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Characters: Eiji and Ilda
Date: Late May
Location: Around Aifaran
Situation: Dealing with guilt and annoyingly persistent parasites
Warnings/Rating: Dead and dying children (from their canons), survivor's guilt


When the space parasites were first noticed, Eiji was quickly isolated and decontaminated, killing his infection before it could cause any problems. Or so he'd thought. The problem was that his Talent for restoring recently rotted organic matter to life? It also applied to the parasites. He was just as infected as he'd been in the beginning, except he had plenty of reasons to be in denial about it.

And that denial was why he was still wandering through the city, looking for a little girl that he knew had died a year ago in his world. Someone he'd failed to help. But it was easier to be in denial and insist he was okay and so was she, rather than face the truth all over again.

"Alfreed? Are you here?"

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[ilda]

Ilda had resumed her morning walks only a couple of days ago, finally deciding that it was time to put the fiasco behind her and move on with her life in Aifaran. Or, at least, she tried to. The fear and paranoia the space parasites had brought to her might not have been real, but the reaction they'd gotten out of her had been very much so.

She avoided The Temple, of course. The priests would probably remember her for starting the riot; the damage had only been minimal, but she'd managed to work up a crowd into attacking it. It certainly wasn't her finest moment.

She was near the docks when she heard a familiar voice, and she turned around just in time to see Eiji coming out of the corner. She remembered him from the rescue mission.

"Eiji! Hi!" she called out, walking over to him.