Once every twelve years, a girls is to be chosen, to become a sacrifice, for what you may ask? Well all explained in time, for now let me explain that these people do not take it lightly, the girl "chosen" to become the maiden for sacrificial rituals, are to be enclosed far away from the rest of mankind, not to see a single soul, not even the ones protecting their surroundings, living alone in a secluded prison for the time they reach the appropriate age, which the age of 16. The time they are old enough to be given to the gods who desire young human girl's blood, or so every person has been taught so far, no one even to question why, as it is part of the religion…... Personally, I think it is plain silly, as I the current maiden am sitting in this garden, all alone, with only the small animals to give me company. On this quiet spring day, the birds around me singing their wonderful melodies, and the newborn animals playing around or simply lazing in the sun just like me, wild animals can easily enter, which most seem to be tame(which must mean that the ones keeping me here must want to give me some sort of company?), plus there is no walls to my prison, so they can leave anytime they want.
Why I haven't tried escaping, you ask? Well I have, several times to be in fact, but something keeps me from leaving, every time I enter the forest, it just seems to pull me back to my prison, no matter what I do! Quite frustrating, right? It happens every time, and I have no clue how the people bringing me food every meal come by unnoticed to me, and how it is possible for them to return to wherever they came from! I wish to come along! I wish to see the world! …. But I guess… Every maiden before me must have felt the same…. It is lonely in this large prison, large for one person to live in for 12 years at least. Won't anyone come and find me? Take me away from this secluded and lonely place, and show me the world?