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Aphrodite, feeling a little intimidated, swims into Lunera. She has never been surrounded by such beauty before, and only knows the comfort and quiet of her own little home and tiny garden. As she walks around, she stumbles on a big sign saying: ''Lunera Central Park, Now Officially Open! Follow the signs!'' That must be fun, she thinks and she looks for said signs. ''It's funny how big the difference between two areas can be, especially if they're so near to each other.'' she speaks out loud. ''...And how strange that there's no one here. But well, I suppose everyone is busy then.'' she finishes, without worrying about the unnatural silence the city has. What on earth could go wrong anyway?

Aphrodite notices an attractive young man swimming towards her.
For a few second, she's in doubt. What if he's up to no good?
While she tries to think quickly what to do, the man has already stopped in front of her and says hello to her.
''Hello, stranger.'' Aphrodite replies.
''Who are you, where are you from and why are you here?''
Somehow, the man has something facinating about him. Something mysterious. And somehow, she really wanted to know who he was.

''My name is Aphrodite, I am named after a Greek goddess.'' She looks at the man carefully. She studies him, looks at how he acts, how he's standing, how he's speaking. He attracts her. But she must be carefull, she doesn't know what he's thinking. It's always better to be carefull.
She looks back into his eyes again and he looks back. For a second, she's in trance but she manages to get back to reality and break the silence.
''I believe I have seen your sister, I think she might be working in our school library. Is her name Titiana?'' she asks.
''I believe it must be her, you remind me of her, somehow.'' she adds and takes the chance to stare at him even longer. ''He's so adorable...'' she thinks and she slowly starts daydreaming, forgetting about everything else around her.

''I'm here because I love the city. It's a big place, but amazingly silent. I don't know, this place just has something special, I like being here. I spend as much time her as possible, and when I'm not here, I'm at home spending with my roommate Fleur or I'm at work. I work at our local school and I'm the hallkeeper. We don't have that much students at the moment, so right now I have quite a lot of free time.'' She stops talking to take a breath. ''I don't even know why I'm telling you this, you probably don't even care. And I wanted to ask you something: would you like to join me and go the school to see if we can find Titiana? She really reminds me of you! And who knows, we might run into my roommate Fleur also, she's a teacher there. I think you'll like her, she's very nice.'' After finishing that sentance there's a silence. ''Oh, god, what have I done.'' she thinks. ''He must think I'm totally obsessed with him. Why did I ask that? Oh, no, I totally messed up.''
She tries to talk herself out of it ''Well, erm, you don't have to, of course. It was just a crazy idea I had, ignore it, never mind. I.. erm... I have to go.'' And she quickly swims away, heading towards the school to find some support.

After talking to Titiana in the school library, Aphrodite believes she might have made a mistake. Maybe she was just nervous and paniced, instead of really messing things up. She swims faster and faster until she reaches the park, where she's seen Orion before.
The park looks empty. Aphrodite slows down and swims completely through the park a few times, but she doesn't see Orion.
''Orion...?'' she says with a voice?
''Orion?!'' she repeats a bit louder.
''Orion...???'' she shouts with a desperate voice.
But there's no reply. Maybe he's gone. Or he doesn't want to talk to her anymore, maybe she did mess up and Titiana was wrong. She doesn't know. She feels defeated and exhausted and suddenly it feels like she had lost all her energy and strength. Aphrodite manages to swim a little bit further and drags herself onto a bench. Time passes by. Maybe she's there for just a few minutes, but they feel like hours. And she's just sitting there, staring at nothing.

When Aphrodite sees it's Orion swimming towards her, she immediatly gets nervous again. She tries to make up an excuse for her weird behaviour, because it's obvious now that Orion didn't think she did something wrong.
''Erm... I dunno... I guess.. Ah, whatever, it doesn't matter'' she says, hoping that will close the subject.
''But I was looking for you. I went to the school and Titiana, the woman I said looked like you, asked me to tell you that she really wanted to meet you. She's hooked to the library so she's basicly always there. Do you want to visit her? And when shall we go, then?''
After finishing that sentance, she allows herself to breath again. She almost fainted, because she's so nervous around the pretty merman.
Feeling tension in her entire body, Aphrodite still sits on the bench, waiting for a reply.

Aphrodite thinks for a bit. ''Hmm, I'm not sure. She seems to always be there, I believe she might even be renting a room or just lives very closes to the school. But I always find her there.'' Aphrodite stops talking, then decides to just continue, even if it's about nothing. She just doesn't want to say goodbye to Orion yet.
''I do know you are allowed to go into the school, we love visitors!
But it's your choice.. It just might take a while to meet her if you want to see her outside of the school.''