My name is Weena. I come from a faraway land. Far away in time, that is. All the way in the year 802,701. But lately, I have ended up in your time. Allow me to explain what happened.
First, let me explain that in 802,701, the time period I come from, there are two groups of people: the Eloi, and the Morlocks. (I, by the way, am an Eloi.) The Morlocks live underground and come out at night to capture Eloi to eat. Once that nearly happened to me! But I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let me start from the beginning.
One summer day in 802,701, some of the Eloi, myself included, were swimming in the river. Suddenly, I lost my footing and got carried off by the current. I didn't expect anyone to rescue me, because Eloi generally don't care about such things. But I did get rescued. My rescuer was a man who called himself the Time Traveler. He was tall, had brown hair, and wore strange-looking clothes with places in them to put flowers.
After the Time Traveler rescued me, I followed him nearly everywhere. I say "nearly" because once he went down a shaft leading to the Morlocks' home, and I was too scared to follow. Anyway, the Time Traveler told me about the time period he came from, and he said he wanted to bring me back with him. I was eager to go, because he told me there were no Morlocks in his home time. But that's when it happened.
One night, the Time Traveler and I were outside when Morlocks came attacking. That's when the Morlocks nearly captured and ate me. I felt something grabbing at my feet, and when I realized it was a Morlock, I screamed. The Morlock let go in surprise, but I was still so scared that I fainted.
I came to the next morning, but I saw no sign of the Time Traveler. I realized what had happened: he thought I was dead and left for his own time by himself. I thought I would never see him again. Little did I know I was wrong!
So Weena has described the events of the book from her perspective. Stay tuned for the next chapter!