<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c9/Yume_Zenith.png)</div><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/TqFBCOC.jpg)</div><strong>Canticle of Universal Harmony</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dGaCiyvxkSE5EMRjE79p3sKxIr26NnbEOWfCmV4Q05w/edit)<br/><strong>Yume</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ui9yJl9tcCRdjWh9PLZSWCxpcqQ8-_WbC5HTMPn_FVI/edit)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div><br/>Canticle gave a little gasp of frustration when she lost the second track in the town.  She leaned against the side of a building and beat her little first twice on the bricks.  "There's got to be something...  There's got to be something..."<br/><br/>Yume's pine green eyes shone as tears threatened her again.  She stepped up behind Canticle and wrapped her arms around the little smith's tiny waist.  "You did brilliantly, Canticle," She whispered.  "If you couldn't follow these trials, no one could."  She lightly tipped the other girl's chin up to look into her eyes.  "We'll just have to find something else to try, okay?"<br/><br/>Canticle responded with a little moan as her eyes went wide.  Then she gave a little nod.  Turning in the other girl's arms, she wrapped her hands around Yume's neck and pulled herself up the redhead's body.  With slow, tender passion, Canticle pressed her lips into the redhead's and sighed in gentle love as she savored hre third kiss.  Both girl's eyes fluttered shut, and they lost themselves in the moment, in each other's arms.<br/><br/>Then Canticle whispered, “There's something else I can do, but I have to do it alone.”<em>Yume's a virgin.  I can't subject her to those beasts...  Not even the Lion.</em>“Wait for me at the inn, all right?  I'll be back by dawn.”<br/><br/>Before Yume could protest, Canticle snagged her halberd and darted away up the street, heading for the imperial barracks.