Snippet #959079

Chihro woke up with a start, and streched, her dark blue hair swaying round to her back. She glanced around her small room, bare accept for the desk, her bed, a waredobe and the mattress on the floor, that belonged to her sleeping little sister Mae. She sighed, shook Mae awake, and got dressed for school. Chihiro wanted to get out of the house before her horrible aunt woke up, knowing she would scold Chrihiro or Mae for one thing or another. Then Mae was tugging gently on Chihiro's sleeve, silent as ever, pointingto the door with a worried look on her pretty little face. "she must think our aunt is getting up, poor thing." She tought, kneeling down too her sisters leval,and silently telling her-" Dont worry Mae, we're going to Erika's house now." She signed, "and then We'll drop you off at school, Aunty can't shout there, okay?" Mae sighed back a simple " Okay and together hand in hand, they left the house, walking hand in hand to Erika's. They walked in silence, of course. Chihiro wondered wat it wounld be like too have a loud cheerful, even annoying little sister, but of course her's never spoke, never listned,only signed. Chihiro sighed, "Poor Mae."

Erika was already up and dressed by the time Chihro and Mae arrived, as early as they were, he was desperate to get away from the burning glare of Makato. As always, as her father carried her dowstairs, helped her dress, and place her frail body delicately into her gleaming Wheelchair, Makato had just glared. Erika wondered if her only brother would ever return the love she gave to him, like her father did. Erika was getting good at "Wheelchair control" as she called it, and was now even able to munuver down steps, so she had long ago warned her father off trying to push her, even thogh her little arms ached with evrey meter she pushed herself. Erika hated being in a wheelchair. he really hated it. From time too time, when there looked like there was no hope for Erika, the dark depressing thoughts wirled around in her fair head- "Maybee gods punishing me... I'm just paying for what I did too my mother." But all these thoughts were pushed voilently out of her mind, and she plasted a fake smile on her face, when Chirhiro arrived, little deaf sister in tow, a fake smile plastered on her face too.

So there they were, walking (and wheeling) don that road in the early morning sunlight. " The unfortunate children" the villigers had nicknamed them... The disabled girl, the deaf child, and the depressed little teenager that looked after them both. But the villages didn't know Erika and Chirhiro's secret, that was not worthey of the sympathy they gave them, the villigers didn't know, The didn't know about the powers those children possesed.The powers that are going to get these "unfortunate" children in lethal danger.