Completed [Nettle District] Sigrun the Errand Girl

[Sigrun Dominic]

"Y-You... A-Are n-n-not... M-Ma... Mama?" "No petching shykes," Sigrun hissed under her breath, her left hand digging into the damp gravel as she leaned back and grumbled. She brought her other hand over to her forehead and sighed as the first semblances of a migrane began to sink in. The young girl remained still and idle, her eyes fixated on her swollen knee as the apparition before her wailed and cried tears of blood. She looked away with disgust, eventually glancing over to her cart of flowers. "They're going to notice the two missing roses," she thought gravely, "they're going to petching notice and I'm going to get petching fired." She struggled for the rose that lay on the floor and immediately turned over and attempted to return it into the bouquet. Carefully, with shaky fingers, she slipped the stem underneath the bouquet's twine and sighed with relief when the arrangement looked a lot better. "Nah, it'll be fine," she thought, although she found it hard to convince herself of her words as she shut out the sound of the girl's wailing, "It'll be fine, it looks less obvious." She pursed her lips angrily and turned to the apparition, who now had her back turned away from her. The crying was reduced to heaves and sobs. "... Mama is dead, so is papa... How silly of me..... Aha... AAAAAA-" The anger quickly subsided as Sigrun listened to the girl's broken sentences, the snippets shooting thorns through her heart as the familiarity of her situation struck her. She watched, dejectedly as the girl struggled to keep from screaming, and remembered when she had once had to force herself to do the same; to control herself, to refrain from releasing all the tension that built up in her chest from all the pain of loss. "I'm sorry... I'll pay for the flowers... And... For a doctor..." "N-No, I..." Sigrun leaned over, only to inhale sharply as she pressed her injured knee onto the gravel. Wincing, she struggled to get a better position closer to the girl. "I promise... I promise... So please don't hate me..." "I don't, I..." she kept trailing off, her voice cracking as she brought her hand out, only to realize that she could not touch her. "I'll go get my money... They are in the woods..." "That isn't necessary, that isn't necessary," she said, much louder this time. She wiggled her fingers slowly, in the place where the girl should have been sitting, solid and existing, but she did not. She was only partly there; barely, even. "You can stop crying now, it's okay," Sigrun sighed, smiling in between her heavy breaths, "it's okay, I know what it's like." "My parents are gone too." Sigrun's fingers lingered over the girl, in between her, until she began to feel invasive of her space. Gently, she brought her hand down and looked utterly defeated. How was she supposed to comfort someone that she couldn't touch?

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri As she was about to leave, Kouri noticed a hand was 'inside' her body, turning around she saw the woman putting out her hand to touch her, but as she was unmaterialized; the woman couldn't do so. "Un..." Kouri slowly gazed at the woman's face and finally got a good look, her eyes were in the color of aquamarine, unlike her mother's sapphire blue. Her features, with thick arched eyebrows and slightly masculine, making her looked androgynous. She was very very different from Sora's mostly feminine features. "*Gasp*..." Kouri made a loud gasp as her mouth went agape with both of her hands covering it. "........aaah..." She couldn't form words as she realized how wrong and crazy she had been acting, the woman's anger was very much justified; but gazing at her right now, Kouri could not see any anger on her face. The woman's expression showed confusion, sadness, and concern; but not anger. "You can stop crying now, it's okay," She sighed, smiling in between her heavy breaths, "it's okay, I know what it's like." Y-you know w-what? Kouri looked down on the ground as regret washed over her. "My parents are gone too." That one statement made Kouri instinctively materialized herself and hugged the woman, all the while whispering "I'm sorry..." repeatedly.

[Sigrun Dominic]

Sigrun's eyes widened as the young girl materialized before her, appearing more physical, more existing as she threw herself at the blonde in a tight embrace. Memories washed over her, memories of a younger brother holding her in a similar way, clinging to her as if his life depended on it; and it did. "Sigmund," she almost confused the girl for her younger brother, and felt stupid for it. There were too many misunderstandings in this situation already. The young girl began to whimper apologies at her repeatedly, and the young girl found it hard not to stay upset with her. Gently, she returned the hug, rubbing circles around the little girl's back. Sometimes, her fingers seemed to poke through her, and her body seemed to melt into her as portions of her immaterialized for mere moments, betraying her true form. It felt as if she was hugging a body of water. "It's alright, it's alright, shh..." she hummed softly, her voice soothing and maternal. She sounded precisely the way she did when she would speak to Sigmund when he was still alive and well. "You can stop crying now, you don't have to cry anymore, it's fine now, everything's fine now," she whispered, "everything's going to be fine. It always will be fine." "Life was never meant to be easy. Remember what m—" Sigrun stopped herself, almost saying something she used to always tell Sigmund. Freezing for a moment, she struggled to control her emotions as wave upon wave of sadness and nostalgia began to overcome her. "Remember that," she corrected herself, "but everything always works out in the end."

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri Kouri shut her eyes tight and kept clinging on the woman, "Uuuuun..." Kouri cooed like a scared little girl and hug her tighter. Then she felt the woman slowly hugged her back. !?....Un... Kouri let out a slight stir and slowly, but surely, began to calm down in her embrace. The woman's attempt at calming her down using comforting words was working as Kouri slowly smiled and just kept hugging her. She haven't felt this sensation for a long time. After a good five chimes of hugging, Kouri finally looked up and gazed at the woman's face. "Ehehe... you don't hate me, right? Phew... hehe..." Kouri beamed her with a smile as her hair ribbons disappeared, being let loose, her very long hair slowly moved to envelop the woman in strands of silver white. It kinda looked like they were wrapped in a blanket made of ethereal hair. "I'm sorry... about your leg... and flowers..." Kouri shifted her position so it would look like she was sitting on the woman's lap. "Madame... everything works out in the end, huh? S-so that means... Can I uhm... see mama and papa again? Can I eat again? Can I sleep again?" Kouri's eyes were full of hope as she showered her with questions and she slowly spoke her last question "Can I be... alive again?"

[Sigrun Dominic]

Sigrun's grip on the girl slowly loosened as the apparition gently let her hands drop, and eventually it looked as if the little girl where perched on her lap. The young girl couldn't help but smile softly, as she remembered how Sigmund would always sit on her lap whenever she would tell him stories. "Ehehe... you don't hate me, right? Phew... hehe..." The young girl's hair began to fall out of their ribbons on their own accord, and the sight caused Sigrun's heart to skip a beat. Slowly, her silken, silvery hair began to envelop them both, causing the young blonde's eyes to widen with fear as she shook her head vigorously in response to the apparition's question. "I'm sorry... about your leg... and flowers..." Sigrun continued to shake her head repeatedly. "No no! It's fine!" she grinned sheepishly, afraid to anger or upset the translucent girl. "Madame... everything works out in the end, huh? S-so that means... Can I uhm... see mama and papa again? Can I eat again? Can I sleep again?" The blonde girl's smile faded. "Can I be... alive again?" A long pause. Sigrun's wide eyes scanned the little girl's, hoping silently that the answer she was looking to say to her was in there, somewhere. "Life isn't about eating, or sleeping, or breathing," she began. "Life is about being happy. And sometimes..." her voice thinned as she trailed off, "sometimes you have to let go of a few things along the way." "But in the end, life is about being happy." "You might not ever see mama and papa again," she said, raising her hands up and resting it on the girl's shoulders. Her fingers sunk through her, but she managed to maintain a grip. "You just have to find the silver lining," she grinned, shaking the girl lightly, her eyes filling with the twinkling of hope.

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri "I.. I see~ T-then I'm alive after all, ehehe~" Kouri said blissfully at the woman's statement about life is about being happy. "....I see, I know... I already knew that I can't see both of them anymore... a man even said to me that I shouldn't even be here... that I should move on, I see, so if I 'move on'... I can meet with them... but I don't want to move on... not as long..." Kouri's eyes narrowed into serpentine slits in anger as her Soulmist swirled rapidly around herself. "...as long that tiger... that beast, that monster still alive... I will kill it, I will rip out its throat with my own hands, huhuhu... hehehe... HYAAHAHA-..." Kouri realized she was being scary and quickly stopped herself. "Uhm... uuh... aha... s-sorry... I uuh..." She can't find the words to explain her behavior and just rest her head on the woman's chest with her hair hugging the woman's body. O-oh no... I should stop doing that... laugh, people might think I'm scary... "A-anyway!" Kouri changed the subject "M-madame, my name is Fubuki Kouri, ehehe, just call me Kouri~ uhm... may I know your name? I-it's okay if you don't want to tell me..."

[Sigrun Dominic]

"I.. I see~ T-then I'm alive after all, ehehe~" Sigrun nodded, her eyes scanning the girl's features as she slowly eased her fingers off of the apparition's shoulders. "What matters is what's in here," she told her, pointing over to the center of the girl's chest, where her heart was meant to be. "....I see, I know... I already knew that I can't see both of them anymore... A man even said to me that I shouldn't even be here... That I should move on, I see, so if I 'move on'... I can meet with them... But I don't want to move on... not as long..." "Every soul moves on in their own time--" "...as long that tiger... that beast, that monster still alive... I will kill it, I will rip out its throat with my own hands, huhuhu... hehehe... HYAAHAHA-..." Sigrun's smile faded as she struggled to calm the girl down. She brought her hands over to the apparition's shoulders once more and held them still. "Uhm... uuh... aha... s-sorry... I uuh..." "A-anyway!" the little girl quipped. Sigrun jumped. "M-madame, my name is Fubuki Kouri, ehehe, just call me Kouri~ uhm... may I know your name? I-It's okay if you don't want to tell me..." "Fubuki..." Sigrun said the name in her head, "Kouri... What an odd name, I've never heard of anything like it." The girl spoke and acted as strangely as her name. She seemed to be from some far off land, a place where their culture was something Sigrun knew nothing about. "Dominic," she responded, as she gently pushed the girl off her lap so she could get up from the ground. It took some time and a lot of pain, but the blonde managed to rise and limp over to her cart.

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri "I see, Madame Dominic, a pleasure to meet you..." Kouri said as she noticed Dominic wanted to get up so she unmaterialized herself and floated to a standing position. .... Kouri noticed the limping movement of Dominic and guilt washed over her. "I uuh..." she wanted to help Dominic push her cart, but she realized that her Soulmist strength was still too weak to move something that heavy. "M-madame... is there anything I can do to help?" Kouri said as her hair dropped and ribbons magically appeared to tie it at its end. OOCI think this thread almost ends, your reply to this post will end it IMO. Shoot me a PM to confirm it and I will post it to a ST office, however feel free to add if you have anything, of course.

[Sigrun Dominic]

Sigrun winced as she stretched her injured leg, bending and flexing it until it felt fine to walk. Grasping her cart, she paused when she heard Kouri speak. "I see, Madame Dominic, a pleasure to meet you..." "Just Dominic," she mumbled kindly, before turning around to face the girl, "and the pleasure was... All mine." Chuckling, she gazed down at the young girl and furrowed her brows, smiling softly, as if she were contemplating something. She didn't want to leave her alone, and at the same time she knew that she couldn't care for her, as she knew next to nothing about what she was, exactly, and what it took to support her. "I uuh... M-madame... is there anything I can do to help?" "Just Dominic," she repeated, "and there is something." She knelt down, on her good knee, in front of Kouri. She brought her hand up and let it hover over the girl's shoulder as she gazed deeply into her eyes. "Promise me, that you'll make it a point to find happiness, and to maintain it." "And to earn it without harming anyone, especially yourself." After the girl had responded, Sigrun smiled sweetly and said her goodbyes. She then strolled her cart down the alley and disappeared out of it and over to the main road.

OOC noteYou can send it out for grading after your last post. T'was nice!

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri OOCOkay~ This will be the last post "B-be happy? W-without harming anyone..." Kouri contemplated Dominic's words, in her heart; she knew it was true. "Yes! Yes I will, Mad-... Dominic~ Ehehe~" Kouri quickly corrected herself to respect Dominic's wishes of being called just 'Dominic'. Kouri gave Dominic one final hug as she said her goodbyes. "I hope we meet again... Dominic..." Kouri whispered as Dominic strolled her cart down the alley and disappeared in the crowd. "No... hehe... Mama..." Kouri slowly flashed a dreamy smile and slowly blinked away, heading back to her favorite tree in the Bronze Woods. It seemed like being a ghost, her mind was not exactly... normal according to human standards; nevertheless, Kouri will remember Dominic as someone important to her. END