Chapter 4: Repressed Memories
Hikari awoke to the sounds of birds outside her prison window, it was the first thing of any sort of positive she had seen or heard in the last month of her containment. She sighs to herself and gets out of bed, Peering through the window she spots the birds on a tree just outside the prison walls, and beyond them was the Ancient City of Pentill, it is said that the ruins are the last remnants of Centriel's past.
A guard knocks on her door with his club and slides the filth they call breakfast through the small hole near the ground on the door; he grunts something about a visitor waiting for her. Hikari looks at the sludge hungrily, it had been days since she was able to eat the food without throwing it back up and she was confident that she could hold it down again, she needed the energy.
The guard comes by again to take the plate away and lead the prisoner to the visitors' hall. Hikari quietly falls into step with the guard as they navigate the labyrinth-esque hallways of the prison. If it had not been for the blasted collar around her neck she would have escaped long ago, but as long as it was restraining her, she behaved the warden smiles behind a camera lens as it focuses on the angel.
The Furer's young secretary sat quietly in the chair in Visitors' Hall. She had managed to get the Furer to give her a day's vacation,
'It wasn't that hard, he's been awfully excited lately and has hardly been in the office after we got that phone call from the labs,' she thought to herself. Hikari enters the room and sits down at the chair on the other side of the protection barrier that split the room length wise, other prisoners were talking to their families, mostly idle chitchat. Hikari coughed politely and snapped Yasumi out of her little daydream.
"Oh! Oh lord Hikari, it is good to see you again," after the startle she quieted down, calling a prisoner by her official title was a good way to wind up on the same side of the barrier that Hikari was on.
"Shhh," Hikari made the quiet notion with her index finger, apparently the same thought struck her too "I remember seeing you at the meeting that day, and a few times before the war started in Skandraenon, who are you and why are you here?" the girl seemed to break down for a moment she smiles and apologizes.
"It's not everyday your own Mother forgets her own daughter," said the girl calmly, a tear or two ran down her face, she held up a locket around her neck. This hit Hikari like a title wave, she looked closely at the girl and pulled back in surprise, she started to cry silently
"Oh Yasumi, I thought I'd lost you so long ago," she wanted to hug her daughter so bad but could not. "After your real parents came back to claim you, I took them to court, I had the right to be your adopted parent because they left you on the street but then I got wind that you…you…" she pauses to wipe her face.
"That I Ran away?" Yasumi smiles,
"That's, my little girl, always taking things into your own hands" Hikari smiles and laughs. "I never understood why you didn't come back to the Moonlite,"
"Because I was rescued in the desert by Furer Brad," Yasumi explained. This to hit Hikari hard, her hair seemed to float as if pushed by some sort of sound wave by this information.
"WHAT!" She shouted in astonishment, several other visitors started to stare, Hikari did not care she stood up in anger and beat her fist into the table. Suddenly realizing that she had done this with the collar on her, she prepared to pass out. With her eyes clenched shut and her teeth gritted, several seconds passed and she opened her eyes and looked around…nothing was happening. Yasumi smiles and holds up a small remote, she had managed to lift it off the Furer while he was on the way out of the office this morning. Hikari points at for a moment, sweat drops, then sits down again calmly.
"…this is going to be along story you better stay sitting," she smiles and nods to the guards, they reluctantly disappear into the next room, and the other visitors all get up and leave, only Hikari and her adopted daughter remained in the large room.