"You know that ice clone plan was pretty ingenious," Hirune said as she stood up and walked back to class alongside Tundra.
"Well, it was only because you were comfortable enough with me taking your measurements," Tundra responded. "So I'd say it was all thanks to you."
After that nothing happened, just more boring class time and copying notes. Before heading home though, Hirune held Tundra by the hand and showed him all around Triste until dawn. Then when she was done showing him around the dusty worn-down streets of Triste with the smell of unwashed pets hitting their noses alongside the smell of the sea, she looked at him and said, "I'm sorry about what bad me did. I mean, in retrospective it wasn't as bad as it could've been, but I still feel guilty for what she did."
Tundra looked at her and shrugged, "Getting waterboarded and nearly killed isn't that bad, I'm used to it--"
"But that doesn't mean you should've experienced it again!" Hirune yelled at him, then taking a deep breath she lowered her tone. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you, it's just... I still find it frustrating you had to deal with that and, I want to make up for it."
Tundra stared into the distance as they kept walking without answering. There wasn't really anything he needed, and he didn't mind dealing with the bad her because he understood that she wasn't her.
Hirune bumped into him, "Come on! You've got to want at least one thing! It can be anything you want; I just want to make up for what I did."
he stopped walking, "Alright then, I want you to stop blaming yourself. If what that girl said was true and her memories went to you, you should know that she wasn't the real you and that you weren't in control of yourself at that moment."
Hirune rolled her eyes, "Fine, if that's what you want, I'll try. But I also want to show you something, it's really far though."
"If it's you inviting me, I've got time," he responded as Hirune held his hand tightly and looked around, her eyes landing on top of a nearby two-story building, "Devour Distance." As she said these words, the devourer jaws came out of her feet and swallowed them both whole before spitting them back out on that roof.
After roughly two hours they found themselves next to El Parque Infantil, in a small little corner area of a across the street from it called Tristemoto in Hirune's hometown of Holgi. Hirune gave him a big smile, "we're here! My hometown!"
Tundra looked around at the empty streets and dimed down light poles, a large tree next to them with decently large fruit bats hanging on it, a bunch of kids messing around under them. Hirune took a look at those kids, didn't see their parents around and called out, "Oye! Ya son las una vayanse antes de que venga el Hombre del Saco y se los lleve!" (Translation: "Hey! It's already one A.M go home before the sack man comes to take you away!")
The kids screamed and laughed then went off running in the same direction. Hirune giggled and looked at Tundra with a big grin, "That one and your mother threatening that a random stranger next to you is going to take you away when you're misbehaving and them playing along with her always work."
Tundra laughed, "Can't really blame that logic. I'm guessing you want to show me around here?"
"So, you aren't as dense as you seem sometimes!" She teased as she took him by the hand again and started walking around the block. Pointing at each house and reminiscing over the smallest of memories she had near them with the biggest smile on her face. Then she pointed to a bowling alley, "Besides the park right behind us that was one of my favorite places! These low-quality blobby car rides would always be there and each time I'd want to ride one, same for one that spun around! They even had these bikes that you'd tilt on, and the screen would show you in a race with you turning every time you tilted the bike! Oh~! And there were also those arcade basketball games!" Her smile faded a little as she looked at it with a solemn expression, "Last time I was here though it'd changed a lot. Most of the machines didn't work, only the basketball and a new mediocre arcade fighter thingy, as for the bowling part I have no clue if it changed, I never did that part either time."
Then she turned around and her expression turned to pure sadness, "And this park... It used to be a beautiful park with many children playing around in the front, a bunch of big-big cages that you could probably fit a small crowd of people in the back with these cages holding many different types of birds. There was also this large pen with these beautiful peacocks that were paired with not so beautiful turkeys, but they were both pretty nice looking back at it. Oh, and there was this larger caged off body of water that held two or three alligators! Or maybe it was crocodiles? I don't remember. The best part though was the little store in the middle where you could buy a pet fish or bird! I remember Namulenza buying me a couple of goldfish and peces escalares (angelfish) together!"
She laughed as she recalled that memory. "The employee told us that they could be put in the same tank but soon enough we found out that was a lie as they beat the goldfish to the point that they died! I was so sad when she flushed the dead goldfish down the toilet," then she laughed even harder as she said the next part. "Then she flushed down one of the escalares (angelfish) down the toilet with the other two in a bag facing towards her flushing the one. Then-- ha-ha! Then she looked at the ones in the bag and threatened to flush them down the toilet too if they kept on killing the goldfish as if they were conscious enough to understand her!"
She wiped her eyes as she giggled, "That was truly something!"
Tundra laughed at her story finding it hilarious, "Okay, you have to be exaggerating this story!"
"I'm not though! That's nearly exactly how it happened!"
"You're truly something. Do you have any more stories like that?" He asked while smiling at her. There was genuine interest in his eyes as they sat down on the high ledge separating the area the part was on from the flat area that people could ride their bikes and play football (European), the ledge was actually so tall that you could kick your feet off of it.
Hirune stared at the sky as she reminisced of even more stories of her past, like the time her friend fake bit her, then she actually bit her friend which led to Namulenza biting her to teach her that it was wrong. How she could never fall asleep at daycare so she would go into the caretaker's room, who became like an aunt to her and draw while the other children slept and many more.