Kianda

Prologue

"How did they find us?" 

"This is impossible!"

"We hid so well, and yet..."

"Run, Odene, run! They can't have you!" 

"Sasha, come, quick. We must go..." My mother pulls me with her to the emergency exit. "No, no! Daddy!" I look around the room. Tables everywhere, lying on the ground. Chairs flying. Screaming men, crying women and children. It's a mess. My mom also has tears rolling down her cheeks. My father, standing with a baseball bat, which he took from a shelve somewhere, facing the door. He looks around quickly, then nods to my mom. "Go, go, go! I don't want you to go like this. Then rather me! Keep Sasha safe. I love you..." "No! Sander! No, no, no, no..." Mother yells, screams, tears burning on her cheeks. We get pulled away. "You should go, keep our race alive..." a man voice says, kindly. My mother screams once more, but then fades to silence. "No..." Then she grabs me by my shirt, pulling me outside. I see Sophia running as well, together with her brother and her mother. I wave at her, not understanding what is actually happening. She waves back, with a frightened face. My mom lets me sit down in the car and quickly puts on the seatbelt. She gets in the car as well and then drives away. 

That would be the last time I had ever seen Sophia for years. I was only 4 years old then. I didn't know what was happening and how it would change my life. 

The only reason they attacked us, was for our feet. And maybe our eyes, too. Our feet, for their flippers. Our eyes, for their color. I'll explain more.