Snippet #2219282

Hoshi watches as the woman walks towards the back of the plane, "I am an air person... all my life the scent of the air and its intensity have mirrored my emotions. I remember when I was very young hiding in the dark while the air around me howled, but it was still near me..." she says her voice trailing off with each word until Hoshi can barely make out what she's saying.
Hoshi can tell she's fumbling with something. When she turns around, she's carrying a set of scales, not the modern kind you use to weigh yourself with, but the kind that merchants used to use to weigh gold or something else of value to determine the cost. "When my power manifested earlier, I got a few cuts here and there and was knocked out" as she gets back to her seat, she pulls back her hair she has some cuts and small bits of dried blood. "Didn't have time..." Hoshi briefly misses the last few words as she tunes out the woman focusing only on her face, she's sonfused as to why the woman hasn't washed off the blood. Her distraction is momentary and the woman's voice seeps back into her head, "It feels like its part of me, and I'm part of it." Hoshi nods as if she has been listening and understands every thing the woman has been saying.

The woman closes her eyes and lowers her hands onto the scales. As she does. Hoshi notices for the first time that the scales seem to have a dark side and a light side to them. Hoshi leans in a bit to get a better look, her focus shifting back-and-forth between the woman's face and her hands. The woman quickly opens her eyes and Hoshi leaps back, partially shocked by how quickly her eyes opened and partially because of their change in color; one eye is now green, while the other blue. "Whaaaa!" she silently releases in amazement.

"Balance in all things, that is what we strive for. Yet we never attain it." She says, her voice possessing an almost mystical quality, as if she is in some sort of trance and a supernatural being has taken hold of her. "We are a child of the Zodiac, we are Libra. The eternal balance." Hoshi slides a little further away from her as she speaks.

Then as suddenly as she entered her trance, she seems to snap out of it, "Maybe you're right. Our signs complement each other, as well as being air signs we're able to offer each other what our signs lack in ourselves. At least that's what I hope. Us two meeting can't have just been chance, can it? It being us two, I mean out of all of us."

Hoshi nods in agreement, staring at the woman, her mouth agape. Then she shakes her head a bit, "Right." she says shaking it again, "There's probably a reason why we met. I guess you could say we are similar." she says beginning to unbutton the cuffs of her long sleeved white uniform top, "Do you have anything like this?" she says, finally unbuttoning her cuffs and lifting them up, revealing the two signs of the zodiac, one on the back of each wrist, "Do you have a birth mark similar? Not like mine, but like yours?"