Chapters
Candlelight Meets Pumpkin
Context: Candlelight Back Home.
At the station, Candlelight saw a nervous guy asking around for directions.
Ticket salesperson
Uh, there's a health center near the station. You can go ask them.
The man left the ticket counter, brows furrowing.
Well, actually, I don't know anything about this place. I grew up in Bauhinia, you see. I only know that my grandparents were from there, having came to Bauhinia during the war; and that I have some distant relatives there.
Whelp, that doesn't really narrow it down. I know in my village — I'm going there and the train is in like four hours — there used to be a story about two people eloping, heh. Maybe they are your grandparents. The age checks.
The man fumbled in his pocket and pulled out a wad of papers. Old and crumbled, were these his grandparents' documents?
Candlelight watched as the man pulled out a particular piece of paper that said it was a "travel permit."
He shoved it back into the pile and pulled out another, a booklet. It was coming loose, and poorly bound in the first place. A passport of old. The man opened it to the appropriate page.
This is the city the passport is issued in. It's a little faded, but the issuing city is still visible. I wasn't sure how far the city is from the village so…
It was very clearly, the very banned, very illegal name of Yigirme Toqquzinchi. Area 29.
My village was right near this city. It could be very possible that the stories I heard were about your parents… But what are the chances?
No. And I can't be sure; how about you come with me to my village and let's ask around for some older people there? You have their names so it should be quite easy.