falsamilitis:

Good.

Perhaps this wouldn’t end with him taking yet another child home due to an unfortunate abandoning, or from being torn away from those they loved, or yet another young life having been turned into one more tragedy. A droplet of sadness to add to the mix.

This world had already seen too much pain.

     ❝Then we’d better take you back to them.❞  

A hopeful suggestion, knowing well that he wouldn’t have the heart to simply drive away and leave her alone. She’d more than likely struggled enough through the forest on her own; and while the village he’d taken to was modest and friendly and gentle, nowhere would ever be completely safe.

Not even for someone like him. 

      ❝They nearby?❞

A muted inquiry, followed by yet another— one he probably should’ve asked initially. 

      ❝—What’s your name?❞

         _{The feared question of where, of the point of origin, and she had to glance away from him for a moment and off into another direction entirely for a moment before looking at him once more. For all that he had helped her she had not quite expected him to say that he would help return her to the place where she had come from, before she had supposedly gotten lost. Then again she likely should have expected that, given everything that had happened between them up until that point.}

                  _{Perhaps she did have people to return to, people who she would always be happy to see once more because they were there and they were people who mattered to her, yet she could not say they were nearby. Simply because–}

                                    _{”No, they’re not nearby.”}

         _{Perhaps moving onto the next subject would allow them to gloss over the fact that she was certainly far from the place she would return to, from the people that she could imagine returning to. After all, she was literal worlds away, and while it would not be difficult to get back to Twilight Town—once her powers began responding to her again, fickle as they were—she couldn’t exactly explain that.}

                                                      _{And anyways, formal introductions were long overdue.}

                           _{”—My name is Naminé.”}