she's gone away
Character: Anne Summers
Summary: And left a gap behind.
To disappear had been easy.
She had simply thrown the important things she could not bear to miss into a suitcase and left the country. This was the only thing she could do. The rivalry between her and Helena Force had grown too far because they were both geniuses on the same field and there was no reason for her to stay at the same place where the silver-haired woman was as well because this could not end well – two women with great talent and equally witty minds would clash at some point.
To disappear was the only way to prevent a showdown between Scarlet and Silver Hands.
So Anne Summers had disappeared on a sunny day in spring, boarding the train to Lionnenburg and from this city, she wandered off to Creta, to a country where no concurrence would make her doubt her abilities. She had lost to Silver Hands so many times in so many ways because Scarlet was never someone meant for battles. Neither was Silver Hands but the so-called Miracle Alchemist is indeed a miracle worker and when she saw the need to do something, she did never allow anyone to stop her from going through with it.
Scarlet knew that only a coward would run away from such a petty rivalry but she also knew that she was a coward compared to all those women and men who fearlessly went a path which – and all of them knew this – might very well kill them one day. And she knew that while she healed poor farmers in Creta, never giving her name or her former occupation, her rival was healing an entire country and she felt … remorse but she could not go back because Amestris was no longer duty.
She had given up the hospital, had left it to Helena Force and she would never return to claim it back because this would be the final proof of her incompetence.