Time skip 1 week
I was walking through the abandoned sakren dorms, calmly looking around it again, I looked at the old, dingy, and musty appearance of it, she exhales shaking her head, walked towards one of the doors, and opened up a cabinet in one of the rooms to find a bag.
it was old with a blue and white gradient with black accents being the leather and stitching, The old leather straps were stiff with disuse, she slowly worked at the leather, undoing them and opening the flap on top to find a white object inside, with a crack running along the top.
she grabs hold of it and feels a rough texture she pulls it out to find a human skull, old and yellowed with age, she looked in the crack to see a bunch of carved eyes, lining the skull in rows, except around the right temple, there was a set of symbols, slowly she places a finger on them and activates them.
Suddenly she was wracked with a splitting headache, she dropped the skull and collapsed onto the floor starting at something huge, something she couldn't put into words to describe, the presence she felt from it was pure terror and yet comforting, deadly yet healing, suddenly the headache vanished and she looked around to find only the room, the bag, and a pile of dust where the skull once laid, and was left with a sneaking suspicion, that she should move to the left some.
She sidestepped some and suddenly a bookshelf behind her collapsed where she stood, she stared at the spot, slowly picked up the bag, and left the old dorms, to think about what just happened.
I watched the girl leave the dorms with a bag I recognized, an old blue one, used to see one of the sakren ships carry it around everywhere, said it was a gift from someone special I believe, ah I should stop reminiscing about better times.
the woman walked towards hearless and tapped her shoulder giving a curt nod, "I'm Belfast, hearless I believe?", the girl simply nodded tilting her head at Belfast, "the queen would like to discuss some things", hearless gave a blank stare before slinging the bag onto her back and raising her hands up, "what queen?", I looked at the girl calmly, nearly forgetting this girl was from the eagle union, and deafness isn't one for long eloquent sentences, but better suited for short and blunt statements.
"Queen Elizabeth, she a battleship and leader of royal navy", the girl nodded and seemed to point out to harbor towards Illustrious's ship, "I assume your asking the same faction as illustrious?", the girl nodded once again, "I know if this is a bit rude, but may I know your real name?", the girl pauses before nodding them motioning like she was writing something down, "need paper?", she nods and a hand her some, she quickly wrote what looked like single symbol, I stared at it for a moment trying to recall my Japanese, "Rousha, that translates to one without sound?", the girl nods before writing, "or quite literally deaf person", I pause in surprise, "that's a choice of name"
The girl shrugged before making a motion for me to lead the way, "right of course, follow me", I started to talk off, and noticed Rousha looking about as if sensing something, but I ignored it for now, as we approached the garden I can see the well-tended flora, glancing back at Rousha I can see oil and grime all over her.
"I wish i caught you before your work but this will have to do, and good job on enterprise's repair", Rousha nodded and seemed to appreciate the compliment before walking in, I followed after her, "She is here your majesty."
sadly for Rousha, could only sit there, looking at the queen, tilting her head confused, not really understanding what she was saying before she politely excused herself and left.
"I wonder why she seemed perplexed?", Belfast tilts her head confused, "I'm not sure, I'm sure she was trying to understand", the queen nods before standing up and curtly nodding at Belfast and leaving.
I started to clean up the table, thinking to myself, "Maybe it could be from how we form our words, accents might cause issues, but she seemed fine understanding me", she continued to clean and eventually finished.
I was walking down towards the docks noting some birds, wondering why I couldn't understand her, it felt as if I shouldn't be near her, my mind blocking her for some reason, like I felt a threat, perhaps there was something nearby? no that doesn't make sense, it was directed at her unless she was a target and I was in the way.
I continued down my path sitting down at the end of the dock and looking out to the harbor, and felt a presence out in the distance, "did i miss something?", she leaned back on the dock looking into the sky, watching the blue sky, letting time pass and the blue shifted to a red to a purple, then black.
slowly she stands up and walks off toward the Eagle Union dorms, entering them she walks past several of the kansen, and goes to her own room, it is simple and bare, she strips and enters the bathroom to shower, letting the water run down her, washing away the oil and grime, her hair soon shifting from the dirty white to a pure white, she scrubs out the dirt and soon shut the water off and dried herself, and grabbing some clothes that she got from vestal, putting them on she walked to her bed and pulled the sheet up and sat there, her mind rushing from the days' events, slowly she tires her mind out, before the embrace of sleep pulls her in.
she opened her eyes, not in her room, or at least her current room, it looked like her childhood room, before the accident, she heard water running, and her head snapped that way, wondering who it could be.
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soundless exile
Fanfictiona young girl battling with her own struggles finds refuge in a ship but little did she know she was aboard a kansens ship
