Im a tiny being in a humongous earth

Beautiful Charcoals

Lena was walking in to her usual route, both to think and look for customers. It was her habit taken from her "bastard" father as she would call him. She tried to force out that particular thought out of her, she wanted to have peace and thinking of her father was not, she figured, will bring any. As she was walking she saw a bus stopped right beside the plaza. She rubbed her hands together and thought. Money time.

A pale looking lady with dark locks and thin body came down first. Lena was intrigue by her since she strangely looked out of place, she was somewhat stunning in the lands of dark skins. She began to fill her lips with a fake enthusiastic smile and perked herself then set off to the woman's location.

"Hello!" she beamed.

Claire's eye was the only one that moved as they looked at the source of the noise passively. She nodded as a sign of acknowledgement and sighed as impatience was starting to creep unto her. What's taking him so long? She thought.

Lena was taken aback, her usual façade did not work, she thought of plan B. Persistence.

"Hi! I see that you're new here!" Claire just squinted her eyes at her, she was feeling both impatient and annoyed. She kept her lips tightly sealed as if saying go away, but like Ludwig, Lena's persistence was hard to break.

"Do you have a place to stay at least? I mean, you look like you're traveler, how about I offer you a place to stay?" Claire ignored her, or at least tried to, for her squeaky voice was rather hard not to notice. Claire was about to say something rude when Ludwig cut her off.

"Yeah, we would like that, so is it far?" the two ladies' jaw dropped. One's reason was that she was shocked to see someone who's very good looking and the other one was astonishment as well, as he was a little late on coming down.

"Yes! of course, it's clean, affordable and spacious! You and your uh..." she scanned Claire to see her relationship with Ludwig and Claire replied with a slightly raised eyebrows.

"His sister" she replied which made Ludwig snort and Lena raise her hopes.

They now walked on the unpaved rocky road, Lena, leading, Ludwig and Claire following. While walking Ludwig can't help but to feel curious as to why Claire said siblings rather than stranger or friends but felt slightly amused that she can say it without hesitation.

"Why did you say siblings?"

"It's annoying to elaborate. What? If you don't want, then fine. Tell her the truth"

"no.no." he waved his hands "It's fine I'm just curious that's all" Claire just shrug and walked on.

After some time they finally saw the villa, it was not large nor too small it's almost perfect in Ludwig's head but there's one thing he missed the most which he was sure that "she" will never be there, he missed her so much that he began hum her songs but while humming he'll remember some parts of his history he didn't want to remember but that was something inevitable even for him a "runner".

"so, here's the other bedroom, you can choose here and-"  Lena drifted away from them as Claire observed the bedrooms all of them have two beds separated by a side table and has a study table in front of a wide window where you can see the mountains and some sea. The interior was all wooden-old woods and white sheets, it was a silent sanctuary.

While Lena spoke she noticed that her clients began to vanish but a sigh of relief escaped through her lips when she saw the wandering Ludwig she quickly walked towards him but halted as she saw his expression- it was indescribable warmth that even flowed through her, she saw one of the sweetest smile in her entire life. She expected to see Claire but it was not her which made her curious as to who was he smiling at, it was only a room with wide window and flowing white curtains and dusty instruments. Oh. Instruments. She thought.