She sighed lightly, leaning against her windowsill and overlooking the streets and buildings outside her family’s home. It was a lovely day, bright with scarce clouds splotching the blue sky that rushed overhead with the breeze.

Saya had been awake for just a few days now, a fair bit early. She had been asleep for some 17-odd years before Julia had discovered a solution of several chemicals that, when injected into Saya’s blood, could potentially put an end to her extended sleep cycles. Obviously that was yet to be proven, but at the very least, it had woken her early and she was feeling no tell-tale signs of lapsing back into her hibernation, or of going mad with her premature wakeup call as she had in times before.

Although she had initially been entirely oblivious to her previous awakenings and memories, much to everyone’s pleasure it had only taken a few hours of consciousness to begin to recall all that had happened. By late evening the day after she’d been jarred from her sleep, she had remembered everything. This was both a blessing and a curse, at first. She had been thrilled to be given the opportunity to see everyone again, to visit her nieces and Julia’s son before they were fully grown, and to be surprised with other young additions to her expanding family. She was also greeted, however, with a very distinct lack of her chevalier, and the memories of his burial beneath a large stone balcony; With the knowledge that he’d not returned to her before she’d finally given in to her body’s insistence that she sleep. When the realization had hit her, she had barricaded herself into her room, refusing to come out as she swam in her despair of facing the eons without the man she’d been with near her entire, very long lifetime.

The twins had been appalled when they arrived home from school that day. They had both taken a few minutes to lecture their adoptive father for not putting their aunt’s mind at ease as soon as she’d become upset. They’d then taken it upon themselves to inform the woman that looked as though she could be their triplet about the roses that they’d found on a fairly regular basis at the family tomb since they were but a few years old.

Saya hadn’t been convinced at first, until the girls had presented her with a dried pink rose, tied in a perfect little bow with a royal blue ribbon. It was too much to be just coincidence then, no one else having known of the story of her pink roses, or that she’d given the ribbon of that same color to Haji herself when they were young, having been sick of the boring colors he’d usually tied his hair with. Consoled and having faith that her long-time companion would return to her, she had emerged from her room to enjoy the rest of her evening with her loved ones and friends before retiring to sleep.

She had woken up early this morning, as the sun was beginning to peak it’s way over the horizon and stood in her window to watch until the sunrise evolved into this glorious morning. She smiled to herself. Kai had reminded her the night before that she was awake quite early, and Haji, although sure to come back for her, would likely need to be called for. It was true that he should be able to feel that she was awake, but logic would tell him that it was wishful thinking and he may not come on that alone.

She leaned out the window somewhat and grinned, the blue ribbon from the dried rose tangled in her fingers.
“Haji,” she thought out loud, “Come. I’m awake and waiting.”

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Sort of a cross between a prologue and a first chapter. short, but you know. p
Here's a hint for those that like the way this is going: Story watches and reviews tend to motivate me to get things done faster, but hopefully, you can expect another chapter to be up in a timely fashion anyway. I'm also taking suggestions for the twins' names, since i'd like them to click together but not be completely stupid like a lot of fics like to do.
Hope y'all enjoyed, please drop by and check for updates soon. 3