The Zersha Chronicles

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

"Tell me Cyrus, What is the farthest back good memory you can recall." The therapist said as I sat down.

About eight or nine years ago when I was still just a farmhand in Maliya.

"Why don't you tell me about that memory?" The man said adjust opening a notepad and adjusting his old glasses.

If it means I could be done with this sooner than sure. I woke up that night to a voice...

"Cyrus, Cyrus wake up, come on. We gotta go somewhere."

"Isa what time is it?" I was quite annoyed being abruptly awoken.

"'Bout an hour after midnight." It wasn't the first time something of that manner had happened. I opened my eyes to see Isa hovering over me, with her long black hair hanging over her shoulder and her green eyes glowing with anticipation of what she had come for.

"And why do you want me at this hour"

"I have something to show you."

"And?"

"I've just gotta show it to you." Her anticipation not hidden at all

"Show me tomorrow, besides I'm not even dressed"

With an angry look she responded "Cyrus I've known you, what thirteen years now and you really thought I wouldn't have figured out by now you sleep in your work clothes." Her frustration was ever growing at my futile attempts of trying to get some sleep one way or another.

I slammed back my head onto my pillow with a sigh. "How did you even get in, again I must add."

Isa chuckled and responded "You left your windows open." I sat up and looked through my open bedroom door to see the windows in my living room wide open. She pulled me out of bed and dropped me on the hard wooden floor as I landed with a thud.

She lifted me up back onto my feet saying with an overly happy smirk. "Come on this won't be like last time." She had her normal optimistic grin as she tried to pull me to my feet.

"You still owe me that forty copper."

"I'd reckon you'd pay me for what I'm going to show you."

"And I'd reckon you'd still owe me." She elbowed me and ran through my door. She stood and waited for me at the door impatiently but still with a happy demeanor. As I followed she opened the door and closed it behind me. Gesturing to the brightly lit streets she took off sprinting most certainly expecting me to follow. I almost lost her as we passed more and more small houses and stores, until she suddenly veered off into the darkness.

I stopped and tried to find her in the darkness, but as I stepped of the path I was pulled back onto it by my collar into the lights of the street and a deep voice of which I recognized whispered to me "Where is she?" I was turned around to look her in the face her eyes staring through me but somehow still on me. "I know at this hour the only people that would be up are the taverngoers and you two. So what have you two done this time?" Even though dressed only in her nightgown and sleeping cap her mother's stare was enough to shatter anyone's resolve. "She wanted to show you something did she not?"

Panicked I quickly stuttered "Yes she wanted to show me something I don't know where though." She said nothing and just walked off down the street and then disappeared onto an unlit path and as she did I heard a whisper.

"Cyrus, come on! We gotta go before she comes back." I followed her into the unlit darkened fields under the dim moonlight and as my eyes adjusted to the lighting I saw the towns windmill ahead with the multicolored bright wires running out of it into the ground and off in the air. "Ok Cyrus how do you reckon were climbing this."