Case 2: The Stringless Puppet and the First Step

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In a dark and cold void, a young girl walks. Alone and shivering, she keep walking forward. In the midst of her journey, she found a warm flame. The flame flickers as if inviting the girl to its side. As if captivated by the flame, the girl slowly approached it.

Warm... It's warm....

In the middle of the harsh coldness, the flame brings warmness and comfort. The girl extend her hands, wishing to hold the flame close. And as if the flame understand her intention, it obediently float to her hands. As the girl feels more of its warmness, a gentle smile started to form in her mouth. In that warmness, she slowly move the flame to her chest and closed her eyes.

However, suddenly she felt something unusual from the flame. The warmness of the flame starts to grow weaker. As she opened her eyes and looked at the flame, the flame started to shrink. The girl was startled.
Seeing the flame slowly being extinguished, she gave her all to protect the flame from being put out. However, no matter what she do, the flame is getting smaller and smaller. She tried to cover the flame, but it's all just in vain. In the end, the last spark of the flame flickered, and it forever disappeared to the void.
The girl fell on her knees. Her eyes look hollow, as she falls into despair. Without her realize, a tear fall from her eye. And in a second, more tears flowed down from her cheeks.


But soon after, she could feel another warmness from her back. The warmness that exceed the small flame that was just extinguished. The girl turn around and saw another flames. As she turn to her side, she noticed yet another flames, and before she realized, she was surrounded by countless of warm flames. Immediately after, the flames lit up a blinding light simultaneously. The girl immediately covered her eyes.

Warm.... It's very warm.....

The warmness could be felt everywhere.....

The girl opened her eyes and saw a beautiful flower field. The darkness and coldness from before completely disappeared, as if they were a lie to begin with. The flames that surrounded her have now become bright lights. The lights shine brightly, and as if it's a miracle, her eyes are not dazzled or blinded by them. The lights emit gentle, warm and kind atmosphere.

Among the countless lights, there are two lights that stood by each others before her. The girl do not wish to lose the lights and warmness like before. She extend her hands and try to reach the lights, and as if the lights understood her, they reach for her hands.

A platinum haired girl slowly opened her eyes, awakened from her slumber. As she tried to get off from her bed, she stumbled down as if her legs lost their power. She put her hands on the bed's side to support her as she try to stand up.

As the girl cast her gaze out of her window, she saw a beautiful afternoon plains welcoming her awakening. Soon after, the girl exited to the terrace. The breeze with flower petals blows past her hair. The young woman stood in silence as the gentle breeze caress her cheek, and as the flower petals flown higher to the sky.


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Finally... the time has come.

"Jake, are the equipments ready?" [Ian]

"Yeah. Let's go!" [Jake]

In one of the company's hallway, Jake and I carried our equipments to our car. Finally, the time has come.... for our very first mission.

After we became agents, we were divided into groups. Each group consist of two agents. I was grouped with Jake, while Holly was grouped with Sheema. Jake and I are now partners.

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