Hello all (meaning my two readers)! I welcome you back and hope that you don't eat me for the long wait. No seriously... I've known readers to do that... eat authors I mean... I'm serious.

Anyway! I do not own Tales of Symphonia nor do I own the characters Lloyd and Raine or any of the places they visit.

I did name the tree though!

Excerpt from the writings of Chronicler Athos: (Circa 331 FS)

Raine had been wandering, hidden from history's view, for an unknown amount of time (at least 200 years). But during the summer of 331 FS (Following Salvation) she reentered life and is said to have had a meeting with Lloyd. Exactly what they spoke of at this meeting is unknown, however, speculations abound.

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Lloyd sat beneath the cool, dark shadow cast by Ben. It was hot out, hotter than usual. Even for summer. Despite this though Lloyd himself was not hot. He sat there, under Ben's large shadow, dressed in the same red coat he had worn long, long ago. By normal rights, he should be hot. However the shadow cast by Ben was unnaturally cool, almost as if Lloyd were sitting under it in late fall.

And I know you all care about this very much so I'll just move on…

At the same time that Lloyd was basking in giant shadows, Raine was tripping her way through a little traveled mountain pass. Like Lloyd, she wore the same bright orange coat she had worn during their adventure together so very long ago. She cursed, quietly, at a passing fox when it scared her and she stumbled somewhat.

His arms stretched high above his head and the faint 'pop' from his fingers indicated that his stretch had been successful.

She tripped again, this time not catching herself, and hit the ground. She cursed at both herself and the rock that tripped her before dusting herself off and getting back up.

Lloyd looked up when he heard a curse and was surprised when he saw a very old, familiar face standing up and dusting herself off. "Raine? Raine!" Lloyd jumped to his feet and raced over to where the half elf was and pulled her into a bear hug. Needless to say, Raine was surprised. Even though the two had traveled together for a good… bit of time (writer's note: I am FAR too lazy to find out exactly how long… if you want to know, play it again! Mya!) they had never been all that close.

Mind you… being isolated under a giant tree for years… you'll hug anybody. "Raine, oh Martel it's good to see you!"

"L-Lloyd! Uh hello. I see you're doing well?"

"As good as can be expected! I'm immortal, but all that really entails is that I get to live under this tree forever and watch everyone I care about die. Not only that, this tree I happen to be stuck under is in the middle of freaking nowhere so I can't talk to ANYone. Do you know that I've taken to talking to Ben? He's a good listener, really he is-"and Lloyd just rambled on. The pair walked over till they were right next to the trunk of Ben and took seats across from each other. Raine, prepared as always, brought a picnic basket and took out two lunchmeat sandwiches. She handed one to Lloyd and he took it graciously (he hadn't eaten for… ever it seemed like).

Then he looked at it questioningly, "Did you make this?"

"Of course I did Lloyd! Who do you think would have?"

He took a longer look at it and then shrugged, "I suppose even you can screw up lunchmeat," and took a bite. "Hey! It's not bad!"

Raine smiled, "I've been practicing for a while now. I think I'm getting pretty good myself."

Excerpt from the writings of the writings of Chronicler Athos: (Circa 331 FS)

Following the meeting Raine returned to the town of Iselia for the first time in over a century. She was welcomed as a hero and eventually set up a clinic in the town. It became famous worldwide and was known as the best. From all over the world people came for cures to their ailments and she did so with no pay. Any payment she received was in food donations and she only kept enough of that to feed herself, the rest she donated right back to the most needy.

Raine became loved the world over.

YAY CHAPTER TWO!

I hope you liked it all (again... two people, LOVE YOU BOTH!).

RoyalFanatic: I'll tell you right now that the historian writing this all down in... Completely unimportant. That's right. He has nothing do with the story AT ALL. I just wanted to make this story to flip back and forth between a 'historic' viewpoint and the basic third person (seen when Lloyd and Raine interact). I'll have to apologize as well as all the chapters will be shortish. Some may get longer, and I'll try to do so, but it just won't happen all the time. Sorry!

Eternum123: It's not really that I'm not a FAN of all the other characters... I just REALLY like LloydRaine. Oh and you don't have to worry about me being intimidated by bad reviews... if anything those would encourage me to write even more just to piss those people off! MWA HA HA!