Pride

Chapter 1 • the arrival

"Are we living a life that is safe from harm?Of course not. But that's not the right question. Are we living a life that is worth the harm?"

A lone girl stood in the airport, towering above everyone. She had a pale face, with freckles spattered across it like spray paint.
However, it wasn't her unusual hair, or tall stature that made the crowd whisper and avoid her. No, it was her eyes. They had a deep haunting look, and the right one had a large clump of scar tissue around it.
And, While It didn't disfigure her face, it wasn't necessarily pleasant to look at. And one could only wonder HOW it had come to exist in the first place.
Sighing, the tall girl brushed her wild hair behind her ear, and started walking towards the exit.The crowd quickly parted to let her through.

She pulled out a letter and glanced at it, before shoving it back into her pocket, unread. 
"Looks like I need to go to the north. Then a couple streets down..." her voice tapered off, and she went quit.

After two hours of walking, she found herself in front of a large building. It was odd, she had never seen a bulding like this before. She was used to grass huts, and small mud building for food. Shrugging, she casually walked through the gate.
Approaching the large spruce door, she found a small button off to the side. Her fingers twitched, and she couldn't help but push it. After no response, she was about to press it again.

"Hello."
Jumping in surprise, she quickly turned to be greeted by a butler that looked old. However, it was hard to estimate HOW old exactly since she had never been good with human years.
Odripheral live so long, and humans lived to be  a measly 89 or 90. It definitely made telling a humans age hard.

She smiled at him, her grin causal and relaxed.
"hello! My name is Gala Stormbirn, I'm here to see Yuzuru Suoh. I have a letter for him."

The butler looked at her suspiciously, before nodding slightly and letting her in. She walked in cautiously, and admired the large building.

Looking down at herself, she felt underdressed. She was wearing basketball shorts and a Shirt from an airport gift shop.
Sadly, All the shirt and pants did was reveal more scars on her legs and arms.

Frowning, she followed after the old butler.
He led her to an office, after going up a long flight of stairs. Why would you even need this many stairs?

The butler knocked on a large door, that looked to be shining it was so clean.
A Couple of seconds later they were greeted by a loud voice

"come in!"
The butler opened the door, and stood to the side.

Gala walked in, glancing at him for a second before observing the room.
Sitting inside, was a blonde haired boy that looked her physical age, and in front of him was an older human man. She assumed the older man was Yuzuru.

He smiled at he kindly "and who might you be?"
She stared at him blankly. "My name is Gala Stormbirn. " the man froze, his eyes trailing down to the crumpled letter in her hand, and then  back to her face. His gaze lingered on the scar, his eyes wide.

She reached out to give him the letter, seeming to break him out of his shock. he hesitantly took it, muttering to himself. She watched him curiously.
After a second of reading, he glanced up. And... the scar. That's from your connection?" She nodded "happens to all of my clusters when I change."

Coughing, the Yuzuru gained his composure and turned to the boy.
"Tamaki. Gala will be staying with us for awhile. I expect you to treat her with the utmost respect!"

With that said, everything happened so fast, it was hard to tell what was going on.

I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter to pride! It took me a little bit to get it written, so I hope it turned out alright. More things will be revealed about the Odriph, as the story progresses. Or maybe I'll just make a quick fact sheet thing.... hmmmmmm

Anyways, that's it for now. I hope you enjoy ^^