've been looking all over this morning."
"You're a friend of that guy? Jet you called him? We've just been calling him a messiah."
"Messiah?"
"Yeah, he was sent by the guardians to deliver us from our lives of rationing water and hoping our crops grow. He can make water and grow plants in mere seconds! It was amazing!"
"Where, did you see him do this? I can't say, it sounds like Jet, but, the gray hair. Was he a young man?"
"Yes, he was pretty young looking now that I think about it."
"His location?"
"At the ruin outside town. I think they call it Heaven's Gate or something."
"Thank you for your time." And she darted off.
