Safe Place: In Your Arms

The past

(this book takes place after season 4)

The gentle sunrise and the light birds singing in the distance wakes Nyla out of her sleep, tired she rolls over to the side and snuggles into her bed more. Either way, its too early to get up, that is something that she did not have at that time, a warm, comfortable bed, all she had was a disgusting, worn out mattress and a thin cloth that should serve as a "blanket", everything  in all she's fine now, is not fantastic, she has her own room, warm food every day and a bathroom, which she has to share with the couple, but that's okay. She likes to be in the small fishing village, if she had just run away earlier .... this thought has been buzzing in her head since she met the couple and they welcomed her warmly, she can't thank the couple enough.

When the sun is a bit higher, she finally decides to get up. She was still a bit tired, but with a swing she got up, walked over to her little closet and looked for something fresh for the day.

Something she cannot thank the couple enough is that these two bought their new clothes with their own money, completely rearranged the small room they used to use as a storage room and put in new furniture. She just can't thank them enough. When she worked there and earned money and said the couple could keep their salary, they denied Nyla's offer, simply saying, "You earned the money, we decided that's  your money, we're not taking your salary!" was Yumiko's statement. She has learned over the months that Yumiko is really stubborn.

Nyla has been thinking about sharing her past with the couple for some time, it's a very big step for her, even if she told them at the beginning, she never told them the details, she only superficially explained why she ran away, she said the reason at that time was that she felt locked in, the couple didn't know at the time that it was literally.

She sighed slightly, finally decides to get up and freshen up. After a shower she goes into the kitchen and starts to cook something, she will never be able to cook as well as Yumiko, but it is enough not to starve. Cooking was also one of the things she learned from Yumiko. It then turned out that she really likes Japanese breakfast and she can even cook it better than Yumiko, which she is also a little proud of. As she is scooping the miso soup into the bowls, Chalo and Yumiko are just coming down "Good morning, did you sleep well? I've already made breakfast for us"said Nyla with a small smile and puts the bowls on the table. "Nyla you didn't have to do that, you know I'm responsible for cooking in the house," said Yumiko, slightly surprised, because she actually gets up much earlier than Nyla and her husband, they always sleep off because of their work on the ship. Since Nyla has lived with them, she has mostly been helping Chalo on the ship and going fishing with him from evening until the next morning or sometimes for 2 days and if he has planned longer he takes one of his friends with him and leaves Nyla at home with Yumiko, she then helps Yumiko with the restaurant and with cooking, shopping and serving the guests. If they don't come, the two are busy in their little garden.

During breakfast they talk about irrelevant things, Nyla just listened and sometimes smiles when Chalo flirts easily with his wife.

She closes her eyes for a moment and breathes in and out deeply, "I have to tell you something ..." after this sentence she has the couple's full attention, they give her a nod to make it clear that they are listening to her. And so she begins to tell from her past.

I was lying on a not exactly soft surface, it was cold and dark, and it smelled disgusting. Unfortunately I don't remember how I got here, but I knew one thing, I hate it here. A strange man came in with a white coat that was frayed at the end. He had an unpleasant aura and told me they had adopted me .... it was my wish to be adopted but not by a crazy person...at that time I didn't know much but one thing I knew and it was that the man who stood in front of me was crazy . He only introduced himself briefly, I can't remember his name, I only had the wish when I woke up I would get out of the disgusting room ... Oh I was so wrong, when he pulled me out we walked along long corridors and arches a lot, then arrived in a room in which there were many strange devices and glass shapes , in which were living beings, plants, all sorts of things, but the worst thing I saw there was a human ... .. you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman ... it looked so mutilated, the skin scuffed, many open wounds where you could see the bones through, limbs were just as mutilated, the face was the worst thing I saw, where the eyes should be there weren't, just empty holes in the skull, the mouth was open and the lips looked as if they were brutal been torn out and sewn on makeshift. I was so focused on it that I noticed how he put me in a metal chamber and locked the door, I cried and begged that he should let me go, even if I didn't know what he was up to at the time I was still afraid of ending up like the person in his chamber / laboratory ... he had ignored me and done something on his device that was connected to the chamber. Blue smoke came out of the openings .... unfortunately I couldn't remember what happened after that when I woke up again .... but when I woke up again, I had pain in both arms and both legs .... they were blue purple ... I could't move them without having terrible pain, at the foot of the mattress was a tray with a bowl of rice and a hard-boiled egg and a cup of water, cold water, I assumed that I had passed out for a long time ... this process went 5 years ... in those 5 years I wasn't allowed to do anything, I wasn't allowed to learnd to read or  learnd how to write or to go outside .....but when I was 17 we had to leave the place .. it went so quickly,  I was dragged out and thrown into a car, then I noticed for the first time that I wasn't the only one with whom he did experiments, the other children looked worse than me ... They looked partly like the person in a container ... but no..... they weren't dead ... ..and on that day I saw the night sky for the first time ... it was beautiful. I didn't notice much in the car, we were blindfolded when we started driving. Over the years I've learned to sharpen my senses and remember every little thing, every curve every stop, I just had to remember it because I wanted to get out of there. When we stopped and didn't go any further, i knew we'd arrived, no matter where we were, we'd arrived at a hell. It was different there, then there were two of them, there they started to inject fluids into my body, they had burn like hell under my skin. After many injections I was suddenly able to bend fire ... ..and I was actually born not bender ... when they made this discovery, they had the other children killed with the words 'they are now useless' These people... I don't know if you can call them human ... it doesn't matter ... i I learned not to show any reactions, because when you show reactions they  do more experiments with you. In the last experiment they injected me with a red liquid in my neck, that was a new spot ... I couldn't see anymore  after that... i had a panic attack and I freaked out in the laboratory, blindly bend fire against everything, after that everything was calm, i got my eyesight back and also a new hair color my dark brown hair turned in light blonde hair almost white. When I looked around I saw human everywhere ... no, not human... the little children who were killed ... I just  burnt everything in may way down and ran away, just out of hell, on the way I always saw the children who gave me the direction to get out of the building ..... it was unusual... the children no longer had a face....

When she was done with her story, Nyla couldn't take it any longer and burst into tears. Yumiko was by her side immediately  and hugged her, that made Nyla cry more, it hurt Yumiko and Chalo to see Nyla like that, the two of them see Nyla as their daughter to whom they could have, because Yumiko couldn't get pregnant and Nyla knew that too. Yumiko whispers calming words to her and strokes her head and back and rocks her slightly. Nyla calmed down after a while and hugs Yumiko back, Chalo joins them and it becomes a group cuddle.