Thanks to my ONE REVIEWER, DarkDragonX. Really though, that whole middle section of the last chapter was supposed to be in italics. Y'know, like a flashback? If anyone has any tips on how to get to upload italics and dividers and stuff like that, drop me an e-mail at or put it in a review. Thanks all!
Saturos: Oh yeah, Flowers doesn't own Golden Sun.
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The Lost Age of Men
Chapter 2
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Even though it had been 10 years since that horrible night, Sam still thought about it. He thought about his beautiful wife with her long silvery, blue hair, and entrancing blue eyes. Her name was Sirella, a Mercury Adept.
Lydia was almost an exact clone of Sirella. The same silvery, blue hair, the same face. The only thing that belonged to him was her eyes, which were the brown of his own, common in Venus Adepts. The couple was unusual, as Mercury Adepts, especially Lemurians, tended not to mingle with other Adepts. But Sirella was different. When he met her on a business trip to Lemuria, he quickly fell in love. Sirella decided to stow away on his ship and leave Lemuria, away from living forever in the doldrums of eternity. When, to his surprise, she came out of the ship's hold, he shortly asked her to marry him, regardless of her age. She looked young…but you can never really tell with those Lemurians. They returned to his village in the country and had a baby girl.
It almost pained him to look at Lydia because she looked so much like Sirella. But every time he looked in her eyes, he saw himself reflected back, a reminder that this was his life now, and that Lydia was the most important thing he had now.
Sam was now the owner of a fine blacksmith shop in the town of Sacor. (A/N: For my purposes, it is a little north of where Kalay should be) Sacor was a nice, small town in the middle of Angara with a mix of Adepts and normal humans in its population. It was the perfect place to raise a child, so when he ran from his burning village, he stayed put. It had many businesses, so he learned to be a blacksmith, then inherited the whole smithy from the previous owner when he decided to leave to explore the world. It turned into almost an office job for him, because he had hired many apprentices and employees over the years. But he still guided his apprentices and took on many jobs, mostly because he loved what he did.
"Hey, Sam!" One of his employees, and his good friend, Jake, called him over. He set down his tools and walked over.
"What seems to be the problem?"
"Well, it seems that our comp'ny cupboard's empty! What about lunch?"
Sam laughed. Leave it to Jake to always be thinking about his stomach, he thought.
"Send somebody out to the market, if you're starving" he said aloud.
"I dunno, man, we're swamped with orders this morning," came the reply
"Not too busy for lunch…"
"Oh, but I've gotta eat to work. You could just send Lydia. She's not doing anything right now,"
"But…," Sam trailed off. She was twelve years old. Most certainly old enough to go get food from the market. She was always helpful around his blacksmith shop, but he was always hesitant to send her into the city without supervision. What if something happened? He couldn't bear to loser her. But he couldn't think of anything that could possibly happen in the crowded market. It was a very safe city, and she knew many people that lived here.
"Well, all right. I'll give her some money and she can get us something to eat." He walked off to send Lydia on her errand.
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That's it for now. Hope you enjoyed. I'm pretty sure of what I'm going to do for the next chapter, so I should have up pretty soon. Hopefully before the weekend's over b/c I have to go to school.
Anyways, Review!!!! Constructive criticism is most definitely welcome. And if you don't like it, feel free to tell me.
Saturos: Well, you know how it is. If everyone hates the story, FoM probably won't want to waste her time writing more.
Whatever….Reviewing, we are.