"Have you heard about it?"
 
"A land free of monsters, filled with blooming flowers said to not be found anywhere else."
 
"The people there are in a state of constant harmony, with angels singing to their heart's content."
 
"There's no sadness. There's no suffering. There's no evil."
 
"If you ever found it... would you take me there?"
 


The white-haired girl felt exhausted. She had been travelling Korvara for a while and facing different circumstances one after another, some worse than others, while making several new friendships along the way and forming strong bonds. It all happened simply because she woke up surrounded by trees, without any memory of what happened to her before she ended up there. There were only two things that she could remember when she awakened.
  
Her name, and her purpose: to find a place no one has ever seen.
 
Nearly every time she would meet someone and be given the opportunity, she would describe the land she'd be looking for: a peaceful world with harmony, unique flowers and singing angels. Many of the mixed answers she'd receive would often run back to the same thing.
 
"A place like that exists? I haven't seen it, sorry."
"That sounds like it's out of a fairy tale... does that even exist? I've not heard of it."
"That sounds too good to be true. It'd be pretty nice if there was a place like that, though."
   
The search proved fruitless once again.
 
In spite of the idea that such place would never exist, her heart and soul retained the desire to find it. 
 
She remembered nothing more than glimpses of things she might've done in the past, but she knew for certain that finding this paradise was the very thing she lived for.
 
So she would rest within the Duyuei inn, in order to try again the next day.
 
Again, and again...
  
...
 
As the girl drifted off to sleep, she witnessed nothing but black for a moment, before the ground surrounding her would be filled with brilliant white flowers. They were nothing she had ever seen before, immediately entrancing her with their nigh-magical beauty. She slowly sat up... then stood up to take gentle steps across the landscape.
  
The girl tenderly picked up a flower from the ground in order to get a closer gaze at its radiance. She questioned not the abstract nature of the environment, instead wondering how such a flower could exist.
 
"I wish..."
 
Raelyn held the flower with both of her hands and closed her eyes.
 
"I wish for a sign. From a treasure... from a person, from a star. From anything."
  
As she opened her eyes, she witnessed another person standing on the other side of the abyssal flower field. An individual that looked just like herself, but with a serene smile and blue eyes. The other girl caught her attention and caused her confusion, but not alarm.
  
"It's been a long time." The newfound twin would greet Raelyn with a soft-spoken voice.
 
Raelyn didn't know who this person was, only that she looked just like her, and yet somehow felt very familiar.
    
"Your face... it really reminds me of myself. Down to the expression, even. You really are just like me."
   
"You're looking for it, aren't you? Paradise."
   
Raelyn said nothing to the other girl, remaining completely silent as she was spoken too. The twin reached for a flower just like she had, and stood in front of her while maintaining that soothing smile of hers.
   
"You truly are just like me..."
 
As soon as that was said, ghost-like figures began rising from the black ground around them. Raelyn started looking around frantically, unable to understand what was going on. The souls abruptly forced themselves into her body, the scenery beginning to rapidly shift with imageries of several different memories. All of them vague, yet their emotions could be surely felt, quickly overwhelming her heart.
   
"We have always been with you... and will always be."
   
The girl would slowly reach for Raelyn's hand, and make direct eye contact with her.
   
"Because, you are..."
     
Suddenly, the Amalgama would wake up from her sleep and sit on the bed. Her breathing was heavy, and her heart rate accelerated. Upon acknowledging that it was all a dream, she'd let out a sigh and get off the bed.
        
She chose to take a quick glance at the mirror in the room, and a moment later, she realized that something was different.
     
Her eyes had a stronger blue to them compared to before.

"Again and again..."
 
"Repeating, endlessly, until there's nothing left."
 
"My emotions..."
 
"My life."
 
"For eternity."
 


Duyuei had begun its advance against the winged monstrosity of the Wastes known as Larai Dua. Raelyn felt the need to assist in the effort in whatever way she could, primarily because of her friendship with Mergaline. After all, Mergaline was one of the first people she met after she had awakened from her memory loss. One of her very first friends. As if fate sought to play cruel, their group became one of the first to battle against the Behemoth during the commotion of the hellish desert.

 

Mergaline had been severely wounded, and almost lost her life in the fight. Raelyn began losing her composure as soon as she realized that once again, she was completely helpless in an attempt to protect her friend's life. Once Larai Dua began escaping from the area, she eventually went to follow its tracks in a desperate attempt to get revenge for her friend's condition.

 

A fool's idea it was, and she definitely knew that. Even then, she continued searching day and night for the monster they battled, vainly hoping that she could finish it off. Much to her dismay, she never managed to find what she was looking for. Fatigue inevitably attacked her physical and mental energy as one night, she simply fell down on her side against the sands of the Wastes.

 

 

She quietly spoke to no one in particular, weakly turning around to face the starry sky looming across the world.

 

 

The girl fell silent for a time, before tears began breaking out of her eyes and streaming down the sides of her face.

 

 

She shut her eyes in agony... and after a few moments, the world around her suddenly changed. She once found herself in that beautiful flower field she had seen in her dreams, with a white-haired, blue-eyed woman possessing an appearance nearly identical to her own standing close-by. Raelyn's eyes quickly caught the new arrival, and so she would sit up to face her with apparent confusion.

 

 

The woman began speaking to her with a light smile on her face, slowly walking towards the agonized Amalgama and eventually stopping a short distance away from her.

 

"Always... end up with the same problem?" Raelyn asked, even more puzzled than before.

 

Suddenly, the area distorted and changed appearance once more, sending the pair into a room with overly fancy decorations, and a high-quality looking bed. There was a red-haired girl with forlorn, green eyes, sitting on the edge of the mattress. The Amalgama stared at the redhead, her eyes widening in disbelief as she recognized her appearance.

 

 

The door leading up to the room had been slammed open as a man with an obscured face angrily stomped into the room. He violently pushed the girl off the bed and shouted at her,

 

 

The girl would silently bring a hand to her cheek after falling onto the ground, trying her best to not look him in the eyes. Unfortunately for her, he immediately got closer and pulled her up to face her with intense scorn.

 

 

However, she remained silent and simply kept glancing away from him. Anywhere but him.

 

 

The man would fling the red-haired girl off to the side, much like an angry child discarding their toy, and stormed out of the room. Once she made sure he was gone, she started quietly sobbing and letting out the tears she wouldn't otherwise let go.

 

Raelyn's mouth remained open and at a loss for words. She was processing the memory she was witnessing in her own little world. Before she finally settled on saying something, the environment proceeded to change itself once more, warping and forming a forestal area with a small house in its middle. Caught off-guard, she frantically looked around and spotted a blonde-haired girl with an appearance identical to the one from the previous vision. Unlike the other one, she seemed rather happy, jumping across the grassfield after coming out of a gathering of trees and going to meet an elder woman sitting on a chair by the entrance of the house.

 

 

She went to immediately wrap her arms around the old woman with a smile as bright as the sun itself. Her grandmother let out a soft chuckle as she partially returned the gesture, as best as she could from her position anyway.

 

"I'm not cute!" The blonde immediately retorted.

 

Raelyn struggled to make heads or tails about what was present before her very eyes. All she could tell was that both girls she has seen in these visions looked extremely similar to her. There were so many figures in this little world of hers that possessed her appearance.

 

The world quickly cycled through day and night, over and over, until the situation completely changed. Instead of a heartwarming sight, the blonde girl was sitting next to her now weak and old grandmother, holding her hand and doing her best to not cry her heart out.

 

"Don't look at me like that, Raelyn... you're going to make me sad. We've spent a nice time together..." A chuckle escaped the elder.

 

 

Her grandmother fell silent for a time... pondering about something. She soon had a soft smile on her face as she lightly grasped the blonde's hand.

 

 

She was met with a look that was both curious and vaguely agonized.

 

"A land with strange, but beautiful flowers...?" Her granddaughter quietly repeated.

 

 

The blonde silently stared at the woman and proceeded to tear up, making an attempt at controlling her sobbing to no avail. However, she answered,

 

And so, her grandmother would shut her eyes with a growing smile...

 

"No... please don't go..." Raelyn ended up begging the woman to not disappear, despite not being involved in the vision herself. She could only watch her past self attempt to mentally brace herself for her grandmother's passing. Raelyn rose up to a stand and tried to reach for her family's hand, but the environment instantly distorted and returned to its original state of a white flower field, throwing the girl off-balance and causing her to fall on her knees. She observed her empty hands in agony.

 

 

The blue-eyed woman merely spoke out that one line, shifting her gaze towards the pained girl. Raelyn, being in a sensitive state of mind, found herself irritated by the woman's commentary. She swayed her hand to the side and raised her voice,

 

 

Her sorrow was met with a cold, empty gaze from the woman standing near her. She approached Raelyn and bent down to look her in the eyes.

 

 

Raelyn had stopped crying halfway through the words of her blue-eyed replica. Or, perhaps, all things considered, -she- was the replica. For whatever reason, she was an Amalgama that possessed the same appearance as the person that spoke to her. She never truly knew the answer why, and just imagined that such answer was located in one of her long-forgotten memories. However, there was something she begun to believe.

 

 

She wiped away at her tears and quickly rose up to a stand, turning her head towards the woman.

 

The woman blinked a couple of times. She eventually let out a confused chuckle.

 

"Then I'll make it so I have a say in the matter." Raelyn angrily responded.

 

 

 

  

The blue-eyed woman was at a loss for words. There was probably no way of convincing the girl at this point. Her expression became devoid of life before she turned around and began walking away from Raelyn.

 

 

Raelyn suddenly opened her eyes and realized she was still in the middle of the Wastes at night, so she became alarmed and quickly searched her surroundings for threats. Thankfully, the area she fell asleep in was a slightly safer one. Relieved from the lack of enemies, she once more set her eyes upon the starry sky above.

 

She was silently taking in the beautiful sight before her. After a moment, she held up a part of her hair and brought it in front of her face, right in between her eyes and the moonlight.

 

"... I'm not like you." She said, beginning to cast a minor spell as focus began leaking out of her hand. The hair strands she was holding would fade from a pure white to golden.