Winterborn

[Blighter]

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#999999]I[color=#99AA99]t really was a wonderful day, really really really was. But let's move on before I start getting lost in that memory too much.

That year, it was to be my last one at the academy. I had fought against the system, I had given in against it, I had learned, I had gained knowledge, friends, I had lost some things, but as the end of it approached, I was happy. It wasn't just like graduating with flying colors that made me so happy, it was a major plus, and it too did make me happy to see my parents at the final ceremony, proud of their little girl.

But what really made me happy was that I had found what I wanted, what I longed for and desired. I wouldn't go so far as saying I had found my "destiny" or such, but I did know what I wanted, wanted more of.

So, after a while of me being back, back at home, taking a break after those years, just spending time with my parents - I too had missed them as dearly as they had missed me - I obviously told them what it was that I was after.

They weren't that happy, especially not my father. I wanted to fly, wanted to go out into the universe, experience that wholesomeness I mentioned earlier, that feeling, the freedom, everything. But they didn't want their little girl to do it, no sir. Too dangerous. Too risky. There had been enough people who had done what I wanted to do, whose lives had reached a horrible ending, or at least an unfulfilled one.

So I told them if they weren't going to let me, I would enlist in the Rheinland Military. I had the background necessary for it, I had done excellent at the academy, I had contacts, friends, had gotten to know people who could easily help me with that. If I wanted to, I could always get what I was after there, without my parents' help.

It hadn't been the right thing to tell a former Chūsa of the Naval Forces and a former Leutnant of the Military. The series of arguments that would go on for weeks after that were the proof for it having been as wrong as humanly possible. I had screwed up big-time.