The girl looked to her while remaining silent, her eyes just staring at the monster as the two butterfly sisters watched her carefully.

“Who… are you?” the young girl asked quietly.

“My name is Luna, I… I’m sorry, please don’t be afraid of me, I just wanted to help you,” Luna said nervously.

“We’re not here to hurt you, seriously, please don’t scream,” Falla added while looking around quickly.

“Why would I be afraid of you?” the child asked softly. Luna looked back to her wings then glanced to Falla before looking at the young girl with worried eyes.

“Well… I mean… don’t I frighten you?” she asked. The child’s eyes moved around slightly while she remained silent, the two sisters watching as she just stared at Luna.

“Kid?” Falla asked slowly.

“You sound nice, you don’t frighten me,” the young girl said after a while.

“I don’t? But… look at me; I don’t scare you at all?” Luna asked.

“I can’t look at you,” the girl replied while still watching Luna with a dull stare in her eyes.

“What do you mean can’t, you’re looking at me right now,” Luna said curiously. The child shook her head slowly as the two sisters showed puzzled expressions. After a moment the young girl showed a saddened smile.

“No, I’m not, I can’t see anything. I’m blind.”

Chapter 2

Proposed Solution

In the world of Eden, conflicts and battles were all too common. Whether it be from feuding human civilizations, fighting against lustful monsters in the wild, or a simple dispute that escalated to seeing who could hit harder with their fists, getting into a fight for one reason or another was part of life in this world. However, sometimes using brute force wasn’t the way to solve a conflict, sometimes there were more peaceful alternatives to spilling blood. In the event that a solution couldn’t be reached by drawing arms then those in question would be forced to think of another way of ending their conflict. Of course this didn’t mean the fighting was over just yet for them.

All they were doing was choosing a new battlefield to fight on.

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Near a river which flowed gently by into a forest two butterfly sisters were looking with wonder at something. Luna was kneeling down on the grass, holding a child that she saved from drowning in the river moments ago. The young girl had blood on her dress and appeared to be dazed and weak, and also seemed to be all alone. Normally a young child coming into contact with a monster of any kind would be terrifying, usually being accompanied by screams of horror and pleas for mercy, however this young girl wasn’t screaming at all. It wasn’t that she was too weak to do so; rather it was that she wasn’t aware that a monster was holding her.

“You’re blind?” Luna asked worriedly. The child nodded slowly as her eyes didn’t seem to focus on the butterfly monster at all. It was as if the girl’s gaze went straight through Luna entirely.

“Yeah,” the girl said softly. Falla nodded slowly then glanced to Luna with a careful eye.

“Oh, you poor thing, so you can’t see us at all, can you?” she questioned. The child shook her head as she moved a bit in Luna’s arms. Falla nodded then motioned for Luna to let the girl go with her hands.

“I see, I’m sorry to hear that. Well, we must really be on our way now. Try not to fall into any more rivers, ok?” Falla said kindly.

“Falla, we can’t leave her here like this, she’s blind, she shouldn’t be out here all alone,” Luna argued while shaking her head.

“Luna, she’s not alone, I’m sure her family is close by looking for her. They’ll be along any minute now, so there’s no reason for us to be here,” Falla urged with a forced smile at her sister. Luna looked around then to the child.

“Where are your parents? Do you have a camp close by?” she asked. The child shook her head and looked down with a whimper.

“No…” she said softly.

“She was probably traveling with her parents near here and got separated from them,” Falla reasoned. Again the child shook her head while remaining silent.

“Then why does she have blood all over her clothes? Something happened to her,” Luna said, with the silent child nodding to that.

“Maybe her family are traveling butchers, who knows? The point is that her parents are going to be coming here soon and we shouldn’t be here then,” Falla pointed out expectantly. The young child shook her head to that while Luna looked around the area worriedly.

“But we can’t just leave her and hope her parents find her, we should return her to them,” Luna said looking back to her sister.

“Look, if she just stays put here I’m sure her family will find her, they’re not going to just abandon her,” Falla reasoned. The child whimpered and looked down with closed eyes.

“No, they won’t come for me,” she said sadly.

“What do you mean they won’t? Sure they will, just, you know, stay put so they can find you,” Falla said with a few nods. The child shook her head while keeping her eyes closed.

“No, they won’t come for me,” she repeated.

“Why do you think they won’t? What kind of parents wouldn’t go looking for their own daughter?” Luna asked.

“Because they’ve been dead ever since I could remember, I’m never going to be with my parents again,” the child answered sadly. Luna and Falla looked to each other then back to the young girl as she whimpered and wiped a few tears from her cheek.

“You don’t have any parents?” Luna asked.

“But then who are you out here with?” Falla asked looking around, still not seeing any sign or hearing any commotion from anyone that may be searching for the lost girl.

“I was out here with my foster family. We were traveling to Ashwood because we were going to live there.