Long Way From Home

In her youth, a young girl has always had the short end of the stick. Nothing ever went right for her. Starting off being orphaned with her little twin sister. Being the oldest in a horrible household in the middle of the countryside didn't help her situation any more. Always being punished for the younger children's bad deeds or for not watching over them or taking care of them.

She never cared about how much she was "punished". But, when it was one of the others for the first time, she wouldn't let it happen. Something came over her. She gained a fearful strength that left her in pain, but the pain was nothing compared to what had been done to her before.

She felt uneasy with her newfound strength. Fear overrode her train of thought. She didn't want to accidentally hurt one of the children. She ended up running away, telling only the youngest of the few, but not her twin. She feared she would neglect her school work and try to come with her. That was one of few things she did not want to happen because of her.

Several years after leaving home, she found herself wandering the streets of a city unknown to her. She noticed the place was very different from many of the others she'd encountered. One of those things that made it different, was a bleached blond man who wore the clothes of a bartender with a supremely bad temper. She was interested.

And she was tired.