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Urd felt cold and tired, like every bone in her body had turned to ice. She wanted to sleep so, so bad but there was something nagging at her that she couldn't remember off the top of her head. It was like there was something she was probably supposed to, but hadn't (an assignment maybe?) but getting up to do that would mean pushing through the chill that seemed to blanket her every sense. Thusly, Urd decided that whatever that was could probably be a tomorrow problem if she couldn't remember what it was and gave in to the warm embrace of sleep.
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When her awareness returned, Urd was in a vast void of water and sky.
"Ah... Shit. I didn't even get to say goodbye to Verdie."
Even without knowing exactly where she was, Urd was well-read enough to recognize going straight from tired and cold, to being in some sort of endless void probably meant... she was dead. However, she didn't have much time to wallow in the rage of being taken from her sister and her friends far too soon, before she heard a voice from somewhere near her.
"You... you just arrived here, didn't you?"
Urd whirled around to see quite an odd sight, a cloud of glittering light, seeming to shift in shape between a vaguely feminine looking person, and a star. She responded to the query "Yes, but... Where is... here? and who are you?"
"This place... it's the boundary where sleep and death touch, and as for me, I've been here so long my name... has just slipped away"
She was understandably alarmed by this, and replied "Will... that happen to me as well?"
The odd stranger answered: "I... don't think so, usually when someone keeps their physical form here like you, they aren't here very long, presumably they end up surviving and waking up."
Urd froze in place for a moment to process what she had just heard: "Huh?, oh! well that's a relief!"
But then she thought of something. If this lady died a really long time ago, the likelyhood was high that she was standing in front of someone who had died in the Keyblade War. This could be an opportunity to ask a primary source about the age of fairy tales, and Urd was not going to pass that up.
thus, she queried, "So, if you've been here a long while, you might actually know stuff that i've been wondering about. I mean, what were chirithies anyways?"
The star expressed surprise: "What were what? I... don't think that's a word..."
"Historical records speak of them as creatures that accompanied Keyblade Wielders before the keyblade war, but do not provide a detailed description."
"before the what? i think you might be confused."
Urd was going to question further about the world this girl had lived in, when she was interrupted by a muffled voice that seemed to come from nowhere in particular, but she couldn't make much of it out except that someone said "big sis". Of course, this was enough, Urd would recognize Verdandi's voice from anywhere.
She waved to the cloud of stardust, and bid goodbye; "I don't think i should linger here long. May your heart be your guiding key!"
The nameless girl had barely begun expressing her confusion when -
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Urd opened her eyes, the first thing she felt was a chill so cold it burned radiating outward from her left shoulder, and as she faded back into awareness, she realized she was lying in a bed in the infirmary, and her sister, who hadn't noticed her stirring, was the only other person in the room at the moment, and she looked miserable.
Urd tried to speak up, but she was so exhausted she could only really grumble out a belaboured "...wha- what's going on??"
Verdie's face lit up at hearing her sister speak, and she ran in to give her sister a hug, carefully avoiding her left arm, which from what urd could see, was in a cast.
Urd was definitely gonna need to catch up on what the hell happened, but for now, a hug from her sister was something to savor.