Healing incantation

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Aspen Arain:
"Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine. Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine. Heal what has been hurt, change that fate's design. Save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine. What once was mine."

Once Aspen finished the song, Red Riot removed the hair wrapped around his hand and had an unbelieving face.

Eijiro Kirishima:
"Ah..."

Aspen Arian:
" Please don't freak out."

While Red Riot had a "prepared to freak out" expression on his face, Aspen had a "pleading to not freak out" face, and the two had a moment of staring at each other with their expressions.

Eijiro Kirishima:
"Ahhh. I'm not freaking out, are you freaking out? No, I'm just very interested in your hair, and the magical qualities that it possesses. How long has it been doing that, exactly?"

Aspen Arian:
"Forever, I guess. Mother says when I was a baby people tried to cut it. They wanted to take it for themselves, but once it's cut it turns black and loses its power. A gift like that, it has to be protected. That's why mother never let me... That's why... I never left..."

Eijiro Kirishima:
"You never left that tower... and you're still gonna go back?"

Aspen Arian:
"No... yes. It's complicated. So, Eijiro Kirishima, huh?"

Eijiro Kirishima:
"Ah yeah, well. I'll spare you the sob story of poor orphan Eijiro Kirishima, it's a little bit of a... it's a little bit of a downer."

Even after Red Riot said those words, Aspen scooted closer to him to listen.

Eijiro Kirishima:
"There was this book. A book I used to read every night to all the younger kids, the tales of Crimson Red Riot. Swashbuckling rogue, richest man alive, not bad with the ladies either. Nothing to ever brag about of course."

Aspen Arian:
"Was he a thief too?"

Eijiro Kirishima:
"Ahh, well no. Actually, he had enough money to do anything that he wanted to do, he could go anywhere that he wanted to go. And... and, for a kid with nothing. I don't know, I... it just seemed like a better option... you can't tell anyone about this, okay? It could ruin my whole reputation."

Aspen Arian:
"Ahh, we wouldn't want that."

Eijiro Kirishima:
"Well a fake reputation, it's all a man has."

After Red Riot finished talking, there was a moment of laughter and gazing into each other's eyes, which was shared between the two sitting on a large tree's root.

Eijiro Kirishima:
"Um, well I should umm... I, I, I should get some more firewood."

Aspen Arian:
"Hey. For the record, I like Eijiro Kirishima much better than Red Riot."

Eijiro Kirishima:
"Well, then you'd be the first. But thank you."

Once Red Riot went to go find firewood, Aspen was still sitting on the tree root smiling in the direction that he left, unaware that there was someone behind her.

Lady Wisteria:
"Well I thought he'd never leave."

Aspen Arain:
"Mother?"

Lady Wisteria:
"Hello dear."

Aspen Arian:
"But I, I... I don't, we. How did you find me?"

Lady Wisteria:
"Oh, it was easy really. I just listened for the sound of complete and utter betrayal, and followed that."

Aspen Arian:
"Mother..."

Lady Wisteria:
" We're going home, Aspen. Now."

Aspen Arian:
"You... you don't understand. I've been on this incredible journey, and I've seen and learned so much. I even met someone."

Lady Wisteria:
"Yes, the wanted thief. I'm so proud. Come on, Aspen."

Aspen Arian:"Mother, Wait."

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