Iep, sighing, opened her eyes to what seemed to be quite the formidable landscape ...

Her current spot was ontop of a cliff, a steep and deep drop to her north transitioning into the nothingness that was a drop abruptly and ofcourse the sea began at the feet of this mighty cliff, seemingly whipping against it with her waves of water in an attempt to make this great watcher fall to his knees, in vain ofcourse!

The grass around her was rich, tall and in the juiciest of greens it would cover anything smaller than half a meter, this seemingly endless overgrowth at times ofcourse stopped by a rock or two and maybe a tree growing even taller!

Had Iep been honest to herself, would it have been quite evident, that she did infact not know how she got to this site, though did the girl desperatly and subconsciously push that away and simply thought about how amnesia or spacing out must be a problem and that everything was fine...

It didn't matter though... At the current time her stomach was filled with relief without ofcourse knowing why exactly that had been the cause ...

Was it the beautiful sunny weather that tickled her happyness?

Perhaps the sheer sight was enough...?

Maybe even the smell of lemongrass.

Pondering over such was meaningless though ... Some feelings were too beautiful for Iep to find a reason for them, too precious would just a small tint of what makes her happy be to this girl as to challenge it and in the end maybe ruin the effect it had? Like listening to the lyrics of an upbeat song and realizing a person like Kouki composed them and actually made the song tell the tale of a girl and how her father would eat her inners from her perspective... Surely, the song would lose the happy parts of it once analyzed.

Now though?

Iep stood up and let her eyes begin to grope her surroundings for any little feature to be found in the sea of endless green, until she did actually catch a sight wich would prove itself to be useful for what Iep planned to actually do ...

"A road! ...... It'll probably take ages to walk back to the next city though..."

The girl let out a soft and girlishly voiced sigh before beginning to journey torwards the asphalt saviour of hers, afterall she'D have had no idea where to go at all if not for this conveniently placed road she had here.

Sadly ofcourse, there were no cars driving down to be spotted in this entire hour that she made her way down the path, wich ofcourse was stupidly unkempt, cracks and sometimes even little holes in the way making the walking even less comfortable than it could've been ...Her way of thinking probably was something along the lines of ...

"I have to walk ... No one's gonna pick me up out of nowhere and drive me all the way to tow-"

Suddenly she could hear the whirring engine of what must've been either a really loud car or, on the more normal side, a motocycle, afterall these always proved to be deafening to one's ears and once Iep got as far as to turn around and look into the direction of whom was to come, a little yellow Vesper type motorcycle, if one could even go as far as to call it one stopped right infront of her or ... keeping atleast a meter of distance to not seem like the driver was drunk and tried to drive her over perhaps?

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"Yo, in need of a drive here aren't we?"

The voice was of male nature, it also bore a somewhat young tone to it, Ieps' assumption of the drivers gender, one wich was quickly confirmed when he took his helmet off to reveal a guy, one definetly older than our beloved Iep, with short unkept brown hair and an athletic build, his eyes of a color reminiscent of steel and with a goatee so silly looking on his chin, that it would have alone been proof enough that he would be the kind who drank warm beer in the evening and worked parttime in a grocery shop ... Well ... That was probably a weird thought to have crossed her brain but Iep's head was not completly empty, things she could remember would be books and movies for one, aswell as education, nothing too advanced though ... Or so she thought, for all of it was blurry ... Heck ... Knowing what she did now, the world could have ended without even noticing!

"So ... You need a ride ...?"

"Ouh uhm... Y...Yes that would be nice... Since i don't know how much further it would be ... "

"What...? How'd you get here without knowing where the city's ?"

"Don't ask."

"Fine.... The name's Ronn by the way. Nice to meet cha..... uh?"

"Iep..."

"Ie-?"

"Don't ask."

Ronn looked stumped ... Never had je ever met a person named in a weird manner like Iep, so the first thing to think? Ever the girl lied or she was a foreign newcomer to this place.

Well ... It didn't matter and so he handed her the way too big helmet and sighed, wich ofcourse the girl clumsily held in her hands for a brief moment, after wich she put the red neoprene headwear on and followed onto the Vesper .... A very unrespectable bike.

"So .. Havin' newcomers in Bangleton's a rare thing you know...? How comes i didn't hear someone new would move in?"

"Ah uhm... Well... eh... I don't really recall how i got here in the first place."

"I see... If you want you can use the phone at my mum's house ... Should take us like ten minutes when i speed to get there!"

And with these words, the boys hands turned on the stereo, starting some sort of instrumental rock heavy on guitars and bass before suddenly pressing his feet down hard on the acceleration to leave Iep terrorised by how fast this vesper of all things managed to be ... 150 KM/h !?

Surely, this one was not an ordinary vesper,though Iep was happy that when it would take ten minutes at this speed, she wouldn't have to walk ...

"Thank you ... Mis-....uhm... Ronn"

An elbow hit her when she tried to say Mister... All he did was give a thumbs up with made her stomach turn ... Takng a hand off the controls at these speeds ...

Did he plan on killing them both here ?!