Part 472: Nowi C

Libra, give me a piggyback ride!

Ah! Careful there, Nowi! I didn't see you coming.

Hey, what's this scar, Libra? Here on the back of your neck?

Don't touch it!

Eep! S-sorry! Does it hurt?

N-no, it doesn't hurt. Not there, anyway. The wound is long healed...

So why aren't I allowed to touch it?

Because it might reopen a deeper wound that yet causes me pain.

Like... inside your neck?

I'm speaking of a wound of the heart.

Ooooooooh! I get it! ...Wait, so your heart hurts? Why?

When I was a child, I was raised far from the home of my parents. ...In truth, I was abandoned by them.

Oh no, that's terrible! Why would your mother and father do that?

Perhaps they hated me. Perhaps they had a better reason. I do not know. When they left me at that place, I began to howl most piteously. I clung to my mother so desperately I had to be forced off... Which is when I sustained the scar you see now.

*Sniff* That is so sad!

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. And it's long in the past now.

Well, I don't care! I'm going to make you feel better!

How will you do that?

Just like a cramp --- I'm going to rub your heart until the pain goes away!So, er... Where do you humans keep your hearts, anyway?

I've spent years avoiding what lies within mine... I'm not entirely sure if I could find it again if I tried.

Okay, fine. Then I'll help. We'll find out where your heart is hiding and get rid of the pain together!