The morning sun arise from the east, the warm sunlight and the fresh air which made all the flowers bloomed carrying the morning dew. Half-Elf Valley, a town where many wooden cottages, vintage shops building, and a beautiful stone pavement road all the way from the town entrance to the mountain peak, presenting a picturesque landscape, where the residents embrace the nature by planting flowers at both sides of the stone pavement road. There is a flower circle that serves as the center point of the town, a natural water fountain with various flowers on the bank of it.

On one of the wooden cottages where the flowers were rotting near the building, the wooden cottage looks like it will collapse any second, there is a lot of nails to keep the wooden cottage intact. Inside that rundown wooden cottage, there is a young kid, still sleeping while wearing his plain dirty clothes, he is sleeping on his thin bed. He is a 15-year-old young boy, he is short boy with a height roughly 4 feet and 9 inches, his body condition is malnourished as his bones lines clearly visible. He had dark bluish hair that is so long to the point it covered his eyes, the morning sunlight pierce through his bedroom and gently touched his sleeping face, as he woke up and sits at the bed edge while raising his hands and yawning.

“*Yawn*…oh…it’s morning, already….” the young kid muttered, as he blocks the sunlight with his right hand and moved to the window, the gentle wind brushed past his dark bluish hair, revealing his eyes, it… it was so majestic, his eyes look like a little cosmic of the universe as both his eyes depicted the stars constellation. One man crossed the young kid’s house, the moment he noticed the young kid looking at him, he shown a disgusted face and hurried his steps, and minute later a family crossed the young kid’s house, the husband blocks his family vision with his long coat, he didn’t wish his family to see the young kid’s figure, as he told his family to hurry their steps.

The young kid looks at the people reactions towards him, he lowers his head and let out a long sigh, then he closed his window, soon his room became dark as tears slowly cascaded down from his eyes as he starts to feel suffocating to breath, no one see him let out his emotions, as he sits alone in his dark room where the sunlight couldn’t reach him anymore.

His parents, his grandparents, they all couldn’t reach him anymore…he was left alone forever, having to live in this large cottage, it’s all thanks to his beautiful eyes that depicted stars constellation, if he dream on the night, his eyes changed into different star constellation, the more complex it depicted the more horrible things will happened to the people around him, his parents died slaughtered by an elf that goes by name Don Rogue, his grandpa fell of from the mountain, and his grandma died from one untreatable disease, as she left the young kid 2 days ago, the worst about it all, he can’t see his parents, his grandparents face for the last time.

“*Sniffle*…I missed you all…*sniffle*…please don’t leave me alone…please…this must be a dream right?...I want to wake up from this dream please…. mom…dad…grandpa…granny, I’m lonely.” The young kid finally stops his outburst after he couldn’t shed anymore tears, he rubbed his puffy red eyes and get up from his bed, he wants to go to a place where he wouldn’t feel alone…to his grandma’s tomb.

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Two hours later…

“Finally!! we…*huff*…*huff*…arrived…fuck…I am so tired…” Conny cursed as he wipes his accumulating sweats on his forehead, and drop to the ground by leaning to the nearest tree to catch his breath. On his right hand is the Scotsman, a medium sized painting of young king Edward IV, behind him is Gerard who is laying on the ground, his face planted to the ground and his body couldn’t move anymore, he is dead tired from all the walking. Moreover, both Conny and Gerard didn’t have any breakfast, that’s why both of them become so weak, tired and starved.

Conny looks at the town in front of him, it was so beautiful to the point it made him doze off for a second, then he noticed a small hill nearby, where there is a lot of tombstones, and he noticed a young lad standing at one of the tombs, oh! there, a local!!, I guess it didn’t hurt to ask for some food from him. That’s what Conny thought as he gets up and kicks Gerard to gets up too.

“HEY! what’s your problem?! can’t you see that I am spent from all the walking, let me lay down for a minute!” Gerard protested as he looks at Conny by supporting his head with his chin from the ground.

“Suit yourself if you didn’t want to get food.” Conny ignored Gerard as he went to the young boy on the cemetery, Gerard’s ears perked up when he heard food as he forces himself to get up while gritting his teeth by loudly shouting, “GET UP FEET!! FOOD…FOR FOOD!!”

Conny face-palmed himself when he heard Gerard's embarrassing thing as the young boy clearly heard Gerard loud shouting, he turns his head to Conny, his long hair covered his eyes so Conny didn’t know whether he is looking at him or no, but it didn’t stop Conny to approach the young kid, since he was starving.

“Hello, kid, do you mind if you share some food to me?” Conny force a smile on his face to look friendly, the young kid looks at Conny and he seems to glance at the Scotsman, the mid-size painting thinking that Conny was a merchant or something, then he said, “Uhh… but I don’t have any food with me, I-I c-could get you some.” The young kid scratches his left hand with his right hand, then Conny finally realized that the young kid in fact is starving too just like him since his bone lines and malnourished body were clearly visible.

“Oh… well…this is awkward… man… then, uh where is your parents?” Conny hesitantly asked hoping maybe the young kid’s parents could give him food and maybe a place to stay. The young kid lowered his head and answered Conny question,

“they left me forever…” hearing the young kid’s answer made Conny inhaled some air and exhaled it while he closed his eyes as he inwardly said, Fuck!!… I shouldn’t ask that stupid question!!

“I’m sorry kid…well then, I’m sorry to bother you… you may continue doing what you’re doing earlier, and goodbye, I hope we meet again soon.” Said Conny waving his hands to the young kid, as Conny helped Gerard to walk by giving him a shoulder to support Gerard’s weak body, the two weird figures of that group of people left quite an impression to the young kid as he looks at the bright sky and his hair scattered, revealing his eyes that depicted a stars constellation, the word from that young man stuck inside his mind, meet again soon…

As the young kid wondered what is the meaning of that young man’s word because when a person said that word, they will never meet again, if they indeed meet again then it’s fated.