300 years ago
Creeeeaaak. Silence.
In the dark of night a girl about 14 years old gathers what little valuables and supplies she can take. on her bed a note to her mother explaining her actions and her choice. if all goes to plan, by the time it is discovered she would be long gone. With one last sigh of regret the girl grabs two items a book and an old toy goose, both bearing a silver sharp spiral.
All is quiet as she leaves the house and enters the cloudy night
"ok Katie, this is for the best and wellbeing of everyone you care about" she says partially to herself partially to some invisible person." It's best for everyone if I leave and never return" again to this ghostly person.
Things go on like this, her muttering partially to her self mostly for some ghostly person who wasn't really there. Until.
Until she reaches the lake at the edge of the settlement. Glowing with its supernatural light, it seems almost inviting her to skate across it's decievingly solid surface. But Katie knew all to well what lied beneath the lake's shining guise of ice. Knew exactly what would happen if she ventured onto the ice. She knew, oh yes, she knew, and she wasn't about to be taken by the lake's icy waters tonight nor ever. She wouldn't meet her brother's fate. She would accept the gift Jack had given her by drowning instead of her. Still, despite the pain, the lake is where she stops, falls to her knees, and cries silently
"Goodbye Jack and I'm sorry."
With this she leaves the lake and her home behind never to return. Katie thought this was the end of the matter...
... She couldn't have been more wrong.