Chapter 01: "Where Am I?"

Description of the Character:

Name: The girl has black hair that reaches below her shoulders and dark brown eyes of medium size. She is about 1.50m tall, skinny due to the lack of food in her family, and is 10 years old. Her hands are injured and calloused from hard work, and she wears a leather outfit made from bear fur, including boots.

The girl is determined and brave.

Chapter 01: "Where Am I?"

In a wooden house with animal skins, on a steep, rocky, and icy mountain, a family was gathered around a wooden table having a watery bird soup. There was a father, a mother, and two children. The father was brave but already scarred, the mother responsible and loving but with many fractures in her body due to the lack of proper food, making her bones fragile, and the two beloved children.

The son was obedient and serious, helping at home and assisting his father in hunting, while his sister was his opposite, playful and disobedient yet kind and brave, a perfect blend of both parents.

Then, on a fateful and unfortunate day, Kiay, the young child, was with her family, walking through one of the unknown valleys, searching for food, fruits, and edible animals, as all the animals near their home had already been hunted, and those that remained had fled the mountains of Airen, once prosperous but now deserted, resembling a mountainous icy desert.

They did not know what they might find on the other side of the steep mountains, but all the other nearby inhabitants had already left, knowing that everything was coming to an end. Only empty and deserted houses remained, so her father wanted to ensure that his family had something to eat. It had been two weeks since a drought had dried up all the water from the mountain, and the situation of living in that place was worsening every day.

This was a bad omen, according to the elders of the small nomadic village. They were moving away with it and her family.

Like every child, she was not concerned with her surroundings and always got scolded by her mother and father. But this time, the situation worsened.

The young child moved away as they were passing through a steep gorge that was in terrible condition, and even though everyone was fearful, the young girl had courage in her innocent heart. She walked close to the edges, which caused fear in her family.

The earth began to tremble and the ground to crack, everything started to give way. The girl had a pure and innocent smile on her face. It was the last time her mother saw her, because after a short while, the girl had disappeared into a hole she fell into, making her family think she had died, falling from that high and steep place where not even monsters survived her fall. Her parents had an expression of mourning and pain, calling out for their little girl, but receiving no response, just a long silence.

The young girl was falling into a deep hole, which shone with white rays around it. Suffering upon waking up in complete helplessness, she looked around and did not see her parents, her brother, or any person around her.

"Father, mother, brother! Where are you! I'm scared!" - she shouted as she walked after waking up in a dark place where light did not reach, with scratches on her arms and much pain in her small body. She was scared and distressed, not realizing that she had attracted hungry creatures with her cries and tears. With fear, she began to run and seek shelter.

She ran and began to see lights, which she thought was the way out of that dark place. The girl ran with all her might towards that light, which seemed to be the way out of the darkness. But what she found made her fear for her life once again. She saw a bird sleeping in its nest, large with blue feathers that shone in the darkness. It was asleep, and its blue glow illuminated every corner nearby.

She was afraid in her small heart, but she approached the shining blue bird. The bird suddenly opened its eyes and stared at her, as if curious about the human girl in front of it, as if it had never seen anything similar before. The bird stared at the girl, and suddenly she heard noises behind her, remembering why she was looking for the way out of that dark and fearful place. The girl looked back slowly and saw the real reason for her fears.

She saw two dogs, one of them a wolf with red eyes, growling as they watched her. The little girl hid under the wing of the blue bird, which let her hide. The animals began to growl at the bird, which started shouting for the dogs to leave its nest. It spread its wings and let out a loud cry that scared them away for a short while, but they were very hungry and did not give up. The bird got annoyed and attacked the intruders, while the girl stood still, watching the scene of the bird protecting her, even though she didn't know why. She was surprised, because it seemed like a mother protecting her children.

It reminded her of her mother in some way, the way she would do anything to protect her little one. As she watched the large bird fight to protect her, she felt calm and happy, her heart finally calming down.

The bird, seeing the little girl in its nest, killed one of the dogs, and the other tried to attack the little bird. It used one of its claws to pierce one of the dog's eyes, and then it finally fled while crying out in pain.

The winged bird approached the little one and placed its warm wings over the child, who calmed down. Her eyes seemed to get heavier until she fell asleep (fainted from blood loss) in the house that shone above her, a house made of stones or a simple and large cave but welcoming with the child.

End of the chapter

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