A/N: This book is ON HOLD
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Editor: Eun-chan. (You're the best! Ily! Thanks for the help!)
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Sorry I'm putting this on hold. I need to finish the other book first.
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GIST: Esai is hiding from debtors with her father. They fled to an island wh...
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Part I.
THE GUARDIAN
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You could almost smell the salt in the air.
The cold winds are blowing strong against her ears, almost booming like the waves of the ocean before her but the heat of the sun abated the chill she could have felt. It's one refreshing afternoon in the piers of Reefbane Islands.
Esai Lenn could have enjoyed the summer air one last chance this month before the fall season begins. It was already by the corner, with all the red colored trees and the cool and precipitating weather in the city. She loves autumn. She loves its colors and the ambiance. Yes, she could almost have welcomed it with wide open arms if it only wasn't for her father dragging her all the way from the mainlands and out to this tropical looking island.
And now, here she stares wide eyed behind her sunglasses at the blasting sunlight drawn to her like a spotlight with the salty smelling gust of air slapping at her like a curtain and disheveling the new hairdo she just got before leaving the mainlands.
She walked a few steps to where the coconut trees stood in a palisade by the beach steps and decides to settle there for awhile while her father, Calven Lenn, dug their luggage from the pile the ships had in its cargo.
Esai took another deep breath and scouted her eyes around. Honestly speaking, the beach front here doesn't look too shabby. Her father already warned her how rural this island town will be but the fact that there were several electric powered lamp post by the pier proves her hunch otherwise. It made her feel much better knowing it's not too rural as she thought it would be.
Esai took her small backpack off then hooked her sunglasses by her collar, she has a long slender neck that matches her thin yet graceful physique. She combed her hair against the warm beach winds, raking it aback with her fingers in attempt to taming it. Just a few days ago, her hair was thick and long enough that it would have wrapped around her head snuggly like a scarf if strong winds like this blow pass her but right now, ever since what happened back at the mainlands, she's not even sure how long she would be keeping this short boy cut hairstyle. It's a simple cropped hair with fringe ends dangling freely and shining in a lux shade of dark brown, which she had to dye herself just to cover the ash blonde she used to have. But it's not too bad, she thought. After all, it matches her bright amber eyes that almost seem like a shade of gold. Top it up with her god-given gift of being flat chested and her looks as a guy is complete; it's almost too perfect actually that she's starting to doubt if some deity out there condemned her anatomy in such a way that she is destined to take this role as 'boy' someday. Even her voice is androgynous.
