Chapter 3:

1.3: Edward Saint

Transcontinental


At the crack of dawn, or heck, even before dawn arose, I went to visit my friend and future travel buddy, all the while critiquing the layout of the village.

“The shop is right outside the neighborhood, with the baker right across from it, next to it is the butcher… It’s all the same! When will anything change around here?”

Just then, my thoughts where cut short by a peppy, boyish voice.

“Grim! Grim!”

Here comes the only interesting person in town, Edward Saint as it were.

He’s about half a head shorter than me, but he definitely has the better looks. His blondish hair accentuates his green eyes, and his gentle, kind, almost naïve way of thinking is a refreshing sight indeed.

I had asked him to prepare for an escape at this time, and we had made countless practice runs to avoid failure, so seeing him here wasn’t a surprise at all.

“Yo, Ed! Did you complete the preparations for the plan?”

“Sure did,” he answered in earnest, “I put the tools in the bag, and the food is in the hideout.”

Good job, fellow adventurer… Soon we shall be free to wander the world just like the great Schnell himself.

“Awesome! Off we go then… To adven-!”

“Stop!!!!!”

What is it now?

“Th-The plan! Run it over for me once again, will ya?” he pleaded.

“Uuuuuugh, what’s so hard to understand, Ed? We’ve planned this out for weeks!”

Step 1: prepare food, water, and some basic tools

Step 2: run away and explore the world

“Seems simple enough, right?”

“Right, right, the whole two step thing, I get it... but…”

But what? Don’t get cold feet now!

“My parents will be worried, and we might not make it back… just thinking about that makes me really sad.” He raises a point.

Oh for Prylos’ sake, he’s gonna start crying again, isn’t he?

“Listen, I have a family just like you, and I still chose to follow in Schnell’s footsteps. It’s not a bad idea to experience something new, right? Our eyes are the greatest proof I need to convince you.”

To that, his eyes shone green as he looked up at me. Truly, we had both held the green Iro and never converted. The other kids made fun of us, but it only motivated us to go out into the world even more.

There exists a total of 8 colors of Iro: green, blue, red, yellow, gray, purple, brown and white. Even with all these colors, I still think green is the most beautiful one.

Back to Ed, I think I proved my point, but why does he always have to stop me?

“Yeah, *sniff* you’re right, let’s go! TO ADVENTURE!”

“TO ADVENTURE!”