Calm, almost tranquil atmosphere. That is Vinere, a village on the south of Mure forest. A normal village you can see as a good place for vacation, not counting the possibility of local fauna attacks and some bandits visit. In the place where youngling was rare, a baby was born.
A baby, with blue and red eyes.
"Misha, quick! The water!" Said one of the nurses. The house is filled with the baby's cries. It was quite cramped in there because almost half of the village attend the birth. Children were rare in Venere, and the birth of one is the sign of hopes.
"Here Dea" Misha handed a bucket of warm water and cleaned the baby.
"Look Ven, it's our baby." The mother, who has white long hair and green eyes, said to his husband with a small and weak voice.
"Yes Mira, it's a boy! He will be a good-looking one, like me." Ven said jokingly.
"I hope he won't be like you, who is scared of his own shadow."
"H-h-hey! Don't bring that up here!" Ven became embarrassed due to Mira teasing. Dea gives the baby to Mira, who is noticing the baby red and blue eyes.
"Hmm? His eyes are strange, it's different." Said Mira.
"Oh! Could he be an Erea child?" Answered Ven "Erea child usually have different eyes color right?"
"But Erea children are born with black and white eyes." Mira pondered for a little, before deciding that the matter is not too important, as the baby is healthy and the eye color matched with her and Ven's. She prayed for the wellness of her child.
It was soon night, and the village is in a festive mood, because of the children. There are many people dancing, the men are drinking, the women are singing and dancing. The whole village is celebrating the festival of birth.
It soon reached the climax of the event. The naming of the baby. The parents, together with their baby, stood in front of the chief. The parents wore their ceremonial outfit, a black and white apparel, same with everybody.
"It was now the time to name the baby of Mira and Ventus, who will succeed the will of this village. Before I declared the name, do the parents want to add a name of their own, or a part of it?" The chief said.
"I want to give him the name Fira." Said Mira.
"Then I give him the name Shay." Said Ventus.
"Then we begin. In the night of the 7th Vila of year 735. I hereby declared, The first son of Mira Inque, and Ventus Niva, will be named Rifira Shay Venere, which mean The mirror of Venere. He will be the one to reflect the nature of our village, a hardworking, smart..." The chief continues his speech until midnight.
After the festival, everyone went back to their house, drunk men were dragged by their wife and the only one still awake are the guards. Shay slept with his parent, at least they think so.
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'So this is our new body.' Shay thought, or to be more accurate, a part of Shay thought.
'It feels very weird to have two souls like this, it's like a Jaeger.' Another part of Shay thought this one seems more feminine than the other thought.
'What should we call each other now? I'm can't call you Shay right? It's like calling you me.'
'But I am you!' The feminine thought giggled.
'Please don't repeat that scene'
'How about Feminine and Masculine? Or Romeo and Juliet?'
'Rejected. How about I call you A and you call me B?'
'Okay.'
'Wait! I'm just kidding!'
'How about using our old name?'
'True, why I didn't think of it earlier. So I will be Ren, and you will be Miwa.'
'Are you sure that you are Ren? Not the other way around?'
'Please don't scare me.'
The two are in a state they never felt before. It's almost like floating inside of their body. They feel like they are separate yet one. Miwa tells Ren that they should try moving, so they try moving their left leg, but the result is not quite satisfactory.
'I feel like we are bound with rope and trying to move to opposite direction' thought Ren. 'it can't be helped, we are trying the unknown after all. Normal logic won't work.'
'How about splitting up the task? Right left or up down?' Miwa said.
'I think it will be less efficient...' Then Ren realized something, in this whole time, they spoke with only their mind, it was so natural that he forgot about it. 'Hey, aren't we currently talking with our minds? Then won't the same work with our body?'
'What do you mean? You always explain with words I don't understand.'
'It means we have to think as one, yet separate!'
'Aren't we are like that now?'
'It's not the same, we each think as we own the body, not sharing it. To put it simply, we have to train ourselves to know what the others thinking subconsciously. For example, if we want to walk, someone will move one of the legs, the other already prepared the next action, but it must match, so we must train ourselves in it.'
'I see...' Miwa thought deeply, trying to summarize Ren explanations 'So it basically a computer with two processor, we share the workload, but we must in sync while doing so.'
So they spent the night practicing, making simple movement with the new mindset, they begin to understand each other more. Their movement became more and more refined, but sometimes they still stumble and fall. Months passed, Shay who is still under one year old only spent his day like a usual baby, but not his souls. The village is a small one, according to Ren and Miwa observation. It only has a population of about 54 people, with him as the only children, the next younger would be Shirar the apprentice blacksmith, who is already 14.
The people seem to speak English, surprisingly the modern one. Ren and Miwa sometimes hear unfamiliar words like Firams, Touriyam, and Piha.
"Ooh, who's my little boy? Who's my little boy" Mira tickled Shay's body, which caused him to laugh cheerfully?
Mira and Ventus, Shay's parents, are farmers. They are very dedicated to their jobs. Usually, Ventus go to the field in the morning, and Mira only helps sometimes, as she needs to take care of Shay. They are what people would call ideal parents, but sometimes...
"Ah! Shay! I'm sorry I left you in the Barn!"
"Shay! I forgot I left you in the bookshelves!"
"Oh! How could I left Shay under the bed!"
These happen. When this happens, usually Mira will shout looking for her baby while crying in the village, while Ventus try to calm her down.
'Ren.'
'Yes?'
'Mom is dangerous.'
'Agree.'
Ventus is different in handling Shay. He usually carries him in the back with a basket while working. He usually he tells him stories about magic beings like Rinkee, a monkey with deer-like horns that like to hunt alone, or a Jumira, a Huge bear that live deep down in the earth, eating mushrooms. But Shay's favorite story is about dragons, the king of creatures.
"A dragon is any being that already receives strength beyond most creature in the world. A creature, once powerful enough, will evolve to a dragon. The shape of the dragon itself varies depend on what creature it was."
Shay became excited because he wanted to hear more about the world.
"Wow, do you think he understands my story?"
"He is a smart child." Said Mira "At least smarter than you."
"Hahaha, I think it's true."