'AH!'

You gasp sharply, your eyes shooting open as you're greeted with the sight of the light-yellow, evening sky high above you, with multiple white, fluffy clouds floating by at a leisurely pace. Your eyes stay glued to the sky, before darting to the sides, analyzing your surroundings. You're in an empty, grass field. You sit up, groaning in the process, as your eyes register an object- no, a person.

A woman. A woman, with that pink hair. Your breathing hitches.

She slowly looks back at you, that smile on her face, with those eyes looking at your own.

You remain frozen in place, unable to move nor speak, almost mesmerized, but no. You are in shock. How is she here? She..

..she shouldn't be alive..

Before you can even process the copious amount of thoughts in your head, you suddenly fall back onto the grass, before-...

...

'AHH!'

Another sharp, now louder gasp escapes your parted lips, as you wake up to reality, the view above you no longer that of the evening sky and dawn - but rather the ceiling of your room on the Astral Express. You continue lying on the bed, processing what just happened.

What a weird dream, right?

Sighing, you decide to postpone the thinking onto the next day, as you aren't in the best condition to be pondering about such things.

...

The next morning, you wake up, and immediately head out of the Express, heading towards one of the many grass field on Amphoerus. You start looking around, your eyes darting all over your line-of-sight frantically, searching for her. The one you have lost a long time ago. In a different universe.

...and yet, you find nothing, except for the seemingly endless fields of greenery.

Your shoulders slump, as your heart clenches. Were the aeons mocking you?..

Sighing, you turn around, and-

"Good morning. A new day should start with a lovely encounter~" - she says, her voice as sweet and soothing to the ears as it always was, with her arms behind her back, as she is leaned towards you just slightly.