The First Outworlder

After saying her name, everything becomes grey and freezes.

"Hello, darling!" says Fumiko, sitting there on the other side of the window.

She has a good smile but I refuse to adore it because I don't like her. Her dress is black with a white flower pattern all over it. Her strap sandals are black and shiny.

"Stop calling me that," I say.

"Stop calling you what, darling?"

"That!"

She chuckles as she jumps out of the window the air blows her dress upwards. I look away but I already saw that she was wearing white underneath.

Then the strange thing is that she lands on the street in the middle of the crowd without making any sound. My brain expected a loud clacking sound. That's why it boggled me a little bit.

"Come," she says from down there. "let's stroll."