Chapter 1

Cold, is all I can feel. The winds are blowing over me, sending chills down my spine. My eyes hurt and sting from the chill.

I can't feel my body, I try to move but I feel nothing. My body feels as if it is moving by something, where is it taking me.

Muffled voices talk back an fourth. I can't make out any details at all.

It doesn't take long for me to pass out into endless darkness.

My eyes opened, I was looking at some thick leather roofing of a tent. The smell was, leathery. Heavy furs lay on top of my body almost keeping my weak body from rising up.

Why did I feel so, weak?

I looked out an opening of the tent seeing a fire lit up in the white snow. A slight chill blew through the tent, I wasn't eager to leave the bed.

Shifting my heavy, but small body I managed to pull myself out of the tent.

The sun had risen and begun warming my body on touch. A strange figure sat on a log next to the fire. He stared at me as if I was a ghost, keeping quiet as I stared back at him. His most odd feature was his feline features, ears, eyes, nose, and mouth all feline.

He was a cat man, I thought to myself.

Unsure whether he was friendly or not, I backed away and began walking to another tent. This tent was bigger than the one I had been sleeping in, however out the front of the tent sat a woman cat person. Like the man she began to stare at me.

I felt like asking what it was they were staring at, but never did.

Perhaps they want to eat me, I thought but why didn't they eat me before if that was the case.

Maybe, they were waiting for me to wake up. I thought again, my mind was doing flips making excuses. I was too frightened to actually say anything. I had never seen anyone like this before.

Think that thought, I began to wonder, why?

Why did I not remember these people, how I got here, who I am?

The questions began to build, making me question what was really going on. My mind began to race trying to find the answers.

I collapsed in the snow, the cat people rushed over to me, before finally black again.

I was back again, in this place, with the strange people, in the same tent.

I sat up on the bed, raising my hands from the furs I ran my hand over my face. Smooth to the touch, no fur. I was not one of these cat people.

Why was I with them here then?

Was I kidnapped?

I stopped myself from trying to remember too much at once.

Clearly something was going on here, but first I should focus on small things.

My name is… my mind was blank, trying to recover this memory.

Name, name, name… I was drawing letters in the air with my finger.

I got to M when I triggered something.

Suddenly a wave of nostalgia came over me.

I saw children, I was laughing with them, and we were having a good time.

A boy grabbed me by my arm and pulled me along, calling my name.

"Come on M… let's go!" he energetically said.

M… M… I still could not place it.

Another memory triggered, this time was a garden with a woman.

I was planting flowers. This woman was kind, gentle, she had long dark hair and soft smile. She cared for me deeply.

My mother, she was teaching me to garden.

A large man appeared from one side of the garden gave my mother a quick greeting before going on his way.

"Mir…, let's go" my mother called to me grabbing my hand.

"Wow you sure are growing into a big girl now aren't you, Mira…" My mother faded from my mind.

Tears were running down my cheeks, it was a good memory, but sad.

"Mira" I said to myself.

My name is Mira.