Rena's secret: Star Ocean 2

The data on the monitor can't be true, it can't be. I'm 17 years
old, but this data says I'm a lot older, about 35 million years old,
give or take four years.
"Excuse me, I need a little time alone." I leave the room, fighting
tears. My mother, father, everyone is dead and now this? My mother
isn't even my real mother, that I already know, but this can't be
right. From what the data said, my real mother died 35 million years
ago, sending me to Expel before she and her colleges were killed. But
it can't be true, it's impossible, yet I know this place, I recognise
it because this used to be my home when I was younger, when I was born.
35 million years, how? From what the data said, my mother died just
after her and her colleges managed to seal the Ten Wise Men in their
comet, and then something went wrong and the entire science station was
destroyed and the transporter to the planet it was on was switched off,
and I was sent 35 million years into the past as a baby and arrived at
Expel, where I was found in the Shingo forest by my 'mother'. All these
years I never fought to ask her about why I was so different from her
and father, now I can't since Expel was destroyed by the Ten Wise Men,
or as Claude puts it, 'drained of life and then pulled apart in the
time it takes me to brink, they didn't know what hit them. But now
this, to find out about my past like this, and to actually come home,
this is hard to take in. I leave the station and head for the most
familiar area, the forest. I go up to the tree that has been there
nowhere near as long as I've been alive, it is only about four hundred
years old, best guess anyway. I sit down on one of the roots sticking
out of the ground and finally let the tears fall. A minute later,
Claude appears, he must have been running, he's out of breath.
"Rena, finally. I don't know what to say, sorry seems somewhat, well,
late. Mind if I join you?" I shake my head and he sits down beside
me.
"Claude, do you think you'll ever see your home again?" He looked up at
the branches of the tree and then looked at me.
"I don't know, maybe once all this is done and we've stopped the Ten
Wise Men, but other than that, I really don't know at all." I shift a
little and take his hand. It's warm and I hold on to it, Claude doesn't
seem to mind.
"I wonder that myself, will I ever get back home, see mother, my
friends, everyone, ever again? My home is gone, my real home is dead
and I seem to be alone, even with friends around me. I failed to
protect everyone I love and yet I know that together, as one, we can
get them back." I look into Claude's eyes and then he hugs me, not a
kiss though , I wonder if that will ever happen, in the weeks we've
known each other, I feel safe with him, even happy. Only my mother ever
made me feel like that. "Is it okay if we stay here, just for a little
while. I would like that." Claude nods his head and we sit and look up
at the sky, night is slowly setting and the stars are slowly appearing.
In this one instant, we're all the life in the universe, in time. 35
million years of life all wrapped up in a single moment forever.