Reincarnated Into A Dead Woman's Body In Another World

Part 1: Rubble and Ruin

"Rumble... Brf..."

"Bella..."

"It’s okay, you will be okay; it will be over soon," she whispered into the smaller girl’s ear.

Barely kept dark hair, long and parted down the middle. Deep brown eyes winced, bracing through the rolling grumble of the earth. The girl, around eight years old, had her arms wrapped around a smaller girl.

Both were tucked in the corner of a building, sat down as the dust from the stone puffed out from the ceilings and the walls. The quake mellowed... then mellowed some more... till it was nothing at all.

The older girl sighed. "Come along Rena, it’s over," she told, her voice soft and melodic, with a hint of curtness.

The little girl had her eyes tightly shut and her hands did not leave her ears; she still shivered as if the rumbling never stopped. The older girl gently took the little girl’s wrists and pulled them away from her ears.

Her closed eyes shot open and she stopped shivering. She looked up to see the older girl looking down at her with raised brows and a smile. "It’s over?" the small voice asked.

"For now."

"Phew!" the little girl shifted away and stood up. Deep brown eyes and her dark black hair cut choppily short till above the ears. She held her stomach as it rumbled similar to the earth. "Sister... I’m hungry..."

"Thirsty too?" the older girl got up and dusted off her ashy knees and patched together shorts.