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Chapter 9: Star Gazing

The Earth was high in the sky, casting a faint glow upon the city below her window. The city had grown since the last time she had seen it. The streets were a winding maze that met in the middle at the city square, though it wasn't really a square, it was more like a circle, where the biggest stores were. The streets would make anybody, who was not familiar with the city, lost. But she knew that there were emergency exits and tunnels in place for any need for an evacuation, if necessary.

The city was really a beautiful place at night, and she would have been marveled by the sight, if only wasn't so flustered.

She knew that things hear on Gaea wouldn't be the same, it had been ten years, but she didn't think that things would be so different. Merle was married with two twin boys. Millerna was going to be the Queen of Asturia soon. Dryden was nowhere to be found. Chid was of an age that he should start looking for his bride. And Van had been married, though for a short time, and was to be again. Soon. And that was where her problem was. He had his choice of a bride for another four months before his advisers would choose a bride for him. She hadn't been expecting that. Truth be told, she didn't know what she was expecting, but it certainly wasn't that.

"What should I do?" she sighed. She had changed in to a warm nightgown that had been placed on her bed, and was sitting on her window ledge, looking out. She had been sitting at her window for a while just looking at the Earth and moon.

"Why don't you just listen to your heart?" startled Hitomi turned around to find a dark figure leaning against her closed, locked, door.

"Oh, it's just you, Sora." Said Hitomi, obviously relived that it was a friend, not foe, and turned back to look out the window "I am listening to my heart, but its telling me that I should stay hear with Van, but its also saying that I have to go back."

"So that complicates things a little bit."

"Just a little." She turned to face Sora, only to find that she was again alone in her room, the door still locked.

Well I hope that you liked these chapters, though they are a little short in comparison to some of the others, but I couldn't write more in them even if I wanted to.

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