Never Known

Years Alone

After Niya was named no one came to her cell for what she counted as 5 years, the guards told her that next year she'd be old enough to begin testing. Whatever that meant, it was big, they even slipped new clothes through the mail slot! On the 360th day of the 5 years of loneliness, a young man walked into her cell. Well, thrown into her cell anyway. He looked weak and scrawny, with Aqua hair... was she supposed to fight him? She tried saying "Hello, are you ok?" In one of the languages she'd learned before, but he had no response. She tried the second language, this time he looked up at her, then all at once threw his back up against the wall behind him, as if trying to escape something. Niya looked around the cell, no one but her and this boy were there. That's when it struck her, she slowly backed away, cocooning herself in her feathered wings. No one had ever shown fear of her, but she was taught at a young age that she was different, a monster, an abomination, and that she was a mistake, never even supposed to be created...
The boy looked at her, still afraid, but this time, he walked closer to Niya. Cautiously, he touched her wing. No one had ever touched her, unless they were beating her, but this wasn't the same, it was somehow different. This boy, was somehow different. Brave enough to venture beyond fear of the monster in front of him.