It was a gloomy Saturday afternoon in a small town called Cistale.
The sky was flooded with gray clouds that shut the sun out from shining down and suddenly started to sprinkle raindrops over the people in the small, gloomy town below.
A young girl sat down in a building's brick windowsill, staring at the people who started to open their umbrella's and swing them over their heads to protect themselves from getting wet from the shower that suddenly started.
The girl was slowly starting to get bored of sitting here. She wanted to walk around the town once more, until it started raining.
The girl had short, messy, jet black hair that glistened, thanks to the small amount of sunlight that shown down on her head. She had pale skin that made people think she was a vampire and her eyes were a diamond-like silver color. This girl's name is Rae Daganhart.
Rae was suddenly getting a bit too bored and slid off of the brick windowsill, stretching her arms and legs for a few seconds.
She stuck her hands in her gray jacket pockets and slouched over to begin walking down a road that seemed more dull than the town itself.
Rae didn't live with her parents, in fact, she didn't even know who her parents were. Instead of living alone, she lived in a house with a woman named Iraleth Sorale and her daughter Corinna on a street called Fortieth.
The house was two stories tall and was colored an ugly salmon pink. In the front of the house stood a brick wall that looked to be a gate of some sort.
Rae finally reached the house and sighed, looking sadly at the black mailbox with silver writing on the side that read "The Sorale's 805 Fortieth Avenue."
Rae shook her head and continued to walk to the white wooden porch to enter in the house.
Here at the Sorale's, it was miserable for Rae. You wouldn't expect Iraleth be in a happy mood if you were (almost) eleven years old and wandering around town by yourself. Corrina wasn't very nice either, in fact. Rae despised Corrina.
About a few months back, it was Corrina's eleventh birthday and Iraleth and her husband, Walter, took Corrina, her three friends, and Rae to a fancy restaurant in town for a "special birthday dinner." Of course, all of the others, except Rae, decided to act like the most fanciest family in the whole town, while Rae tried her best to ignore the family the whole night.
"Why are you so weird?" one of Corrina's friends would say.
"Why do you wear so much black? Don't you ever wear bright colors?" said the other.
Rae would roll her silver eyes and pretend they weren't there.
"Shh! Don't upset her, now.." Corrina would exclaim and her friends would give out a short chuckle. "Would be a tragedy to have her cry in front of a restaurant with us." Then she'd laugh along with the others.
Rae opened the door silently and, not by surprise, Iraleth had her hands on her hips and looked furiously at Rae.
Iraleth had short, curly blonde hair and sharp green eyes that made her look like some sort of villain from a fairy tale. She was wearing a turquoise long-sleeved spring dress and a shiny pearl necklace around her long and skinny neck.
Iraleth tapped her foot impatiently.
"Well? What's your excuse for being out so late?" She asked, crossing her arms and looking at Rae, who was now hanging her head to one side.
"Or do you even have one?" Corrina intruded from upstairs. She was wearing an all-white dress and had her brunette hair in two ponytails on either side of her round head. She wore an ugly grin on her face that Rae disliked a lot.
Rae shook her head no and sighed.
"Ugh! Take that sopping wet rag off of you! You're getting disgusting rain water on my new carpet! Go change at once, girl!" Iraleth exclaimed and rushed to the kitchen, along with her daughter.
Rae walked upstairs to her bedroom and set her shoes at the foot of her bed.
She slipped on a new set of clothes after throwing her wet ones into a small basket in the hallway.
She sighed and lied down on her bed, staring at the ceiling and thinking to herself. I would do anything to get out of this horrible place, honestly.
A few minutes had passed and Rae's thoughts broke with a loud knock on her bedroom door.
"Are you changed yet?" Iraleth's muffled voice yelled from the other side.
Rae rubbed her eyes as if she just woke up from sleeping. She sat up and answered Iraleth in a soft, shy voice.
"Yeah. I'm changed."
"Well, come on, then. You don't want to starve tonight, do you?"
She heard Iraleth's footsteps leaving her door and down to the kitchen.
She got up and walked downstairs and ate her dinner, which really wasn't much, and left Iraleth and Corrina to go back to her bedroom.
She locked her door and sat down on her bed, staring out of her window.
The same thoughts as earlier kept running across her mind and started to tire her out.
She turned out her lamp light and lied down in her bed and started to dream.
In Rae's dream, she saw a man wearing all black, a cape, and had dark hair like she did. He was turned around and staring at a castle in the distance. She walked closer to the man and looked at the castle, too. It was a beautiful sight. Below them was a dark and silent ocean that sparkled in the moonlight above the two.
"Wonderful, isn't it, Rae?" the man spoke in a dark tone that made Rae shudder a bit at first.
"Y-yeah... It is pretty." She looked at the castle again, and smiled.
The man put his hand on Rae's shoulder, which made her look back up at him and see his face.
His eyes were exactly like hers and he gave her a small, warming smile.
"Soon, you will be here with us, Rae. Don't worry. This will be your new home."
"H-home? What do you mean?" She tried to ask him, but once she looked up at him again, he was gone.
She stood there slightly confused and stared at the castle. It was so breathtaking to look at to her. She sat down and continued to look at it.
A new home? She thought and smiled. I love it.
It was very silent for the rest of the dream. Until something interrupted it..
