Seeking Faces (PSO2: New Genesis Fanfic)

Seeking Faces

"She looks like you." The spoken words remained a distant memory, as distant as the memory of the colors of the setting sun that particular day, or days given the fact one day of childhood blended into another and those words might have been spoken more than once.

"Like me?" Garoa retorted. "Come now. She's too beautiful for that. Like her mother."

"No. She looks like her father. A female version of her father."

"Well, she's inherited your personality."

"Be that as it may..."

Aina recollected little regarding the conversation. The words "be that as it may" might not have been said at all, but the part she recollected the least was the face of the one her father said she was like personality-wise. After all, she'd inherited her father's coloring, so seeing her mother's face seemed an impossible task particularly given the fact there was one topic that remained off-limits in the village—Garoa's wife.

At least, she assumed they'd been married, yet she didn't remember.

She didn't think about said conversation much either, given the fact one day faded into the other and how she wanted to be an official ARCs operative like her father. Freezing up as she did, Dozer asking her to closer her eyes and think about what she wanted to protect the most brought the conversation back. The conversation remained on the tip of her tongue as she spoke with Mallon and the newest Meteoran to fall from the sky.

Yet, the memory remained quiet, as both came after—after whatever happened to her mother. What Aina did know has she now held in her heart something she wished to protect, though what she wanted to protect was gone now, just like her mother.