Sky: War in the Skies (A Sky: Children of the Light AU)

Chapter 35 - Welcome Home

{Morning}

[Lyrinn is the first to wake up. She finds a neatly folded dress upon her bed and gets changed. A cloak hung on a hanging rack. Getting out of her bed she heads out of the bedroom and finds Pythoris asleep on the couch and Ellie fallen asleep in her chair. Looking out the window, the morning was still dark violet but brightly lit by the dawn of the warm sun. Wanting to watch the sun rise, Lyrinn finds a stack of paper on the counter table and a pencil on the floor and writes a note saying she will be watching the dawn. Leaving the note and pencil, she grabs her cloak, puts her hood on, and heads out alone to the Beach of Birth to watch the dawn.

It was a new dawn, and so was her new beginning. There was beauty and the sweet sight of a new future and various new possibilities and surprises. The air was fresh and easy to breathe. With corruption gone, there was almost peace. However, there was the sad question: Should she go reunite her friends?

As she watched the sunset, Lyrinn wondered if she should find her friends she had left before her death, but where were they, she thought. At the same time, she felt guilty for leaving her friends and wondered if they would be mad at her for leaving them in the first place. She wept alone, seemingly thinking no one would comfort her until she felt a shoulder tap. She looked back and saw another hooded stranger seemingly wanting to comfort her.]

Hooded Person
Are you okay?

Lyrinn
Oh... I... sorry.

Hooded Person
No no it's all good. You feel like letting it out? I know maybe I'm a stranger to you but I like helping others. How about we sit down?

Lyrinn
Sure...

[The two sat down on the soft sand. They watch the beautiful dawn for a few minutes. When she was ready, Lyrinn began to speak. The person listened carefully.]

Lyrinn
Last night, I was reborn along with my older brother... Maybe a few days ago or something, I fought against him in the Area of Sacrifice and we both died. Because of where we died, we get to continue our life as we are as the gods have told me. I'm back here but I can't help thinking that I just abandoned all of my friends... I wonder if... they hate me.

[Lyrinn's voice starts to become shaky and tears fall from her face. The man went in front of her. He unhoods her and wipes her tears. Behind the shadow concealing his face, he softly smiled admiring Lyrinn's tearful yet beautiful face. Her mismatched eyes and her young face make her beautiful almost perfect complexion.]

Hooded Person
I don't think they'll hate you at all.

Lyrinn
No you don't understand... I left them. I disobeyed my leader and went in. I didn't give what my adoptive brother wanted and worst of all.. I left my best friend... I wonder if he's crying alone... without me to comfort him and wipe his tears like I always did when I was alive with him. I wonder if... he hates me for leaving him.

Hooded Person
I'm sure you had your reasons. He would understand.

Lyrinn
Still... I left him.

Hooded Person
I'm sure he loved you...

Lyrinn
And yet I left him... I bet he's crying alone... I bet... he hates me for leaving him.

[Lyrinn continues to cry as the smiling man continues to wipe her tears away. Although she had eventually stopped weeping, tears still fell from Lyrinn and she had a heart of regret she felt she had to carry. Caressing Lyrinn's soft cheek, the person unhooded himself revealing a smiling, familiar, handsome, blue-eyed face of a Forestro boy, Reyn. Lyrinn becomes shocked at the sight of her smiling best friend, comforting her and wiping her tears.]