Arrows Rising

Emiri: I remember

I remember, having a papa and a mama, I remember, living in a cozy lair with love around me, I remember, eating delicious food and drinking clean water, I remember, reading books and playing games.

When I was a hatchling, mama used to love me a lot, she teaches me magic and reads books with me, I never seem to learn anything from her but I enjoy it.

When I was a hatchling, my papa used to love me a lot, he teaches me to fight and tells me messages about life, I never seem to understand anything from him but I enjoy it.

One day papa became very weird, he no longer talked to me or played with me, then, mama went missing.

After that, papa asked me to go outside, I thought that he was trying to play with me so I obeyed, but after I went outside, he kicked me hard  that I went to the sky and fell down, I was still too young to fly at that time, so I fell down and hit the ground.

Everything went black, I fell into a deep sleep, it felt like falling into a dark, deep pit, so deep that I would never get back out, but I did, I woke up, how long did I sleep? It felt short as a second yet long as a year. Where am I? I thought, looking around, I saw trees, no dragons, no buildings, no creatures, only me, and trees, big tall trees.

The blazing sun was over me, suddenly, thirst hit me like a sword, my throat felt so dry that it's going to burn any time, I ran underneath a leaf and licked off the tiny bit of dew that still haven't evaporated from the morning, but that little water can't heal my thirst, I need more, I climbed up a small tree in hopes of finding a body of water, nature seems to like me, I did see a tiny stream nearby! I climbed down and limped there and took a sip of the cool water, water had never been so delicious and refreshing, I drank more, until my stomach can't hold any more water.

The next thing that hit me was pain, there was a sharp pain on my left leg, I looked down, my feet are facing back, and blood was all over it, I must have broken the bones, I wonder how I managed to climb up the tree and go to the water! I turned it back to the right position and washed it with water, as soon as the water touched my wound, it became ten times more painful, but I learnt from mama's teachings that any wounds should be cleaned and treated, so I ignored the pain and continued rinsing, then I secured my leg with two sticks and some roots.

After the pain was better, hunger hit me, despite a whole stomach full of water, I was very hungry, mama told me to have a healthy diet of three handfuls of insects each day, I learnt to identify insects, those big pretty ones are the butterflies, those hard ones are the beetles, those long fast ones are the dragonflies, but I didn't know how to catch them, papa used to catch them for me.

I looked at the sky, then the trees, then the ground, finally, I saw a black trail going from the tree to a tiny pit on the ground, the trail is made from small black dots, I know! Those are ants, I don't like those, they taste weird, but mama wants me to eat it and she dips it in chocolate, chocolate ants taste great. But however my tongue hates them, my stomach is rumbling and protesting for them, before I realised, I was already licking off the ants on the tree.

This, is how my story begins.