Toya's House
In the bathroom, Roy gets horrible nausea. He begins to vomit into the toilet, and after a few minutes of sitting on the floor, he wearily stands up. He looks at himself in the mirror, and wipes the side of his mouth. He rinses his mouth, and washes his face. He seems better than he has the whole day, but still tired.
He checks his breath
Fine
and cleans himself up.
He walks out the door to see Toya sprawled across her floor. He also notices that the young girl is gone. He tries to wake her, to no avail, so instead he picks her up and gently puts her on the couch.
Roy walks outside, looking for the little girl. After searching for a few minutes, he returns inside and sits at the table. He sees a note with his name on it. Roy's eyes widen. He quickly grabs it, and reads it over.
Who could've wrote this?
He looks over at Toya, who is soundly sleeping. In the back of his mind he knew the note was talking about her. He was imagining every possible situation.
Could they be after her because of me? Are they even after her? Could this all be because of me? And who is they? Who would want to harm me? I'm no one, and my family has been living in solitude for years.
He couldn't be sure of any questions or hypothetical answers he thought up.
Roy takes the note, and folds it up, shoving it into his back pocket.
Roy takes a knee next to the couch on which Toya lays unconscious on. He tries to wake her up.
"Hey Toya, get up!"
After a few seconds, her eyes open, and she sits up.
"Toya, what happened? Where's the little girl?"
"I don't know, she left or something."
Roy replies
"I came out of the bathroom and you were on the floor"
Toya says
"I was?"
And she shrugs.
Roy stands up, and remembers what was written on the note.
Should I leave this place? I can't just leave her here! She said her sister had a mansion in Central Isola, and thats pretty near to the university. But what if I'm the one that is putting her in trouble? I guess that's a risk I'm gonna have to take
"Toya, you said you were thinking about going to the university?"
"Yeah, but there are a lot of decisions I need to make, like whether I can study healing there, and -"
Roy interrupts
"I think you and I should go together. What do you say?"
Toya smiles and blushes
"You think so?"
The both of them pause for a few moments, then Toya says
"I think that's a great idea"
Roy replies
"Great, we leave the day after tomorrow."
Roy puts on a jacket, takes some Charta out of his backpack, and opens the door.
"I'll go grab some horses"
Roy walks to a nearby stable to buy two horses.
He opens the door to look for the owner.
"Hello?"