Chapter 1- The Stone - Intro
It started out as a normal day. Shani was going fishing, her favorite pastime. When she got to her favorite fishing spot; she looked around at it; the fishing spot was a small secluded area that was hidden behind long grass the ground was a mixure of dirt and sand. she couldn't help but stare in the Ninor River that was where she fished.
She looked at her reflection in the water. She was pretty, she knew this because all the local boys wouldn't leave her alone. She stared again; she had blue eyes and black hair that reached to her waist , her skin was pale despite her being in the sun all day. She didn't tan when in the sun but burned, but luckily the local healer made this concoction called "sun screen". She was 5 feet 7 inches.
When she stepped into the water to cool her feet; she put her pole down on the beach and went into the water as it was a hot day outside. She ended up going into her the water to her feet then calves then knees then waist, until it was up to her head. Then she went under water to take a quick dip. Another of her favorite past times swimming and she was quite good at it. As soon as the water covered her head she opened her eyes. Just that second she saw a school of sun fish weaving in and out of the weed. "If only I had a net then I could feed the whole entire village of Yazuac" she thought "for a week" she added to herself.
Just as she was about to push up from the sand of the lake to propel herself up her feet hit something soft and curved. She looked down and saw a stone protruding half buried in the sand. The stone was emerald green and it looked as if it was so smooth that it looked like It would take a decade for someone to make shape it. She looked harder and she could see little veins of white all into the stone.
She couldn't hold her breath much longer so she swam up to the surface. It only took her a moment to breath air back in her lungs and then she dove down again. This time she wasn't going to enjoy the sights but claim the stone. Shani dove down to the stone and tried to tug at it to bring it up, it wouldn't budge. After a while of frustrating tugging she had to come up for air. "I'm going to have to dig it out then" she said to herself. It took her three trips down to release the stone from it's sandy prison but in the end she prevailed. Once she was out of the water with the stone she felt refreshed and felt proud of herself.
She noticed that it was almost lunch time and she told her mum that she would be home by noon. So she started to walk home, but before she moved ten feet she decided that she wasn't going to tell her parents about the stone, not yet at least. She knew that her pop would sell it if she showed it to them her pop would sell it he wasn't a greedy man but if he had something to sell that would be of value that wasn't needed he would sell it . So she started to dig a hole in the ground quickly until there was a hole big enough for the stone. Before she covered the hole in the ground she stroked the stone one time and said "I'll be back tomorrow". Suddenly she felt stupid and couldn't help but look around her to see if anyone was there. "I'm losing my mind by talking to a stone" she thought to herself. She started to feel stupid but happy all the same. And so she grabbed her fishing pole and started home.