• I walked through the night, intent on bringing this to the prince. My mission for now. The ferret at my side was slower, so he just stayed on my shoulder.
    This was my desteny. This was my life. I was finally able to leave that damned forest, but I had to deliver this. The ferret, Nemer, said this 'legend' was coming true, but he never told me.
    It got me pissed off pretty fast, so I often ignored it. He was really annoying.
    My name? It's Samina. I come from the forest called Honen, guarded by a statue, or untill recently.
    My goal is to bring a stone to Hilien, the village near Honen. There, the prince will tell me what to do. But I doubt he will have a use for me. A girl who has almost no skills in fighting, wearing a green dress-like everyone in Honen- carrying a sword and a sheild. Not very legend style to me.
    But I walked on, just to know what all this s**t is about. The journey takes five days, and I just started it.
    As I walked, I trained. I practiced for some time before I walked in the morning, and again before sleep. I didn't get all that better,though, but it was no shock. I stink at this. Why they can't send another person from Honen, I don't know.
    Nemer got in my hair, again.
    "Nemer! Get out of my hair!" I yelled at him.
    "You were ignoring me, so that's what I do." He retorted.
    "And then you wonder why."
    My lovely brown-blond hair was now a mess, so as I pulled my fingers through it, I scratched my pointy ear.
    "Ow!" I muttered.
    "Not my fault this time." That ferret seemed to be able to talk to me while he slept. It creeped me out.
    "I wasn't blaming you, you know." I muttered, and fixed my brown gloves. My boots were getting too small again. It seemed as if I was the only one who grew in that forest. No one knew I did, but I saw that they didn't.
    But from this point, it now had been almost five days I had been walking. I could see Hilien from here, so I started to run. I was hungry, so I made it there fast.
    "Food, get your food here!" Someone yelled. I walked to the man.
    "Hello. What would you like?" He asked.
    I grabbed at the food, and ate.
    "Little girl, you have to pay for those." He told me.
    "With what?" I asked.
    "Money."
    "What's that?"
    "How will you pay for those?"
    As he spoke, the stone fell out. If you looked at it, it looked like an emerald was embedded into it. So he took it.
    "Give it back!" I screamed.
    "You get it back when you pay for what you just ate."
    "Here." A boy said. "Take these." He dumped a diamond shaped thing into the mans palms, and took my stone. He took my hand.
    "Follow me."
    He towed me to a fountain.
    "Thank-you." I told him.
    "No problem."
    He had brown-blond hair and blue eyes, and he was probably only ten, like me. He looked at my brown eyes as I looked at him.
    "I need to go see the prince." I told him.
    "Prince Herald? I can take you to him, we are close friends."
    "Thanks."
    "But." He said. "I've never had a friend, and I would like to see what it would be like to play with someone my age. I will take you to him if you play with me."
    "Deal."