Blossoms: A Bit Of Yourself (Sweeps ago)
"... so I just simply told them to just NOT do that but... they still did the thing." Galenu spoke to Varani beside her as they both were walking down a trail in the forest. "I do hope... one day to own a bakery though it is hard with me being a low blood and all."
"Hmm, I think you should not worry for that kind of thing." Varani replies. "As my master once told me: even if the world is a hard and cruel dealer of fate, always look forward to the positive side of life because it will always find a way to turn towards your favor."
Galenu chuckled from the retelling of the saying. "Yeah... maybe. Then... I will eventually open up my own bakery!"
"That's the spirit!"
"Also... speaking of your master... you have not mentioned a lot about yourself." The yellow blood curiously said. "How come?"
Varani didn't expect a question like this to come up. If anything, she had hoped to avoid it entirely, to not look back on the past. "Well... it is quite complicated..."
"I-I mean...! I don't want you to talk about if it makes you uncomfy..."
"No... no. I think... I think I should. Perhaps help me to get some closure." The blind troll says. Both of them eventually stopped at a clearing within the forest. Finding a toppled down log, they both sat on it to rest, Varani needing to reach her hands out to find it for her to sit on.
"This was before I became blind so... thankfully I still remember some visual representations." Varani said and continued. "... I... lived on the side of the mountain on the eastern part of Alternia. A large village. So beautiful. During the spring the cherry blossoms would bloom and it would look... stunning. Like a whole other world. I had my lusus but I was primarily raised by my master, Heroli Psinto. They were... quiet. Very hard to read and would not tell you right away if you mess up something. I had a friend who I grew up with, too who was also under master's apprenticeship. Her name is Kirina Zanshu. She... was a trouble maker but... I don't know. She was... a good friend."
"We both were training to become shrine protectors. Supposedly a spirit that is worshipped in our village would grant good fortune, harvest, luck, and among other things. Not just protecting the shrine but the whole village. We... never had threats or get attacked. We were a quiet village and got along with other nearby towns and villagea just fine. Until... one day... me and Kirina went snooping around underneath the temple, finding a cave behind a waterfall that was locked away. We found a sword... the one I have now. Longer katana, basically. But we then felt rumbling within the cave. At that moment, I didn't know that Kirina took the sword when I went back up to the temple."
"We got back up and were greeted from an unexpected attack from an unknown enemy. Apparently they were searching for something... we didn't know what it was but I was told my master to go hide and to take Kirina with me..."
"You hid?" Galenu added after Varani's pause.
"No..." The red blood answered. "Something inside me told me to go out there... and fight. I did the best I could... if anything it was enough to kill off the leader that lead the attack, forcing the rest of his attackers that were alive to flee. But... during that battle... I lost my master... and my friend, Kirina... and my sight..."
Galenu frowned from the mentioning of that. She was afraid that it would lead to something negative. "I'm... sorry I asked. I didn't mean for you bring up something you didn't want to retell..."
"No it's fine..." Varani reassured her. "If anything... it is good I get to tell it to someone. I have wanted to keep it hidden, hoping to not feel hurt from what was taken from me but... in a way, it was good to help me. To not hide it anymore and to finally move on with the weight of that memory not hanging on my shoulders."
"Then... I guess that's good?" Galenu says questioningly.
"Yes. it is a good thing." Varani, once more, reassured the yellow blood with a smile.
"By the way... how are you able to find your way around and such?" Galenu asks.
"Simple. I'm psychic!" The red blood excitedly answers. " Despite my sight being lost, I heightened my psychic psionics for me to... "see" in a way. Able to make out outlines of objects especially people and animals."
"Oohhh. That's really neat~"







