After some time of browsing around the shop and looking at all the clothes on display, Zaya's legs got tired and she needed to sit down.
"Let me get you a chair", Sienna said. She walked to the desk at the front of the store and found a stool behind it.
She walked over to Zaya, who was sitting on the floor, and placed the stool next to her. "Don't worry, it won't be too long now", she said with a smile.
Zaya let out a sigh, as she was so tired from standing. She hadn't done this much walking and standing in her life as she had to conserve energy and she was too concerned with keeping warm.
As she sat on the stool, swinging her legs, Zanele came down from upstairs. "I'm finished. Sorry for making you wait but I needed to make some adjustments, so that it would fit."
Zanele was carrying two dresses, one was a peachy, white colour and the other was a jade green colour. They were both plain and simple dresses that would hang over her shoulders.
"Why don't we get you to try them on and see how they look", Sanele said. Zaya, fill of excitement and with the previous fatigue vanishing, jumped up and nodded her head.
They group of three went back to the mirror room under the staircase. Zanele hang the dresses on a rail inside.
"In you get", Zanele said, while looking at Zaya. "I'll help you get changed so we can see how you look."
Zaya walked into the room and Zanele grabbed a curtain that was hung above the entrance. She pulled it and closed the curtain, to give the two privacy.
Zanele looked down at Zaya, who was looking at the rail and curtain. "Don't worry, it's just there, so that you can change without anyone seeing you. Don't want some stranger to walk in and see you change, now do we."
Zaya nodded. Zanele took the old, ragged clothes off her and put the first peachy, white dress on her. "What do you think?", Zanele asked.
Zaya looked into the mirrors and started to twirl, with the bottom of the dress floating as she moved. Her eyes started to well up with tears. Happy tears. "I love it", she said, with a smile and tears rolling down her cheeks.
Sanele smiled and opened the curtain, so that Sienna could see Zaya in her new dress. "How do you think she looks?", she asked.
Sienna looked up to see Zaya in her dress with a smile and tears running down her face. "I think she looks beautiful", she said, while wiping the tears away on Zaya's face with a handkerchief.
Zaya, full of emotions, started to cry more, as she hadn't been called beautiful in this life or the first.
Sienna just smiled and kept wiping the tears away, until Zaya grabbed hold of her and hugged her as she let out her emotions.
Once Zaya had calmed down and all the tears had been wiped away, Zanele tapped her on the shoulder. "Do you want to try the other dress?"
Zaya nodded her head and went back into the room full of mirrors. Zanele helped her change into the second dress and she showed Sienna it, but with a big smile and no tears.
Sienna just smiled back at her and complimented her again. Zaya changed back into the peachy, white dress to wear out and walked to the front with Sienna and Zanele.
"Why don't you wait outside, while I pay quickly", Sienna said to Zaya. Zaya nodded her head and skipped her way joyfully out the door.
"You don't need to pay", Zanele said. "You have done enough for me and the village over the years, plus you're going to need the money to raise a child."
The two of them looked at Zaya standing by the door, "Thank you Zanele and you're right, I probably will need it", she said with a little laugh.
"I hope you know what you're doing. Looking after a child is no easy task. Take this from someone with experience", Zanele said.
"I hope so too. Maybe this can be the start of that relaxing life I wanted to build and not filled with chaos like previous years", Sienna said.
"Well, for both your sakes, I hope it works out. If you need any help, you know where to come. My door is always open", Zanele said.
"I'm counting on it. Didn't you realise this was the first place we came. There was another reason besides close", Sienna said, with a mischievous laughter.
Zanele started to laugh, "You sneaky child. Get out before I make you pay after all", she said while shooing Sienna out the store.
Sienna started laughing even more, as she left the shop. "I'll see you around Sanele, take care of yourself", she said.
"I'm sure I will", Sanele said jokingly. "Take care of yourself as well and see you again Zaya", she said while waving the two off.
Zaya turned around, "Bye Sanele. Thank you for the clothes", she said with a big smile on her face.
Sanele just smiled and waved the two off before turning back into her store, "I hope everything works out for those two, especially that little girl", she said to herself.
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In a faraway place, staring into a floating orb, was the reincarnation warden. He watched on as Zaya and Sienna started their lives together.
As he knew the past, present and future of this world, he could already see that Zanele's worries were going be prevalent in the approaching future.
This peaceful life that the two had only started together, was about to have a wedge stuck into it.
All the reincarnation warden could do was watch at this point and allow the flow of time and fate to take place.
There were only few times a reincarnation warden could step in and affect a world. One was when a reincarnation was negatively impacting the world of their recarnation.
A second opportunity to step in, is when a calamity that shouldn't occur according to the fate of the world occurred.
These instances happened when another being with the power to influence a world and it's fate appeared and tried to change the destiny of a world.
It was a rare occurrence, but an occurrence that could happen, none the less. In these instances, unless there was a protector being of the world, then the reincarnation warden would have to step in.
A third instance that can occur, is that the protector being of a world dies and a new one is needed to fill the void they left behind.
The only beings capable of filling the void are beings of the origin world that have gained enough power and were close to breaking the barrier of human limitations.
The reincarnation warden would then have to select a being and using his power, forcefully break the being passed their limits and to the level of a world protector.
The final instance is when fate is affected negatively by the reincarnation. They don't do anything to harm the world negatively, but their mere presence distorts the fate of the world.
At the current moment in time that the reincarnation warden was watching, he saw no reason to interfere with Zaya's new world and instead had decide to continue watching from afar.