Part 5: Navi and Lillith

Navi was walking around the farm as she stretched her legs from sleeping on the hard floor of Shinji and Asuka's farmhouse. It was crude in size, but, they would need some more permanent shelter in the coming weeks if their numbers increase in size. Over the couple of days, she had gotten to know several of the Angels and who they were as a people. Some were still pretty freaked out by Rei's sudden show of power that had exploded out of her from years of raw repressed emotions. It was like one of the Angels had said after they had learned of Rei's origins. "She had been a product of violation and keeping it in would hurt her. She needed time to heal both body and soul before she knew what to do next with her life."

However, Rei had started to speak about it in sections. Nevertheless, Shinji had known more about it than anyone else. He had seen the deep dark secret that his father had used on Rei to leave her well vacant in places while violent in others.

Even one of the Angel's had offered to do some cultural ceremony to help Rei cope. Kinda of like a baptism, but, Rei would talk about it in time. That was why she was walking over to see Lillith.

To call Lillith a clone of Rei was an insult. Lillith was completely different; she was open, even shy at times. But, it was the markings that Lillith had traced onto her arms with a permanent marker that made her stand out. They were beautiful, like the Hina symbols of her mother's homeland of India. But they did look a little alien though that was probably due to the cultural references of the Angels.

"Lillith," Navi called out as she walked down the side of a collapsed wall of what used to be part of some building that was by the river. The Angel turned to face her, the short blue hair had been cut so that it was closer to her scalp and was slicked down, leaving the Angel with a very Tomboyish look to her.

"Oh, Hey Navi, " Lillith said as she stood up. What Navi couldn't get over was how, well, sleek this girl's body was. She did have breasts and curved buttocks, but, she seemed a little more, well, Navi couldn't place the word but, different. Looking more like of a swimmer's body frame than a regular girl's pubescent body.

"So, how are things?" Navi's words started to sink in as the Angel's red eyes started to focus on her.

"Not so bad. I miss my home. I remember the clouds, how blue they were. How the sky had a tone of redness that you could see day in a day out. Red like the eyes of my mother's," Lillith said closing her eyes letting a small trail of tears escape from them.

Navi took a step back and slowly sat down near the one time Angel. "I know that you must hate my progenitors for doing the damage they did your world but..." Navi put her hand on Lillith's shoulder.

"War spares no-one. It harms all who it touches and grazes," Navi said with her knowledge about the world. "No one is left innocent for long. But, it is the children that bear the brunt of the pain that their parents cause." Lillith was still crying but had somewhat felt loss. "Home sick, yeah I know the feeling. I have been looking for a Buddhist temple in the area to at least pray at." Navi said as she touched Lillith's shoulder.

"At least this is your world. I've just been stranded here," Lillith said as she focused a small octagonal AT field and started digging at the concrete with her hand.

"Yeah, but, a tree is a tree, the sky is a sky, the sun is a sun. Sometimes it's the small things we miss most," Navi said. "Three years of summer camp. Trust me home baked cookies fetched a premium just for the memories even though they weren't cooked by your mother." Lillith turned towards her with a strange look on her face.

"Cookies, are they some sort of food?" The Angel asked.

"Yes they are, sweet calming and warm," Navi said towards the Angel.

"Like Ankun. It's what you would call a type of bread," Lillith said giving her limited knowledge of humanity to Navi. "I remember how my mother would make rods of the stuff for our celebrations. How the spices and sweet smell would stay on her form." That was when Lillith laid her head down on her curled up knees.

"Hey, how about we track down some cooking supplies and see if we can make some of this Ankun?" Navi asked looking at Lillith. The tears had slowed down, but the dried trails could be seen on the girl's face.

"You would make a food that might be poisonous to yourself for me?" Lillith asked looking at her.

"Yeah, I would, I mean you, Angels essentially have the same layout of us, just some minor tweaks here and there with the hair and eyes," Navi said tracing Lillith's face with her fingers.

"My face on my original body was different, it was more oval." There was a moment of sadness in her voice. "I just want to have it back."

"Okay, loosing your face and being stuck in a new body would freak anyone out," Navi said as she held her hand out and produced a double octagon AT field in her hand. "For me, it is having these superpowers." Lillith looked at Navi's hand.

"How long, how long have you had these powers?" Lillith asked looking at Navi's mocha colored hand.

"I don't know, a while since I came out of the Blood Sea. I thought it would go away but..."

"They have been developing." Lillith looked at her hand with the chunk of dug up concrete in it. "Then that means that..." with a rush Lillith stood up before she finished her sentence. "How good are you at making a field?"

There was a moment as Navi wondered what was going on.

"Ah, you kinda of saw how big of one I can make," Navi said as Lillith snaked her arm under her shoulder. "Okay, I'm going to fly you over to the farm. We need to talk about this now with the others."

"What?" Navi said aloud.

"I can fly with my field, don't worry. It won't hurt, just prop your foot on top of mine."

"You can fly, as in up, up and away, fly?" Navi's jaw was starting to drop.

"Yes, but, more complex." Suddenly Lillith had hovered up several inches, but, Navi had been left on the ground staring up at the now floating Angel.

"Why didn't you hold on?" Lillith asked looking at Navi.

"I'm just a little shocked. How about we just walk over to Shinji and you explain on the way.

"Oh, then you are not used to flying?" Lillith asked looking at Navi in the eyes.

"Nooo, I was born to walk on the ground, but, flying is my furthest option, unless A) it has four walls, B) has a motor guiding it along," Navi said putting her foot down.

"You believe in mechanical flight. Okay, I understand. It is just the way of your culture," Lillith said finally walking on the ground.

"Okay, we have a lot to learn about each other culturally," Navi said as she trudged up the slop and back to the campsite.

"Yes, we have much to learn," Lillith said as she reached out hovered a little to glide over the crest of the hill.

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