Day 50: Courtyard

[hasnomeaning]

Again, there were choices. After leaving the child and the animal, Rei had followed again. When prompted where she wanted to spend time, the pilot had no preference. If they wished her to do something, they would place it before her. If they left her with options, she would take the ones they did not want. So her response was minimal, and so the

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[divinebrushwork]

A friendly voice interrupted her thoughts and Amaterasu was forced to divert her eyes away from the rest of the courtyard. There was a very peculiar young man standing beside her now and just by looking at him, she could tell he was different from the other individuals she had met at the institute.

His hair was an abnormal color, as were his eyes (it seemed as though he had heterochromia, for each iris was a different shade) and there was just something about him that didn't seem right. If she had still possessed her keen sense of smell, she would have known immediately. But for now, she'd just have to figure it out the mortal way.

In response to the man's question, Ammy gave a short nod, then raised her head to stare back out at the people milling about.

"L . . . l-looking for f-f-friends." she stammered, struggling to control the words flowing from her voice box. "Issun. Oki."

Of course, she had never seen this man during her lifetime in Nippon. What chance was there that he knew who her companions were? She bet that even Waka, who was known to many people as the leader of the Tao Troopers, wasn't known in this world.

[laguz_decoy]

Ranulf kept his smile intact and forcefully kept his his eyebrows from raising as the girl spoke to him. Her stammering reminded him a lot of Mordecai and the other laguz in Gallia attempting to learn the beorc language. There was no way this girl originated in a beorc body. If he hadn't been raised in such an environment, he doubt he would've come to this conclusion so quickly. Well... conclusion was hardly the word to use. It was only a theory.

When she was done speaking, he couldn't stop his face from falling a bit. He'd never heard of anyone named "Issun" or "Oki", though they seemed to have the same language origin as Tsubaki. Perhaps Tsubaki knew this girl's friends? He'd save this information for later, but first Ranulf had a few questions he was inquiring to know.

"Your friends? What do they look like?"

[divinebrushwork]

Ammy had a feeling that it was going to be a slim chance for this man to know her companions. She was certain that he was not from Nippon. His hair and eyes were even stranger than that of the Moon Tribe's or even the Celestials.
But it didn't hurt to describe them a little. Perhaps he had at least run into them here.

"Issun."
The goddess curled her thumb and finger to form exactly one inch's worth of space, indicating how small the wandering artist was.
"P . . . P-Poncle." she said, eyes narrowed in concentration. "T . . . tiny. Loud. L-likes m . . . melons."
As she spoke the last word, her hands moved to cup the lumps of flesh that now sat upon her chest. They were called melons, right? Surely this man knew that.

"Oki . . ."
She moved on to her next description, dropping her hands from her melons.
"O . . . Oina . . ." she stammered. "Wolf. C-carries sword c . . . called K-Ku-Kutone."