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[Timmy]

Unexpected friend

The last hope was lost when they entered the freighter. So many strangers suddenly appeared, all armed and inspiriting fear in even trained soldiers. A poor girl could not find any place to hide from the weight of that fear. The only help were hands of her brother, who yet could not even walk straight. Ayame snugled closer to him as some person approached them. They separated the two, taking Tetsuo away. She wanted to cry, but the fear was choking her. She was left alone with a mysterious man in mask and a single look upon her made her shudder again. Unable to even stand she just sat on the bench, moving closer to the corner, attempting to hide from the presense of that person, trying to find any even slightly safe place. Pressing her arms to her chest she turned away, still feeling the look of that person on her back...

Almost loosing consciousness from that hardness upon her Ayame did not notice how the freighter reached some base. On the order from a masked man to follow she did so, only weakly looking around in hopes to find Tetsuo. Though she only found more of the people, dressed much like the ones from before. Though she was still choked by the weight of the fear a lone tear ran down by her cheek.

Soon they reached a building and a stranger lead her to a big room. By the look of the furniture someone lived here not so long ago. It was a room for one person, however big enough for two to live here. A masked man let Ayame inside first. She carefully passed near him and then as quick as she could took some distance from a man. Taking a sit on the bed and leaning her head to the wall, she hopelessly pointed her look into nowhere. Being tired of the constand weight of her feelings she slowly started to loose consciousness. But in a moment she heard a voice of the stranger who seemed to remain quiet for most of the time:

"They won't hurt you or your brother if he do as they ask." he said.

Ayame weakly turned her head to the stranger. His mask was hiding his emotions and words were spelled so coldly. She could not say was he told to say it to her, or did he say it to cheer her. But in either case his words made her feel slightly better. In response she weakly smiled to him and said "A... Arigatou.."

This appreciation seem to surprise him as it took a couple of seconds for him to answer "You are welcome."

The man did not seem that scarry to her now as he was before. For a moment she forgot that he was a reason that all this happen. She thouht that she would feel safer in his presense then without him. Though she did not dare to ask this yet. Her mind was filled with worry. About Tetsuo... About her parents...

"Do you know where is my brother?" she managed to gather her courage and eventualy ask.

"No. I only know that two of you will be living here from now on. So you will see him."

The reply cheared Ayame even more. The fear let go of her almost completely. She still could not stop worrying about the people around. Fearing to stay alone she askingly looked on the man for a few moments, not daring to ask. It took a while for her to say with unsure voice "Can you please stay for a while longer?"

Those words seem to surprise a man enough to make him loose a ballance for a second. He made an uncareful step back, hitting a door with his elbow. Rushly grabbing a hurt place he pointed his look at Ayame, spelling with a light signs of pain in his voice "Your brother won't be glad to see me when he come back."

A girl chuckled for an instance. This person did not seem very scary to her any more. She would come close to check his arm, but the man turned back to the doors, dropping from behind his shoulder "You are a strange person.. I won't be too far.." and then he left.

Staying alone was not as depressing as it seemed to her before. Thanks to this person Ayame managed to drop the weight of fear she carried on the way here. Now she felt too tired, however somehow safer. Lying down on her side she calmly closed her eyes. Ayame thought that soon they will reunite with her brother again. She dreamt about it...