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Turn your hope to the gods, beg forgiveness -pray that it will come
There was a light headed sort of feeling that accompanied the gazes of people as they landed on her at the old woman's words. Growing more and more intense as they lingered in her silence.
Chihiro took a step back from all of the implications placed before her -things that started to make terrible, terrible since in wake of those five little words.
Bride of the Water God.
The clerk at the grocery that merely took her basket without words and refused her attempts at payment -sending a shop girl to take it to her home for her.
The priests at the shrine who bowed before her as she passed, muttering prayers in words too low to hear and yet she did so anyway.
Secrets and promises she was never meant to hear -uttered by the lips of none- that touched her ears, soft as whispers.
The eyes of the Dragon that rarely strayed from her form and the quiet curiosity in them, the difference in his gaze when it fell on her, and how it spoke of something more than nothingness.
Bride of the Water God.
"I think I would remember getting engaged to a Dragon, thank you very much." Chihiro replied with more assurance than she felt, her confident tone belaying the tightness in her chest.
Note: I'm very sorry It's taken so long to update. My computer wouldn't even turn on. It was a very troublesome thing indeed.