Chapter Eleven
Flashback (Five-year-old Aerith)
Aerith was playing around the cottage with her ball. Her silver hair billowed in the afternoon breeze. She hummed a song softly as she ran after the ball.
It rolled into a ditch filled with moss and dirt before she could get to it. She wrinkled her face in disgust but she had to pick it up before Elina saw her dipping her hand in the dirt.
Elina would scold her for not being careful enough and she'd threaten to seize the ball from her if she was not careful enough. Aerith looked around her once more before she bent down on her fours.
She stretched her hand into the ditch and picked the red ball. The afternoon sun hung brightly in the sky casting its beautiful rays upon their surroundings.
Aerith threw the ball outside because she couldn
