Chapter Five: Aura
After hearing the urgent message from Yuan, which turned out not to be very important, just that he could not find a way to Derris-Kharlan, Kratos went back into the inn and began to climb the stairs without speaking a word to anyone. When he opened the door to the girl's room, he stared at what he saw. The girl was no longer in the bed where she had been the last few days, but was instead sitting sideways in the window, with her knees pulled up to her chest, her back resting against the wall. She was staring outside, but turned and looked when he came in.
"Oh." she said. "It's you." She looked at him as if waiting for him to say something, but when he didn't, she said, "Sorry if I...sounded rude just now."
"It's...fine." Kratso replied. "But...you're awake..."
"I woke up just this morning." she said quietly. "I'm sorry I pretended to be asleep, but I didn't really feel like talking to anyone and I needed to think."
"Well, do you wish to talk to anyone now?" Kratos asked hopefully.
"I guess I could use some company." the woman replied. They talked for the good part of an hour, and Kratos told her everything about they're adventures and fight against Mithos' reighn. He also found out from her that she had lost all of her memories. She couldn't remember who she was or where she had come from.
"I can't even remember my own name." she admitted. "So I guess I can't tell you what you can call me..." After a paues, she said, "But Tsukasa called me Aura...Could that be what my name is?"
"Hmm..."Kratos thought for a moment.
"For some reason, I know it;s not, but...that's what you can call me until I remember my real name...So I guess my new name...is Aura." Kratos nodded.
"Aura."