Hey, my birthday was August 5th! I'm fifteen, the big one-five. Wish me Happy Birthday!
I don't know how long she held me, nor did I really need to know.
Before I knew, though, we were up, and she smiled to me.
"There are two different Asturi, correct?" She asked.
I nodded.
"Why do they have to be different? Are they not called the same thing?" She asked.
"They do different things, though," I said.
"They are both of the same entity," She stated.
"Asturi," She whispered.
Her eyes turned a slate gray.
"So, that does all of them?" I whispered, so that she didn't feel uncomfortable with my loudness.
"Yes. I can teach you how to get both of them together, and reduce the volume status, so that you are not irritated," She said.
I nodded.
She began telling me about how she had created the Asturi, and told me about all the connections around us. She spoke of the Asturi's purpose, and other things.
I listened to her, and all of the information soaked in slowly.
/Deidara/
I was freaking out. Amaya.. she had run off? I was immensely worried about her. It just...wasn't like Amaya. I had searched, but could not find her. Even Kaete and Kanna couldn't find her, nor could they contact her. At all. The thing that had bothered me the most, though, was that her eyes had been slate gray. She had also run faster than I had ever seen. So, I did what was natural.
I ran towards her direction.
Sooner or later, I realized that I was basically getting nowhere.
The snow had been flurrying, and if she even went up this way barefoot I would not find her. Her tracks were gone.
I made one of my birds and flew around, hoping that I might get a glimpse of her.
I flew until I got farther into the mountains, and then looked around solemnly. What if she had frozen to death? Or freezing?
I lost sight of what I was doing, seeing a glimpse of a tree, and then my bird crashed into a large cliff.
A tree?
My eyes widened.
A tree! In the mountains, snow!
In the frenzy of falling, I pulled my hair back, and adjusted the scope. Finding the tree, there was a small spring around it, but the grass was dying, and the tree was a ghastly black with a contrast of the palest ice. My eyebrows furrowed, seeing Amaya laying with her arms around the crooked trunk.
It was the smallest second, the most fleeting of glances. Then I fell faster and faster, not really registering that my clay broke the fall for me.
I saw her.
I found her.
Then she slipped away, out of my grasp, like she always has.
And I think that's why I love her.
/Amaya/
Ketai had taught me so much! Her warm embrace enveloped me once I had managed to get both Asturis.
"There is but one problem, Amaya," She said.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Well," She fluttered, and came to hold my face, tilting it up.
"You have one eye of green and one eye of purple," She said, frowning.
Frowning?
Ketai didn't frown...
She smiled, and seemed uncertain, but she had not frowned.
Not once.
"Nonetheless, you remember the height of sound in the Asturi?" She asked.
I nodded.
"Alright, all you have to do is imagine all of your senses as something breakable," She said.
I nodded.
"Now, the one that is sound, break some off of it," She said.
I nodded again.
"How is this?" She asked.
She was whispering.
"You're whispering," I said.
She smiled, "Right,"
"Now, you might want to break off a little bit of emotion, too, before they get the best of you," She said.
I did as I was told, and something was off about Ketai.
Her straight hair began curling, and the colors of her kimono had faded.
"Here we are," She said, handing me some fruit.
I ate it, enjoying the sweet taste, but something was off about this, too. Before, the fruit was the perfect balance of sweet and tang, but not it was only sickeningly sweet. I almost vomited, but the next bite was better.
With every bite it tasted better and better.
I looked up at Ketai, and she looked fine.
Maybe a trick of the light?
I stared for a moment, blinking.
Yes, just a trick of the light.
I took some time to consider the plot and made some altercations to it. Sorry for the wait(: