Chapter 03: "The World."

Young Kiay, far from knowing where she was, with doubts, fears, and apprehensions in her small childish heart, somehow knew that everything would be okay one way or another. She knew she had to keep her hopes up for her own sake and for being alive and saved by her ally and friend... Alada. (Author's notes: Kids, keep hope alive!)

She was surprised to wake up and find her wounds and pains from the day before had vanished. She had no cuts or bloodstains on her clothes, just some faint almost invisible marks. It didn't seem like she had been gravely injured at all.

Looking around, she admired the nest of the great bird in front of her, and she admired it, a noble and kind bird, bluish, that with its breaths seemed to pulse with each breath, seeming like a light that gradually shone with its breaths, seeming like a heart.

The girl got up and hugged her, causing Alada to wake up and lick her hair. She laughed at that, and Alada headed towards the entrance that looked like a long window of sturdy stones in a cave.

The young girl finally managed to see the landscape in front of her in that place. There were trees with red petals, greenish stones in three mountains not too far from that place, and a thin and tall river in its outline, large with countless creatures she had never dreamed of seeing.

She admired seeing a large cat with red colors and white spots, a large dog that chased servants with five small horns on its head, and gigantic trees with blue, red, and yellow fruits. There was a new world in those places that she had never known.

A world she wanted to know, Kiay wanted her family to be there and live in those lands, the lands of her dreams that she barely knew, that for more beautiful and incredible it seemed like a place, it was not a paradise with beautiful landscapes and prosperous with a vision she had.

The Young girl wanted to believe she was dreaming or that she had died in that long fall.

It was like her mother always said, "There is a beautiful world that our ancestors talked about, it's called paradise, a resting place, a beautiful and prosperous place, daughter, this place is where you can only reach in death."

Yes, she believed she was dead, so she started planning what to do, wishing her family lived long and that everything went well for them. She really wanted her mother to live, her brother to grow up, and her father to protect them from everything and any danger.

Alada arrived with a large fruit, looking like a blue apple, the same as the previous day, with a humanoid animal that seemed intelligent in one of its claws, and in its beak a snake that she had just devoured, from the head greenish blood dripped from Alada's beak.

The creature was dying of fear of being the next meal, the creature looked like a humanoid fox, with fox tails, a face a little humanoid on its body, and hands resembling human hands with short claws. She was trembling, all hunched up.

Kiay approached the humanoid fox and said, "Hi, my name is Kiay, and she's called Alada, what's your name?" She was very curious about the creature.

The creature looked at the girl and, trembling, said, "I'm called Rimei, I'm from the Rampar Village... Are you going to kill me?" She couldn't stop trembling and crying.

Kiay approached her with a slight smile and looked into Rimei's eyes: "I won't do anything to you, and neither will my friend, she won't hurt you. It's good to have someone to talk to, and besides, if we were going to kill you, we would have done it already, look at the snake there in her beak, it would be you there, understand?"

"Yes, Miss Kiay, what do you want from me? I'll do anything, just don't hurt me, please," Rimei trembled with fear.

Kiay stroked Rimei's head: "Where did she find you, and what happened?"

Rimei: "She found me when I was being hunted by that serpent over there, which was cornering me, she was almost devouring me."

Kiay: "Did she save you?" being ironic.

Rimei: "Yes, exactly." She was looking down.

Kiay: "Then why did you think she would kill you after saving you?" with a bewildered look.

Rimei: "I was afraid... Very afraid."

Kiay: "So why didn't your people save you?" [It wouldn't make sense for her to be alone, especially looking like a child or teenager.]

Rimei: "Because I opposed the elder's idea of sacrificing my mother as a sacrifice to the Forest God, I couldn't accept that decision if they want to sacrifice someone, why don't they do it themselves?!" she was quite irritated.

(Author's notes: She has a very precise point.)

Kiay: "Forest God? What is he?"

Rimei: "HIM?!... it's a red bird that always rises from the ashes... it consumes the lives of all who come near it or defy it... it resembles your friend..."

Kiay: "with Alada?!" looking at Alada [A gigantic Alada that's scary.]

Rimei: "Yes, but it's much bigger..."

Kiay: "I'd also oppose anyone who wanted to kill my mother, look, since they must be thinking you died to the snake?"

Rimei: "They threw me near the snake, near her nest they knew where the nest was and threw me there, I managed to avoid entering the nest by holding on, I saw they didn't even look back, thankfully your friend... saved me, she arrived just in time." she started crying, and her stomach began to growl.

Kiay: "It's okay, your mom will be fine... And since you're starving, want to eat this fruit with me? It's too much for me to eat alone." she began pushing the giant apple toward Rimei.

Rimei just nodded and began to use her claws to slice and cut the large blue apple, but couldn't use her claws, they were too small, so she placed the apple on some rocks, then she took out her small knife and began cutting the fruit easily, and served herself with Kiay, and a little for Alada.

Both filled themselves with the fruit, Rimei curled up and slept like a cat. Kiay then began to stare at Alada, and looked into her eyes: "Are you a Goddess, Alada?"

Alada looked at her with a doubtful look, just approaching Kiay.

End of chapter 03.

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