-Rose-
Actually caught a bit off guard by the voice speaking to her, Rose quickly looked over at a golden haired boy and blinked. She smiled a bit realizing and finding it funny for some reason that they'd both asked the same question. She shrugged, "I have no idea," and looked back at her lantern as it slowly lifted into the sky and down towards the rest of the lanterns, "But this is the Obon festival, after all, so maybe it was a spirit." She meant it in more of a joking manner, not guessing that she was actually right and that the small white flame had been an overflow of the guardian spirit inside of her. However, she did notice that something felt different. She suddenly felt that a floodgate of energy had been opened and she felt tingles everywhere. She thought she heard someone call her name, so looked over her shoulder, but no one was there.
Confused, she shrugged it off and looked again at the boy beside her. "I'm Rose, by the way." She looked at his hair, wondering if that was his natural color. Well, her own natural color was even stranger because she wasn't albino or anything. Not that golden blond was a strange color. Plenty of people had naturally golden blond hair in America, just not here in Japan. She thought he looked like he might be a foreigner, but then again she could be wrong.
Her ears picked out a strange pattern in the sound of the wind overhead, but just as she was about to look up, her eyes were drawn back to the moons' reflection in the water as it seemed to be growing wider.
Now that's a little strange... Were her eyes playing tricks on her? Or was the moon's reflection actually expanding?