"So…you gonna tell me your name?Miss 'Mystery girl from another world.'" She asks while emphasizing at the title she just gave me.
"Jem. Yours?" I anticipate while looking at her
"Luna."She replies while shrugging her shoulders like a name was the least important thing to her.
"Ouch, what a pretty name for such a diva."I mock as I stare at her with a smirk.
"Shut up. Besides, what's the point of having a name when you're always gonna be referred as number 12"
On asking her what that meant, she told me the same thing about the rulers demanding for everything to be in order hence giving them numbers as names.
"The rulers.What jerks." I scoff as I roll my eyes.
From there on we fell into a deeper conversation in which she told me everything I needed to know about the eye colours.Her colour, yellow, represented slavery and everyone with that eye colour are workers who do simple chores like chopping and gathering firewood, pitching water and stuff like that.
The blue eye colour is for royalty and everyone who lives inside the rulers' residence has that eye colour and are treated with respect and prestige.
Then we have the purple eyes who haven't been mentioned a lot because they're mainly inside the residence making potions and medicines for the rulers.
Lastly, we don't know much about green eyes since they live in the outskirts of the world but they are known to be deceiving and manipulative according to Luna.
"Red. What about red?" I speak up after noticing she hasn't mentioned it yet.
"Well honestly, you're the first person I've seen with a red eye so I don't know too much about it."She looks at me and stops for a minute holding my disappointed gaze."But, I can help you right? I can help you escape as long as you help me with something."
She goes on to sincerely tell me about how she despises being treated as someone's "pet" and told me about how she could change her eye colour.She mentioned that there was a hyacinth flower, a one of a kind flower that was grown from the tears of Apollos eyes.
"However, there's a problem.The hyacinth flower lies deep inside the river of youth on the outskirts , which is guarded by the green eyed menaces.So I need your help to scare them away with your eyes so I can get the flower.Does that sound like a deal?"Luna spurts out while looking at me hopefully.
"Wait a minute.How will you help me then?"I ask a bit sceptical.
"It's simple, I change my eye colour to blue and convince the rulers to help you get out."
"Still a bit fishy , what if we fail?" I sputter, worried as hell.
"There you go again with your overthinking.Chill, we'll be fine…let's go back to the treehouse for now and we'll plan everything out tomorrow."
It starts getting dark as we head back to the house and I start getting frightened even though Luna's with me.I grip on to my rose for support and it starts magically glowing.I feel like I have a special connection to this thing and I'm glad I didn't leave it behind that day, it's always here for me when I need it.