The flight to Lakewood City in Barnovia took a day and a half, with two stops made by Jasper for business purposes.
However, this journey felt like an eternity to Hiraya.
Lakewood City was her birthplace.
It was a city that harboured so many dark and hunting pasts she had tried to forget.
Looking out the window, Hiraya gazed at the dispersing cloud, which revealed the city's landscape below.
A mixture of dread, excitement and rage washed over her, causing her hands to ball slowly into a fist at the thought of seeing her old man's face.
She tried to keep those haunted grey eyes out of her thoughts.
She tried not to imagine that evil smirk curling up his lips every time he watched her being whipped.
She tried to close her ears to her mother's screams and pleas, every time his whip came down mercilessly on her bare body.
But no matter how hard she tried, the memories flooded her entire thoughts like a tsunami. It made her heart beat quadruple.
