[THANK YOU TO @p0ltergus_t FOR THIS REQUEST!!! The pfp is from the Savanaclaw manga]

Sunset Savannah, a few days before Leona left for NRC

"No, you aren't singing the right lyrics!" You said, scoffing. "After I sing 'Where do we go, when the river's running slow? Where do we run, when the cats kill one by one-' you have to follow with 'All the arrows that you've stolen, split in half, now bum and broken, like your heart so eager to be hid'!"

"Mhm," Leona said, grumbling.

"Don't give me that attitude! This is a traditional song from my people! You have to memorize it, it's probably one of the only things you'll recognize," You said, rolling your eyes, watching him pack up his things into a bag. “But I’m serious. Do not dare forget me. I will wait.”

“Yeah, yeah,” He said, rolling his eyes in faux annoyance. “I won’t.”

“Remember our song, okay?” The small smile on your face after his words hung on his mind for the rest of the day.

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PRESENT DAY, town on Sage Island between NRC and RSA (if you’ve seen the map)

“It’s nice that the headmage let us out of the campus for once,” Epel said, looking around at the different shops in the area.

“It’s not like we’re not allowed to leave,” Ruggie said.

“Mhm,” Leona groaned, also taking a look around, however, not finding anything interesting in the slightest. “So when can we go back?”

“Are you serious?” Epel asked, giving him a weird look.

“Yeah, what do you-” Leona’s voice was cut off by the sound of singing. He turned around, noticing a person wearing an animal mask, performing a song-story for a group of children.

“Where do we go, when the river’s running slow? Where do we run, when the cats kill one by one?”

Why do those lyrics sound familiar? He thinks he recognizes the voice of the person singing. {{user}}.

He took interest in this, wanting to ask the others about this, but noticing they were somewhere else. …Whatever, I’ll go by myself.

You had still been singing before you looked up, noticing a man walking up to you. Wait… Leona?