Guy stood knelt stone stiff an apple in hand, his eyes fixated on the little dark haired child, not entirely certain of what he was looking at. He had just found his way back into town after his latest job. Apparently big things had gone down, some for the better others for the worst. Yager much to his surprise was nowhere to be found, he never thought an introvert like him had belonged in Ceres to begin with nor did he think he had the courage to leave but he was gone now, no one either knew where or why and for others the name Yager didn't s much as ring a bell.
According to word on the streets Dead Beats had been taken down like a rabid dog in the most brutal way possible. All he had to say to that was good riddance, the last thing they needed was a bunch of upstarts trying to prove a point. He knew personally that nothing good ever came from messing around with the Blondies and the loss of his arm was a living testament of that. Now he was hearing about new development plans to merge Ceres with Midas, the very thought seemed ludicrous but apparently Fate was hell bent on seeing it happen.
He sighed, just when he thought one surprise wasn't enough he comes across this.
"Tank you mister," Chatter beamed taking her apple from his hand.
"Chatter bad girl," the evident mother that rounded the corner to recover her child had Guy going into a moment of cardiac arrest.
Riki?
A subtle stab of pain in his chest had him pulling his hat down lower as he got to his feet. What the hell was he thinking Riki had died in Dana Bahn hadn't he? And he had been the cause of it. He watched as the woman pulled the red apple from her daughter's hands and gave her a fresh one from the brown bag she was carrying.
The scowl on her face, the dark hair that fell down to her elbow, those obsidian eyes, it looked so much like Riki, it simply had to be him. But it wasn't.
"I apologize if she caused you any trouble, Chatter can be clumsy sometimes," Rena bowed slightly as Chatter bit into the apple, the only fruit she or her brother ever ate.
"No um it was nothing," he stated finding it hard not to stare.
Obviously realizing it, she sheepishly inquired, "is something wrong?"
Averting his eyes he replied rather distantly, "no…its just that you reminded me of someone."
She smiled at his words, "I get that a lot. Are you new in town?"
"No," he replied turning his eye on the baby who he assumed loved apples quite fondly, "just stopping by. I'll be gone by night fall."
"Oh," she turned her eyes on Chatter who was offering her a bite which she smoothly declined causing the babe to pout until she yielded, "the name's Rena and this little klutz is Chatter. You have my thanks. Be sure to travel safely now," she turned to leave on this note as she took her daughter's hand into hers, "and if it's worth anything. You remind me of someone too. Though I can't remember who I suspect it must have been someone I cared for deeply."