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You lie in bed silently.
You’re no longer on Earth. A mistake to trust a witch led to you being crippled. Now you're stuck here indefinitely.
Like a dream, you quickly accept it.
Hitori came poking in the room. She stared at you with big blue eyes.
“You're not asleep?”
“No.”
You sit up as she walks in. “I leave tomorrow,” she says.
She is an adventurer. The first one you've met. You ask her more about what she does for a living.
“I do quests from the Guild, and they pay me in gold Écu. These days though, it's getting harder to even make a few sous. Not without risking your neck fighting all sorts of terrible people and creatures.”
“Adventuring seems like a full time job,” you observe.
She grinned amusedly. “No adventurers in your world?”
No, you explain, not quite in the modern day. Not in the sense people still have frontiers to chart, dragons and wizards to vanquish or treasure islands to discover. Ever since modernization came about, YouTube and NASA replaced adventuring forever.
“Interesting.” Hitori’s eyes glittered. “Tell me more.”
Soon you found yourself having to explain what ‘NASA’ and ‘YouTube’ is to her. Hitori was wide-eyed.
“...wait, so with this NASA and everything… You mean to say that your people have already reached the stars?” Hitori asked.
“If you mean space, then yeah. We've gone to space before. We put up satellites there for our cellphones and television.”
She's noticeably pleased. She went beside you and said: “Tell me more next time. I promise you I'll tell you stories of my own too.”
She got up.
“I haven't properly introduced myself to you yet, have I? My real name is Hitori Gotō. I am from a galaxy far, far away…”
Hitori took your hand and shook it.
“I'm an errant-witch of Greyweul now. A ‘Space Witch’. There are things I must do to redeem myself from the mistakes I've done in the past here… they’re part of my quests. When that's done, I'm going home.” She said, “I'm glad I found you this morning.”
“May I ask you a question, Hitori?”
“Of course.”
“What's your Luck score?”
It's not exactly subtle to ask about her Luck, but now or never. Hitori suddenly looked sad.
“Zero.”
She smiled sadly.
“All my life, I never believed in luck. Luck is for fools! We make our own luck.” She looked guiltily. “But I guess I’m wrong, and I'm being punished now, eh?”
“What do you mean?”
“I'm not a lucky person. I think I was killed in battle in my past life. Lisa thinks I reincarnated here. That's why I have to be careful now. I'm the only person in this world with no luck at all.”
She pointed at you.
“I think six is a lucky number, Nate.”
The conversation with Hitori left you mystified.
The next morning, something unexpected occured: the number on the piece of paper had changed.
Luck: 7.
Your Luck score has changed.
