aterat | INTRO ~ FIRST MEMORY

Who; Naminé & OPEN
What; Wandering around the city.
Where; Around the city.
When; Late November
Warnings; N/A

It was all explained but it didn't feel like enough. A portal from her world to this world but why had it just been her? Riku had come to get her, he'd been there with her… reaching out to take her hand. The way he had to Sora many times throughout his memories.

Naminé clutched her palms to her chest, the blue bag she'd been given dangling against her stomach as she walked. She wasn't alone here but there was so much that she didn't understand or know. Who would answer her? What kind of world was this? It wasn't like Travers Town or Radiant Garden but it was similar in many ways. Was there magic here?

The questions were consistent and overwhelming and she didn't have an answer.

More of this world and her new life here was explained to her but she still felt awkward. She wandered through the city with no destination in mind. There was so much to see but her simple white dress wasn't warm enough as fall turned to winter. She stopped in the middle of the street and looked up at the sky.

"It's so blue." She shivered. "Cold..."

Her arms wrapped around her torso as she looked for a building that might provide her some warmth. She wasn't paying attention to where she was going, only that she wanted to warm up.

Bodies were so strange...

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"We can both go inside!" Naminé suggested with a smile. That way she could give back the coat and they could both be warm. "Do you know of a place nearby? I don't really know my way around yet."

"Well, we could go to the dorms. Which do you live in?"

Better to take the girl somewhere safe.

"Oh. Terra showed me. I live in the Blue building." She only remembered because Terra had gone out of his way to lead her to her room and show her how the apartments worked. It wasn't like Naminé had lived in an apartment before.

She'd lived locked in a room but that wasn't the same.

"Where do you live?" She was innocently curious and didn't realize that it might be a strange thing to ask someone she didn't know.

Terra? The name meant nothing to her. Lauri-Ell nodded.

"I reside in the same building. I know the way," Lauri-Ell says, before gesturing the direction they should get going. "Come, I will show you."

"You do? My room is on the first floor." She didn't know anyone else who lived in the building besides Terra who was almost directly above her. "Maybe we're neighbors?" Naminé asked hopefully while jogging at Larui'Ell's side.

"Oh. My name is Naminé. What's yours?"

"I am Lauri-Ell," the woman says, and she deliberately has to slow her stride. She shouldn't make the girl jog.

"I do not know if many live in our building. I am gone before the dawn and return after sunset many days."

"Lauri-Ell." Naminé says the name slowly, sounding out each syllable to make sure that she's saying it correctly. It sounds a little awkward but it's clear that she's trying to make sure that she states Lauri-Ell without error.

"Huh?" She looked up curiously. "Where do you go?"

It is good of her, to care that it sounds good.

"I am learning to be a blacksmith. It is very involved. And I am pleased to learn."

"A blacksmith?" Naminé had no idea what a blacksmith did. Was it something to do with the color or maybe it involved making something? Her imagination went a little wild with guesses before she finally voiced her question aloud. "What does a blacksmith do? Is it very hard?"

"I make things of metal," she answers. "Weapons someday. Now, it's nails and horse shoes and the rest."

That said, she nods at the question.

"Oh yes. But I am strong. It works out for me.

Naminé continued to smile. "You look strong." She thought about it and decided that she'd find something to learn too. "Do you think I could find something like that? Something to learn?" She'd have to start at the beginning of anything she tried.

"I haven't had a chance to do anything like this before. This world, it's all very different."

Well, she is strong. But how does one look strong? It is an interesting question. One she will not explore she thinks.

"I think everyone can. I am also trying to learn about flowers."

There is a lot to learn. It's a lot of fun.

"The world is different from what I know too. I liked it."

"I love flowers!" Naminé replied with a wide smile.

It was true that Lauri-Ell was tall and muscular but that wasn't the strength that Naminé referred too. It was the fact that she was able to face this new world and create a place in it for herself. Naminé can't help but envy and admire that kind of strength.

It's a strength of heart.

"Really? What world are you from?"

She has already had to try and adjusting to massive changes in her world, her surroundings.

"I am from Hala. We did not have many flowers. Other planets I worked on did."

"Really?" Naminé smiled. "I haven't gotten to see many either but I hope I can find some here." She might even attempt to grow her own though she'd have to learn how.

"Have you heard of a paopu fruit? It grows from a small yellow flower."

"We may not, given the time of year," Lauri-Ell admits. But hey, she can hope for it too.

"Paopu fruit? No. I have not. Does it taste good?"

"I don't know. I haven't tried it myself. There is a legend about the Paopu fruit. If you share one with someone, then your destiny's become intertwined." Her smile widened. "I've always wanted to try it but it's a fruit, so it must be sweet. Right?"

Naminé hasn't eaten a lot of fruit.

That does not at all follow, Lauri-Ell is sad to say.

"There are many fruit that are tart or bitter."

She blinked. "There are?" Her confusion obvious and all consuming.

"What sort of fruit tastes bitter and tart?"

"Bitter melon for one."

It's bitter, not tart. But she had not liked it herself.

"Do you think they have that here? I would like to try it."

Her bright blue eyes shined eagerly, hoping beyond hope that she'd be able to taste the various fruits that Lauri-Ell described.

"They did, in the markets. They have not done so in a while," Lauri-Ell admits. Seasonality was a thing here.

"But we shall find some. Come, let us get you somewhere warm. Then I will seek more."

Naminé bobs her head in an agreeable nod. "Alright." With that, she jogged up next to Lauri-Ell and attempted to match the other woman's pace. Some place warm sounded perfect.

INTRO ~ FIRST MEMORY

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