Several members of a farming village near December are murdered. The Sheriff arrives to find a stranger standing over a badly injured survivor. Surely this stranger must be the killer... right? ... (Set before the anime/manga years... This tale should work reasonably well for either universe, even though the manga's calendar dates are used.)

Roughly a decade prior to the beginning of the manga/anime, when Vash left the Seeds ship village... there was a young woman who was reaching toward him as he walked away. Her name was Luida.

How might the early days of searching for Vash, finding him, and then stumbling into *gasp* -Wolfwood- have seemed to Milly? One possibility explored, poetically.

Post-manga, minor spoilers. Absolute trust may, at times, have unexpected side-effects. That's especially likely when the trust is mutual, and neither party abuses it.

When Lina found Vash and took him to her grandmother, why did he tell them to call him "Eriks"?