Full Summary:
Kady Jessop was born in 1649. She is sixteen years old. She knows more about the modern world then she knows about her own world. What happens when the team stumbles upon an Anomaly she has just come out of? Will they make her go back? Or is she able to stay when they learn about her unusual gift?
From The Past:
Jessop Home:
Diary Entry:
I was about ten when I first realized that I had bigger dreams than what my family would allow. I had always wanted to be something other than just a wife. Growing up in 1649 England had its disadvantages. Granted, there were a few nice outfits back then, but I never really got the idea that women were anywhere treated the way people were treated in what I learned to be the future when I looked at it. But I am getting off topic at the moment. Hi, I am Kady Jessop of 1649 England and I am different from my fellow neighbors.
Most of my neighbors tend to stay away from me when I am out and about town. Mum and dad say it is because I look so wild. They say it is because of my birth that I am so different. I know that my mum and dad aren't my real parents and I can't help but wonder what happened to them for me to be taken in by another family. I am the oldest of the children and I know that if anything were to befall the family, I would be put out almost immediately. So I have devised a plan. I take stock of things nobody will miss like some extra food and clothing that gets thrown out and take it to my secret place. There I prep to leave this awful town behind.
Word has come through the towns that there are ministers coming from London looking for what some may call witches. I am not a witch, but if they wish to live, my neighbors will throw me to the wolves. I fear that my own mum and dad would also throw me to the wolves so I prepare to leave as soon as possible. I will bring my journal with me and make it look like someone took me from my room in the barn by force so as not to throw suspicion my way that I may be a witch. I need to get out before the ministers arrive from London to take the very breath from my body. My soul shall be free of this place for good.
There is no telling what time mum and dad will be home so I must hurry. If they catch me leaving, then my plans will be thwart and I will surely be hung. I do not want to die, so leave this place once and for all, hopefully for good. I know not if anyone knows of my secret place, but I do know that once I get there, I surely will be safe. I have built my secret place in an old mine that no one goes to anymore. I shall be safe there for some time until it is time to venture on. I grab the last of what I will need while I am on my own like blankets, a pillow and warm clothes. I have grabbed a pair of dad's breeches two warm jackets.
I leave a small piece of paper attached to the horse stall under my room. It simply says 'they took me and will kill me if anyone shall come looking'. Hopefully they will not venture to find me. I must go now.
A Gift:
I was away from my home within seconds after leaving the note attached to the stall. My room was messed so that my folks would think I was taken by force. I made my way silently through the deserted back streets of my town and finally made it to my small secret place that I know not if anyone knows about. I move into the room, moving the small door into place before going to the bed I have made up. I put the blanket and pillow down before I prepare to hunker down for however long I need to before I know it is safe to venture out.
I fall asleep soon after escaping and wake up to the sound of people searching. I move to the door and look through the hole in the door that I have made big enough for me to look out. As soon as my hand touches the door, the wood turns to stone and all that I see is the people of town passing my hiding spot and moving on. They do not know that the hiding spot even exists. I watch as they turn, running back to the town as if scared of something. I hold my breath as I see my dad run past and not able to make it to where the rest of the men are hiding as something shakes the ground, bending its head down to grab my dad up into its mouth. Blood squirts everywhere and he is dead before I can move. I stifle a scream and make ready to leave. Something has happened and I must get away before whatever the giant thing was comes back and finds me hiding and eats me as well.
I turn back to my hidden things and pack what I know I will need. I open up the blanket and put books, my pillow, clothes, the food and one of the warm jackets I took from my dad inside. I get out of my dress and pull the breeches on, keeping my boots on the whole time knowing that I will need them. I put my skirt in the blanket, pull the other warm jacket on and tie the blanket corners together, forming a small bag. I put the water skin over my shoulder and neck so that it hangs under my right arm. I pull my hair into a pony, put a hat on, put the rope and blanket bag on my bag, tying the remainder of the rope around my waist so that I will not lose my belongings and move to the door.
Before I leave I turn towards my secret place and pick up the small knife. My money pouch is in one of the jacket pockets and I know that I will need the knife to defend myself against whatever comes my way. I also know that I can use my gift as a way to keep myself from being seen and to control the animals around me. That's another reason I left home. I have the ability to tame any animal I am around. The others believed it to be the sign of witchcraft but mum and dad saw it as a sign of what was to come for the family. Suffice it to say, I was the one that made all the money in the house. I was easily disposable.
The First Anomaly:
I moved the now stone door out of the entrance and replaced it once I was again in the woods. The door was definitely stone but it was as light as a small wooden door would be. I moved quietly, keeping my distance from whatever it was that had eaten my dad. When I came upon the glowing crystal like thing in the middle of the woods, I didn't need much convincing. Whatever had eaten my dad had come from here and if I was were to ever really be free I would also have to step through this portal and go wherever it took me. So I did just that. I stepped through and was transported back in time.
The animals I saw at first looked friendly but I soon found out that the ones that had all the sharp teeth wanted nothing more than to eat me. I used my gift of taming animals and told them that I was also running from something that wanted me dead and that if they let me live, then I would let them live. I wanted nothing more than to be free of my past. That seemed to suffice them for a while, and even though it was a little bit of a lie, I knew that it had given me enough time to get away from them. Once out of range of them, I used my gift and became invisible. I moved through the animals, them unaware of even my presence and moved towards where my necklace was pulling me to.
Another thing about these anomalies that I soon realized is that they were attracted to certain metals and when I realized this I knew that I could track them with the necklace that my birth family had given me when they had given me up. I used my necklace as a sort of compass to get me to the next anomaly and then through that one as well. I had spent a total of four hours in the past and when I came out through the second anomaly, I was in the future, well a future way different than my own, that was for sure. What I didn't realize about my necklace until much later was that I also had the ability to open portals to different time periods and move through those as well without being seen by whatever lived during that time period.
My life was now full of everything I had ever dreamed about. And I now knew why my birth parents had given me up in the first place. I had been born in a different time period and they had stumbled upon 1649 England on accident and had either been separated from me or thought my life was better lived in that time so they had left me. I just hoped that I would come upon my real time period and hopefully meet my birth parents and get to know them like I was not able to growing up.