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As soon as we stepped off the train, Lin watched it as it left us. I exhaled and then started walking forwards, hoping Granny was alive, let alone at home. But I had strength and belief - The same strength and belief I'd had since my dear friends wove together a hair tie for me. The same hair tie which I'd worn everyday since I left the spirit world, actually.
"You sure this is the place?" Lin asked as we walked along a narrow path that was lit up well from the sunlight in comparison to the last time I had been here.
"I'm sure." I answered, my certainty confirmed when I saw the wooden woven archway that lay a few moments before Zeniba's beautiful cottage. It looked exactly the same and I hoped she was inside as we walked forward.
After knocking on the door, we waited and in all honesty, my hope faltered for a few moments but then the door opened to reveal a familiar face. Well - not a face, so to say.
"No face!" I exclaimed, clasping my hands together ecstatically.
"Ah... Ah!" No face gasped, looking at me and Sen before turning around and looking inside the cottage. "Ah... Ah!" He repeated again and I heard a shuffling from inside.
We waited and then Zeniba appeared, looking no different from last time.
"Sen!" She exclaimed and No Face moved out of the way so that she could engulf me in a big hug.
"Kinda - crushing me - Granny!" I gasped with a small laugh when she hugged me and she loosened her grip with an apologetic smile, her spectacles having fallen from being balanced on her head to her eyes when she'd ran to me.
"Oh, my dear, come in, come in. And who's this?" Granny asked, looking at Lin.
"I'm Lin, ma'am. It's nice to meet you." Lin smiled happily.
"Lovely to meet you dear." Granny didn't hesitate to hug Lin as well to which Lin seemed a little surprised at but she seemed to like it by her smile.
"Both of you, come in. I'll put some tea on." She ushered us both in and closed the door behind us after we entered her warm home. "Bôh! Yu-Bird! We have guests, my loves!"
No way they were here too!
A baby crow came flying out, flapping it's black wings around my head ecstatically.
"Hi!" I grinned at it as it sat on my shoulder.
"Sen!" A voice exclaimed and it was Bôh. He looked the same but he was considerably smaller which was odd, perhaps because he was finally growing up away from Yubaba.
"Bôh! Hey." I leaned down, holding my arms out and he hugged me with a smile.
"I missed you." He said after giving me a hug.
"I think we all did." Zeniba called as she filled the pot of tea, looking over through her glasses with a soft chuckle.
