The Lost and the Forgotten

"As I look around me, I'm surrounded by strangers with pointed ears where I remember the trees being. Fear clenches my gut and pain lances through my head. I can't raise myself upright, my body frozen in place. I try to speak but no words come out. All I can do is stare wide-eyed. What happened? Who are these people? Most importantly, where am I?"

Maera Caign has always been human, at least she thought, with her no-good mother and her mother's dead-beat boyfriend. She had always wished to get out of the crap-life she was living, but she never thought it would actually happen. But it was a rainy day, and she needed shelter if she didn't want to go back home, so the woods were her best option. Until she wakes suddenly surrounded by strangers, not remembering how she got there, only that she knew she wasn't in her world anymore.