The Girl who heard The Bard

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That night Hana was so happy she wasn't able to sleep! Naomichi went to check up on her every now and then, and every single time she would pretend she was asleep to not make her father worried. He knew she was faking, but thought it was cute, so he just went to sleep. Next morning, Naomichi went to Hana's room and tried to wake her up. "Let me sleep you dirty slime" she said, still asleep. "Hey, don't make this old man feel bad!" he Replied. Hana opened one of her bright green eyes and stared at her father for a while, before remembering what they were going to do that day. She got up from her bed in an instant and got ready to go out and buy her lyre! "Hurry up dad! Please! "she said impatiently. " Okay okay!! Geez! "he ran towards the door and locked it behind him. 

They started walking over to Marjorie's shop to acquire Hana's lyre. "Good morning lady, do you happen to know Marjorie? The owner of the shop?" asked Hana to a very young looking lady. "That happens to be me! What do you need?!" she responded with energy. "Wait... You're Marjorie!? You look so young to own such a big and old shop!!!" said Hana without realizing she was a 10 year old making 150k mora in a single day. "Ara, a smooth talker" replied Marjorie blushing. "Because of that I might give you a discount, you mischievous girl! Tell me what you're looking for!" she added. "I'm looking for a lyre!" said Hana excited. Out of nowhere, she felt like someone was looking at her and turned around, but saw nothing. She turned back around to face Marjorie and thought nothing of it. "Oh no! I sold my last lyre a few days ago! The next couple of lyres will arrive in about 2 weeks, sorry!" said Marjorie disappointed. 

Hana felt really sad, she was almost about to cry, but she contained herself, especially because she felt someone watching her again. This time she didn't turn around. She told her father that she wanted to spend some time alone and headed towards the statue of Barbatos in front of the cathedral. She felt that pair of eyes following her all the way, and it stopped right when she reached the last couple of stairs to get to the statue, when she heard a breeze that flew above her. Hana continued to walk towards the statue and saw the young bard in the green outfit standing right in front of the statue, sweating and out of breath. He was about to start playing when he felt like someone pulled on his sleeve. He looked around and saw nothing, until he looked down and saw Hana, handing him a piece of cloth for him to wipe his sweat. "Thank you!" said Venti with a wide smile on his face. Hana smiled back at him and ran back to the public that had started gathering there. She sat down in front of them with a slight green glow in her eyes from the sun reflecting off of them. She was happy to have had the chance to listen to him sing again. The bard cleared his throat and started playing. His song went like this:

"The small girl that the flowers grew, with all her gentleness and love too,

With all the friendship that she showed them, they grew until they touched the moon.

The small girl that with her own hands grew, the flowers with colors that gave life to the room,

A single wish with her whole heart she knew, the archons all the way from Celestia would make it happen real soon."

Hana was once again amazed, everyone clapped and left. But this time Hana didn't have to chase Venti, he was the one who came up to her. Using his Anemo power, infused with water, He cleaned Hana's cloth and gave it back to her. It looked like it was brand new! Venti raised his head for a moment and thought. After a not really long time of thinking, Venti cleaned his lyre and handed it over to Hana, who was in absolute shock. "Take good care of it, okay? I'll see you here at noon any day you want to teach you how to play it. Hana thanked him and ran home excited with her lyre. 

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