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“She seems a bit worried...”
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“Why do I always seem to wake up so sad? What am I dreaming about?” Her groan brings attention to her frustration as she sat up, rubbing her eyes in an attempt to dispel the lingering remnants of saddening emotions she felt. “It must be morning,” she says to herself, recognizing the dim light filtering through the window despite the shades being drawn. With resolve, she rises from her bed and approaches the door, hesitating briefly before grasping the handle. “I should try to be a little more happy. There’s nothing I can do to change what I am, but I could at least try to change how I act.” With a deep sigh, she opens the door and steps into the hallway, glancing over to Tai’s closed bedroom door noticing the layer of undisturbed dust. “He didn’t go inside last night. Does he ever?” She shakes her head, quickly dropping the thought as she walked down the halls at a quickened pace to the control room where she saw everyone there waiting for her. “Am I late?” She asks curiously.
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“Okay, just like we went over earlier...” She stops in the middle of the field and moves to kneel down in prayer with her hands near her heart causing the small orbs of light to glow steadily brighter, but no more than the light cast by the moon. “Souls that have departed from your bodies, your time has come. As goddess I allow you to rest easy. Leave up to the heavens and give heavy hearts their peace.” She keeps her eyes closed until a final gust of wind caused all of the orbs within the flowers to rise into the air. She opens her eyes and stares up at the sky just as the souls started to make their way up and fade into the star light above, her attention focused on a single orb of light that started to float downward. “That must be his soul.” She pulls her focus away from the glowing orb for a moment only to see a tall dark figure standing in the shadows. “What?” She stands, her body starting to freeze with fear as the figure grew closer, eventually seeing that it was a figure of a man dressed in heavy black robes and dark brown hair, his fair skin showing his light brown eyes as he walked closer, the foliage around him withering away.
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Shomei nudges Kaori away just before turning back to Aduro and crossing her arms in front of her to block a dark mass from hitting her. She then takes several arrows from a holster on her back and shoots at Aduro, irritated as his presence disappeared into a cloud of smoke and darted through the forest after Kaori, who had started running after she was pushed away.
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“I can’t hear you. Am I dying?” Her vision begins to fade as she closed her eyes slowly, enveloped by a peaceful silence, even as Tai continued to call out to her.
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