Phone Calls

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[Ring ring, Aerith! Flower friend on the line!]

[You too, Rydia!]

[And you, Ellone. Mom knows you skipped town.]

Comments

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

...forgiveness is a really hard thing to do, sometimes. I know.

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

Hmm?

[That sounds like life experience speaking.]

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

...I never told you about Mist, did I?

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. Do you mean the fog outside?

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

No, I mean my hometown. Mist was a place of summoners, people who bring forth Eidolons and learn magic as naturally as some people learn how to walk. We kept to ourselves...but that didn't save us from tragedy.

When I was seven years old, two men were sent from the neighboring kingdom of Baron on the orders of their king, who feared our power. They slew my mother's dragon...which killed her, as well. Furthermore, the 'gift' he sent with them was actually a Carnelian Signet. When opened, it released a horde of Bombs throughout the town. In a very short span of time, the entire town was in flames.

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[The more Raine hears, the deeper her frown grows on her end of the phone.]

That's terrible! I'm so sorry.

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

I summoned Titan, a being of Earth, to destroy them...and then I blacked out. When I awoke, one of those soldiers from Baron was still with me, at an inn. He tried to speak with me, but I remembered all too well what he had done. Even though he hadn't meant to do it, my entire life had been ripped away from me because of him. So, I said nothing.

...and then, Baronian soldiers stormed in, to finish what was started. They would have killed me, were it not for that one soldier. He...he fought his own men, turned his back on everything else, to save me.

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

...

He did?

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

Yes. After that, he couldn't go back home even if he wanted to do so. Seeing that...I finally decided to trust him. If he could prevent such a tragedy from happening elsewhere, I wanted to be there to help him do it.

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

[There's a long silence on Raine's end while she thinks that over.]

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

Forgiving him wasn't easy, even in light of what he did to protect me. In fact, it was one of the hardest things I ever did. But...Queen Asura said it best. 'The wheels of a fate greater than us all are turning now. We must stand against it...and we must stand together.'

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

Something greater than us...

Thank you, Rydia. I'll think about that.

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

I'm glad. I know it's not easy to consider, but...I think Asura's words apply to this world, too.

[waitedinwinhill.livejournal.com]

She's a wise woman.