Met By Moonlight:

Chapter 13: A New Perspective

This event has been going on and on for as long as I can remember. That same torture over and over and I thought it would never end. Why this cabin? Why am I still stuck here, why can't I escape? Questions that filled my mind, Will I ever get out of here? Is Ciri still alright? Then true fear overpowers my thoughts, what if she's not alright? And the pain of most likely losing Ciri overtook the pain of whatever this cabin keeps doing to me over and over again.

I can't stop thinking about Ciri, I didn't care about the endless torture that I was going through with this damn cabin, but that's when suddenly it stopped and everything was just dark... I don't know how long it was dark, but I woke up, or if you can even call it waking up, I knew I was trapped in my mind.

I was placed in a memory, like a dream I've had before, but this was no dream, this was a past event. I saw myself wandering around in the park, very young, about 8 I assumed and I followed my younger self, trying to understand why I'm here. I remember this place, everyone used to send their kids here to relax while the kids get rid of their energy, and maybe that's what I'm supposed to do to escape this nightmare, rid of my energy? No...

As soon as that thought came up, everything shot back, going back in time and I saw flashes of the cabin and it all went dark, the torture only lasting a single time again, till all my bones were ripped from me and I awoke again in the park, saw my younger self again, but decided to just wander around this time.

A little girl ran right into a branch hanging from a tree, assuming she's about 6 years of age, and it left a mark on her forehead, but it was blurry to me. An image flashed before me, Ciri? Ciri has a mark on her forehead... Could we have seen each other before we even met each other for the first time? I was expecting for everything to go back, being tortured again, but this time, everything just kept going on, I was reliving a memory, but not through my younger eyes, through everything I saw on this day without noticing and I knew this is where I had to search.

The worry of Ciri being alright, wasn't as intense any longer, when I saw this little girl who got injured. She didn't cry, kept strong, laughed it off and continued running around and I see my younger self looking at her in admiration, and then just going off with some friends again. That must be where I first saw Ciri. Everything fades dark, again I'm in the cabin's shadow, I brace for the torture, but... there wasn't, nothing was happening. I still felt weak, but I managed to get up, but the sudden rise made me lose consciousnesses and my powerless body slams against the ground...

I wake up again in the park, sitting on a bench where my parents told me to wait for them at sunset. I saw my younger self looking at everything around him, must've been why I remember this setting so well. I took things in without even realizing, but I noticed there that I was always curious, observant, different. That's when I saw the little girl run past the bench, younger me didn't notice, but I decided to follow. She went and sat with her parents, on a blanket and they admired the sunset together, but I noticed her parents didn't show much attention, although she tried her best to show it doesn't bother to keep them happy. I remember this from when Ciri let me read her diaries.

She then fell asleep on her father's lap, but he told her to move, there are pillows and I saw how that hurt her. I saw the mark on her forehead, it's Ciri, it must be! and everything froze, I could move around, but everything around me seized to move, I heard a faint voice to telling me something is wrong, something here, in this picture, does her father have something to do with everything that happened the last while? Everything went black, darkness once again and a huge list of questions, but something about that last part, it stuck with me.