Re:Lyra-Starting Life in Another World (Re:Reader-Lyra Edition)

Chapter 7: An Unexpected Serenade

Lyra walked back to her room. It took some convincing, but Subaru eventually agreed to the deal that she had offered him.

Getting ready for bed, Lyra had another idea slip into her mind. Her phone was probably charged just enough for her to listen to some music while she fell asleep, which was something that she hadn't done in a long time.

Lyra checked her phone's battery, and it read a good thirty one percent.

This should get me a few hours of tunes, I'll just set a playlist and get my headphones and-

Stopping her thought, Lyra had quickly and almost immediately remembered that most of her belongings were still in her car, which was still in the Capitol.

Lyra: Hmm... I know I probably don't have my headphones, but I wonder if I still have my earbuds...

Walking over to the cabinet, Lyra rifled through the pockets of her jacket, looking for the spare set of cheap earbuds she kept.

Lyra: Alrighty, there we go!

Finding exactly what she was looking for, she untangled the cord and plugged it into her phone. Crawling into bed and finding a comfy spot, Lyra put on a relaxing anime and video game soundtrack playlist and let the music carry her thoughts away.

Hopefully Rem will be pleasantly surprised, provided Subaru remembers to carry through on his end of the deal...

It was morning, which was roughly the time Lyra would normally wake up as the first light of the day made its way through the gap in the curtains.

However, considering that she was told her duties were limited to later afternoon tasks today, she took the opportunity to sleep in a little longer, her first time being able to do so since arriving to this new world.

However, Rem had other plans. She was curious as to why she was in the situation she was in, and strongly believed Lyra might know something about it. For some reason, Rem had found out that most of the tasks that she had needed to complete before leaving were already complete, and by Subaru, no less.

With a simple knock on the door failing to get Lyra up, Rem decided to ever so quietly open the door. Entering in her graceful, quiet fashion, she lightly stepped across the room to reach Lyra while she still laid asleep.
Normally, Rem would not wake someone up when they had nothing to do that morning, but she was overly suspect of two things, how, and more importantly, why did Lyra convince Subaru to wake up so early to do her morning tasks?

Rem approached the sleeping Lyra and had gotten right to her bedside before she saw something that perplexed her. From both of Lyra's ears, two black strings descended from her head and joined to one string, leading to her hand underneath her pillow.

Letting her curiosity get the better of herself, Rem ever so gently lifted the side of the pillow to see what the string led to. Being careful as to not wake Lyra, she peered onto what she held in her hand.

To her surprise, the string led to the same black rectangle that she had connected to the sun power device.

While Lyra had professed the device's harmlessness, Rem still had her suspicions. Again using her gracefully gentle hand skills, she maneuvered the rectangle from Lyra's hand.

As soon as she touched its smooth, glass-like surface, the rectangle lit up. Rem was so surprised that she had almost dropped it. She immediately moved her fingers away from the light. To her, she guessed "light" might mean "heat", and not wanting to be possibly burned, she recoiled her fingers.

Timidly, Rem touched the lit-up surface of the rectangle, and the light reacted to her touch, almost like the water on a still pond.

She analyzed the lights, seeing symbols that were not unlike what Lyra had written the day before.