Legacy Fragments

The First Tsaritsa pt. 6

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Vivian was confident enough to be able to say that she had survived. Survived on her own, survived exile from her home, and survived against the odds of the cruel nature. It's been at least weeks now, probably even a couple months since she last received the doctor's help at the start. She wouldn't want to ask anything of him, not just because there would be a large risk, but she also wanted to prove she can continue on her own.

In her time, she has been managing the isolation rather well. Food is incredibly sparse, slow and thin but very few crops growing in makeshift pots and displaced ground, fresh water and warmth. Wood may be difficult but that was where most of her time was being spent. Taking off on the long trek into the woods, to the farthest area from the village, to scrape off bark, and smaller branches she can climb up to reach and to catch both what falls down and any small animals that would get caught in a simple snare.

Time was kind, the summer was long but summer can't last forever and this was a prime opportunity to catch as many animals as possible, that was her priority because just like her, the animals would also be looking for food to store for the cold months.

Vivian had only set out after the sun had already come out, not before, but if she had set off any earlier she would have seen the occurrence of a wonderful phenomenon. In the earliest hours of day, as the sun rose, a drop of gold light seemed to have departed from its warmth, streaking across the atmosphere and extinguishing somewhere out of sight.

That day was a bit off, sleep was hard and the exile was too easily lost in her own thoughts as she headed out. That week, catching food was growing more and more scarce in the area she had been hunting, so the time to move her scavenging location was approaching. There wasn't much forest to the North, further west had much more forest and risk, she traveled through from the south east and the and further north was mostly bare.

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Iglaceas wasn't the only world in which a grand phenomenon had happened. All across the many stars a blessing had been given back to the many worlds. Streaks of gold fell across countless skies in a holy light.

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Vivian was far too lost in her own aimless thoughts as she walked, not tracking as she went and deviating quite a way to the North. While she never saw the gold light in the sky, something else caught her eye, checking her back to reality. In the distance, a gold light flashed its heavenly radiance before growing dimmer and dimmer. There was no snow blizzard or anything malicious about this light in the distance, and taking the risk, Vivian decided that it was something worth investigating. It could be warmth, it could be other people, it could be another opportunity to start a new chapter in her life.

Reaching the top of the slope, before the lone survivor was a vast lake, frozen over with the exception of a massive break point in the center. The water still sloshed and churned, splashing through the cracks and large slabs of ice that rocked on the surface. Whatever the light was, it shined through the ice, sinking deeper into the water, occasionally pulsing in gold light.

Approaching even closer, she could see what emanated such light, fading deeper, was a child, small and hardly even 8 years old. There wasn't any moment to spare as Vivian immediately pulled off the heavy layers of her attire, slipped out on the ice and reached the impact point. The slabs of ice were finally settling back down as the waters calmed but at the first moment she could, Vivian grabbed onto the edge and pushed with all her might. The ice slap resisted the shove but she was more resilient, flipping it onto a neighboring piece. Following through with the motion, she fell into the freezing dark waters.