rosiemay's p.o.v

I woke up early in the morning like always to get some food. i live in a island named seam it has very little access to food during winter it gets extremely cold but in other season there are a lot of droughts and food is hard to grow also animals are hard to hunt scines we have very little food. like most families here my family lives in the forest my aunt taught me how to hunt after my mother was taken for slavery by outcast island my father was taken two years before. me and my older brother maxwell live with my aunt and uncle and our grandma our grandpa died leaving my grandma to live alone so my aunt asked my grandma if she would like to live with us we have a cellar for when ever the outcasts comes to take people. sometimes i wonder if my parents are still alive and still remember us and they...still love me. well you never know when the next raid or drought will be so you ALWAYS need to be ready ,you need to have your cellar ready ,you need everything ready.

that morning i got my hunting bag and headed outside two hours later i came back with nothing but two birds and a squirlled well actually i also hit a turkey but gave it to a poor boy i saw dying of hunger (hey he looked younger) when i got back i found my grandma in her chair crosheting, maxwell helping my aunt set the table and my uncle fixing her his broken stool. when i set down my catch and hunting stuff at the floor then i went to help maxwell and my aunt then my aunt stopped what she was doing and said "your school of dragon letters are here are here" those words made maxwell drop what he had in his hands then exitedly look up and say "really when do i leave". i was confused the school of dragons is a school that is actually a whole island made by berkians ever scines berk made peace with dragons most islands in the archipelago did even seam we think that if we have dragons hunting would be easy but not most kids here don't get accepted maxwell enrolled for the first time two year ago this was his second year he always gets accepted his dragon is a gronckle named rowan he lives in the cellar but during times when they went to school he would be there. in the summer i would be near tears of joy because i would be happy to see my brother after 9 months. "aunt i think i heard you wrong you said letters i don't get accepted" my aunt smiled and said "you heard me right rosiemay a letter came for you too"then she handed my and maxwell our letters i was shocked very shocked i read it 5 times this can't be happening i kept telling myself for every time i read the letter "but i never enrolled" then my aunt went back to work and said "well i thought it would be nice for you and maxwell to go to the school together that way you two could see each other more it can also allow to meet other people from other places" that last part i could care less about because i am not really social. the rest i think my aunt was right i do need maxwell sometimes i go to sleep at night thinking he is in the other bed but when i wake up that's when i discover that he is not here. many people love summer because that's when the crops sprout but i love it because maxwell comes home, home where i belong were he belongs, home were we can be together. Where i live most girl's best friend is someone who saved them or they met in the woods sometimes they don't even have a best friend but my best friend is my brother. Okay it may sound unnatural but i don't wanna be a normal person."okay well when do we leave" i said,the last wanted was to leave my family but i didn't want to miss my brother...again,"tomorow the boats will arrive" then i sighed "when do we start packing" i asked" right after diner" she anwsered me "hey rosiemay why not you help while you wait" my uncle called i walked over to him and started helping him then diner came it wasn't much it was just what i caught from the woods and some corn. i finished my food and then went to my room to pack thinking about it straightly