The top floor of the ferry was white, and the the light that shined from the darkened clouds helped brighten it, the floor looked as though it was coated in a field of snow, with the only things noticable in this white void are the people standing around It, concerned by the oncoming dark weather.

  A young teenage girl with white skin was sitting on one of the benches that was on this floor, her eyes were closed and a satchel was by her side, her hands wrapped around It protectively. She wasn't properly asleep, as she just wanted to close her eyes and just, wanted to be in a quiet area for the duration of this ferry ride and enjoy the sound of the harsh ocean waves, she preferred hearing that then calmer waves.

  "Um, excuse me." A haggard voice asked, which caused the girl to open her eyes. The girl was listening to music on her phone to help pass the time, since she knew listening to music can help drift away from darker, more depressing thoughts.

  The girl didn't seem to mind the approaching Older Woman that was waltzing over to her, she turned and smiled towards her.

  The girl had short brown hair with a hair ornament at the side, which consisted of a small creature that had multiple eyes across it's green body. It looked like an alien but It was actually an evil monster from a movie franchise that she liked involving kaiju that fought other kaiju that threaten Earth.

  Although this monster lived underground in the kaiju movie that it was from, it's design was still influenced by the Martian from the 1953 movie adapation of War of the Worlds.

  The girl wore a pink cardigan and a white shirt underneath it, she also wore a pink skirt with white socks and bck shoes.

  "Is something wrong?" Celosia Barnes, the girl in question, asked the Woman when she got close to her. The Old Woman had white skin wore a cardigan simir to Celosia's, she had grey hair that was wrapped in a bun but a long green skirt, the Woman smiled, her body trembling slightly due to her age.

  "I've been standing around for the duration of this trip and that small sitting area inside is a bit full." The Woman pointed towards the window behind them. Celosia and the Woman looked into it and saw various people inside talking amongst themselves.

  "I was wondering If I can sit down until we arrive?" The Woman asked, there was clearly an open spot next to Celosia, but she wanted to be polite and asked the girl first, Celosia would gently nod.

  "Sure, you can sit here, I don't mind." Celosia beamed.

  "Oh, you're such a kind girl." The Old Woman began sitting down next to Celosia who scoffed at her compliment, but she did it quietly so the Old Woman didn't hear her. If only other people in Agatho thought that way about her...

  But then again, she wasn't e?x?a?c?t?l?y? the best girl in the world.

  The two women remained quiet, as Celosia wasn't the kind of person to start a conversations, whenever she does, they, often don't go so well.

  "So, are you here on vacation before school starts again?" The Woman asked, Celosia was gazing at the darkened clouds looming in the sky. She was relieved by the question, as it was a normal question, nothing that would bring about anger towards her like other questions that she was asked.

  Although it did give her a bitter reminder as to why her and her family were heading to Fmel in the first pce.

  "I'm actually moving to Fmel with my family." She answered back to the Woman, turning towards her before gesturing towards the stairs nearby, it's colour was bronze, separating it from the snow like floor the two were on.

  "But I came up here just to get away from them for a few hours. Their a pain in the ass to be around, especially my Mom." Celosia id back on the bench, expecting the Woman to be surprised by Celosia's blunt answer, like with most people that she talks too, If she was, then Celosia was ready to leave for another part of the ferry so she wouldn't offend the Woman any longer.

  It would give her an opportunity to have a blunt before she meets back up with her family too.

  But the Woman ughed instead. "Yeah, retives can be bastards to deal with at times." Her answer surprised Celosia instead, causing her to smirk.

  "I know what it's like, Mom and Dad, they weren't exactly the best people in my life. I left them with the first chance I got, to go through my own path." The Woman revealed. Celosia soon became invested with the Woman's life story, even though they were going to arrive soon to Fmel and thus, she wouldn't be able to hear all of it.

  Celosia also knew that this was likely going to be the only time they talked in their lives, but, she found this encounter pleasant so far.

  "Wasn't it, hard?" Celosia asked, the Woman nodded gently.

  "It was at first, It was hard having limited options and a roof under your head, but I had friends to help me during those hard times." The Woman smiled.

  "And I couldn't be any happier, thanks to them." The Woman thought about her friends some more, they were gone now, thanks to age. Celosia wished that she still had a friend with her to help her during tough nights with her family.

  "Do you think something like that will happen to me?" Celosia wondered, she had doubts that something like that will happen and things in Fmel will just be like Agatho.

  "People often others like them that they will connect too, even if it takes awhile, and even if their connections with them are temporary, they'll find more connections that will st longer and who will be there for them when they need help." The Woman didn't look at Celosia, instead, she kept her focus on the looming dark clouds.

  "Have you been to Fmel before?" She asked Celosia.

  Celosia had, been to Fmel a few times back when she was a child. Her parents never really liked the Isnd that much, they only go to see their nephews whenever Peter and Evelyn were hosting an event, like a family reunion, a birthday for them or their bastard sons or something reted to Peter's job on the Fmel council that the extended Barnes family should be there for to show that they care somewhat for Peter's achivements.

  Her mother, Isobel Roberts only saw Evelyn as someone she could nag too about about Celosia or Gio and his, reliance to his pills, while Gio himself would spend most of the time avoiding his brother Peter In favour of those pills, he rather prefers to be in a world of his own then face reality.

  Peter and Evelyn would let them be, seeing as how it was a waste of time trying to argue with them regarding their habits.

  Celosia often noticed that Peter and Evelyn never really pay any attention to their sons whenever her and her family came by. She always felt that they were, ashamed of them, even if they never really stated it out loud, but they never bring them up whenever they spend time with Celosia.

  In fact, the two felt more like parents to her then her actual parents, they acted as though she was the daughter that they never had, and it was one of the few times that Celosia was happy to be around people.

  Why do bad things have to happen to people that don't deserve it?

  Why do people like them have to leave?

  Was it, he?r? ?f?a?u?l?t???

  Does her presence c?u?r?s?e? the people around her to have something terrible happen to them?

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  "Yeah, but just to see retives." Celosia answered back to the Woman, a frown forming on her lips.

  "One of them's gone now, the other is, in a coma." Celosia noticed the sullen look on the Woman's face when she brought up what happened to her retives.

  "Your st name's not Barnes is it?" The Woman asked.

  "Yeah, it is." Celosia answered, the Woman paused, as if she came to a realisation.

  "Oh." The Woman sounded surprised.

  "Oh." She repeated herself, becoming sullen again.

  "I'm sorry, I'm visiting retives too, ones that aren't alive anymore either." The Woman revealed.

  "Thankfully." She muttered under her breath in relief.

  Celosia smiled a little, thinking back about the good times she had with Peter and Evelyn, as well as her aunt Louisa and her boyfriend, uncle Basaran, even if Celosia could barely remember him compare to the other three, the st time she saw him, she was around two, she thinks, she then continued.

  "This is my first time coming back since I was tweleve." Celosia revealed, it had been two years since she had st set foot on Fmel and she wondered how much has changed on the Isnd since then, probably nothing much, but this pleasant conversation she was having with this Woman was helping her take her mind off of things.

  "Celosia, there you are."

  That was when she reached the top of the stairs.

  Another woman noticed Celosia and the Old Woman, she was tall, had white skin and had short bck hair with a white sleeveless shirt and a long green skirt with white shoes, she approached Celosia and the Woman.

  "Why aren't you downstairs with the rest of us?" She then turned towards the Old Woman, the stare she gave to her was one of contempt, even though the Old Woman did nothing to warrant such a stare.

  Celosia hated it whenever her mother acted, judgemental towards the people that she was talking too as she assumed just about any person she sees is dangerous.

  "Last time I checked, you wanted me to stay away from you and everyone else by the car, because my presence easily brings people down." Celosia remembered the conversation at the start of the ferry ride, she abided her mother's request, Isobel stared at her with a punishing look.

  "Well." Isobel began, her voice restrained from shouting.

  "We're almost at the Isnd, so come down now." Isobel would request, as if she was a stern teacher asking a student to come up to the front of the css, instead of a mother asking her daughter to head back to the rest of the family.

  Celosia shurgged and got up from the bench. "It was nice meeting---Celosia." Isobel would interrupt Celosia saying goodbye to the Old Woman.

  "The car." Isobel pointed towards the stairs in an impatient manner, Celosia would turn towards her mother.

  "I was just saying goodbye to her." Celosia chastised her mother.

  "Does it matter, this is the only time you'll be talking to her in her sad life." Isobel fumed a little, earning an irate stare from both Celosia and the Old Woman.

  "Yeah, like your pathetics lifes not sadder, heartless bitch." Celosia growled as she stormed past her mother to make her way downstairs and as she did, she gave a sympathetic look to the Old Woman, before leaving.

  Isobel then gred at the Old Woman, she was daring her to say something, anything about what she said to her just now, when the Old Woman remained silent, it only angered Isobel more, as it meant she wouldn't get the satisfation of the Woman's anger over calling her life sad.

  Instead, she warned her.

  "Don't you ever talk to my daughter again unless I'm around, do you understand?" Isobel shed to the Woman, speaking to her in a condescending way as if the Woman was hard of hearing.

  "You should at least give your daughter space and have her decide for herself who's safe or who's not safe to talk too, or else she'll just rebel against you." The Woman instead, gave out her own warning to Isobel.

  "But, with the way you handled things just now, I'm not surprised if she hasn't already." The Woman looked back towards the clouds once more as Isobel watched, she wanted to say something back to her, in the hopes that she would ignite an arguement from her, but she saw people coming out from the waiting room nearby.

  Isobel would turn to follow Celosia back towards the car, she didn't have any retorts for the Woman anyway.

  Not that she cares anyway, she'll die soon anyway so she saw Celosia talking to her pointless and that caused a small smile to appear on Isobel's lips as she approached the stairs leading back down to the ferry.