Eight days before the war:
“So- you’re always doing this alone?” Said the girl-
Layns walked ahead of her-
Through the grass-
It was nearly midday but the breeze was strong.
So the sun didn’t feel that bad today.
“Yeah.”
So warm, so tranquil-
“So technically I’m your first party member?”
“You are, yes. We’re not an official party yet though. We’d need to find another member before we could call ourselves a party.”
“But you don’t go through the trouble, right?” A smile.
Some wild porcupine passed them by, not quite even attempting to acknowledge the two as a threat.
Layns shrugged- “Not really.”
They walked-
There wasn’t much to talk about.
Layns was a novice-
Elaine was also a novice but had more experience than Layns.