A new start

It has been a month since Rika stayed in Anita's home. In the time she stayed with the gracious doctor, Rika was able to become friends with Anita. Once Rika was able to move again, the first thing she did, was to take a look around town. As she was walking in the streets of the capital she was expecting to see, serious faces, hateful gazes, or faces filled with fear about the future. Yet the sight she saw was different from what she thought she would see. The people of Berdonia were smiling, they were living their lives as if the war wasn't happening. The students walk side by side to school. The businessmen talking through their phones, as if the world would end if they weren't able to make the meeting. The street carts selling their food without a care in the world.