Back from Florida!(and really wishing I was still there, because I have to go to school tomorrow and I didn't do any of my homework so I'm going to be up until 3am, oh well)

Regular updates will resume as of now(hopefully).

"Ultear?" asked a pink-haired girl, sitting on a beach, watching a woman who was standing in the surf. She had her eyes closed, and her skirt was waving in the wind, with the waves crashing around it.

It was three months after Tenrou Island. Meredy often wondered what could of happened differently. What if she and Ultear were just a little closer, and they got killed by Acnologia too? Or what if Ultear had died before Meredy could save her? Thinking of that, she shuddered. It had happened in an ocean. Meredy established a Sensory Link.

Just in case.

Ultear looked over at her, smiling slightly. "You aren't still worried I'm going to leave you again, are you? I promised I'd never do that. And I try not to break promises." Meredy felt a sort of calm wash over her, as she walked over to stand by Ultear, shivering a bit at the cold touch of the water. She looked over at Ultear curiously, as wind and the waves grew taller all of the sudden and the former Grimoire Heart mage raised both hands in the air, sighing peacefully. Meredy felt it too. Ultear was saluting them. The fairies who had been lost to the sea- Grey, Juvia, all of them- the reason the two of them finally had a path in life, one that had meaning, without relying on hatred and revenge. She still had to ask, though.

"Ul, what are you doing?"

Ultear's eyes softened, as she looked out at the vast horizon, punctured by the rapidly rising waters.

"Hailing the waves."

Ultear broke that promise, some seven years later.

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Meredy liked walking on beaches. There weren't many people on this one. It was stormy and the waters were rocky, and lightning flashed threateningly in the distance.

There were two persistent little kids, determined to save the multiple starfish washing up on the beach, unable to flop back into the water. Meredy stood for a second, watching them. Two girls. One had short hair. The other had black hair. The Maguilty Sense mage kept walking.

Hiking up her already-short dress, Meredy waded into the ocean, waves pelting her legs with icy-cold water. The sand beneath the waves was surprisingly soft, but with a few shells floating here and there. Far out, she could barely squint to see the outline of a great tree. She breathed deeply, letting the torrent of air flow through her

It was there. As long as it was there, they were all there. Scattered in the wind, maybe only in spirit, but the warmth was always there. Well, it hadn't always been there. It had vanished, and then nearly flickered away again with the attack of the demons.

She felt a tugging on her dress. Looking down, there was the short-haired girl, having abandoned the starfish in favor of the apparently more interesting teenager standing in the sea. The water nearly reached up to the girl's shoulders.

"What're you doing?"

But it had reappeared. And then hadn't vanished again.

"Hailing the waves."

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