Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140829052131/@comment-397235-20140829200524

This is Kirk's first meeting with Holly Jordan:

''She was a short girl, Kirk judged about his own age, either fourteen or fifteen, but short and slight. She wore her dark hair shoulder length, her bangs cut precisely above her eyebrows. For some reason it reminded him of a doll’s hair.''

''The girl wore clothing just a few sizes too big for her, as if it had been bought for someone else. It didn’t look especially used, but he suspected had he known anything about American fashion it would’ve been a year or two out of date.'' ''She kept her head down, so Kirk couldn’t see her face, and she didn’t spare him so much as a glance, simply moving to the buttons, then taking a position at the opposite side of the elevator after making her selection. Kirk felt he should find her creepy, but there was something…calming about her. He couldn’t quite place it, but her presence didn’t bother him.''

''“H-hello?” he tried, timidly, not sure what he was nervous about. The girl, in any case, didn’t respond. She just kept staring at the ground.''

''It was then Kirk noticed what she held in her hand. It was a doll, but a finely made one, with what looked like hand-made clothing and hair that had to be real; clearly this was no toy, though the girl held it casually, by one of its arms, the rest of its body drooping sadly. Just like her Kirk realized.''

It's hard to italicize everything when I also italicize a character's thoughts. The first few bits are from Kirk's (Kouichi's) perspective, but I've so far also introduced Sherry Link (Yukari Sakuragi) as a PoV character.

As for the names themselves, I made an attempt to find Western equivalents of their name's meanings (Reiko's name, for example, more or less means "gift from above" and has botanical connotations, so I picked Lily Godiva which is similar; Godiva is also somewhat well-known in regards to allure, so I figured it doubly worked0.