*Kai*

It was hard to believe it had been nearly eight years since my sister and I arrived in the valley.

It was so long ago that there was a haziness surrounding the memory. It was not that parts of it were blurry, but there was a dream-like quality to it. I had been a scrawny eighteen-year-old at the time, still very much a kid in a lot of ways.

What I remembered most about that day was my excitement for entering the unknown. I loved my initial home in Drogomor, ...