My name is Kayley. I live in a college. I was brought there by my mother, whom died the next day. I was raised by the master of the college and pretty much everyone in it.
Master Galen was like my grandfather. Old, slight rounded belly, deep set eyes that glistened behind his half-moon spectacles. He was wise, kind, and an upstanding member in the city of Air-een. He never had a children or wife, so he treated me like his own. I loved him as well with all my heart, he and the college were the only home and family I knew.
His college was home to some of the most intellectual minds in the country. They were professors, philosophers of their study and my mentors as Master Galen saw to it that I and the other children of the workers living at the college obtained an education.
My best friend was Caleb Laths. He was like my twin brother. We had adventures together, got in trouble together, and grew up together. His father was Samuel Laths, a cook in the giant kitchen that fed everyone in the college. He was a strong man, kind at heart and loved his family with every inch of his body, including me. His mother was Hala Laths. She was a Head Maid. She was a short thin woman, loving, quiet, and tender. She was our nurse when Caleb or I was sick, she was my mother as I grew up. Caleb also had a baby sister Lillian. She was a bright, giggly baby. Always smiling and well tempered.
I never knew either of my parents. My mother, so I was told, stumbled upon the college steps late one winter night with a tiny newborn, me. Master Galen took her in. But she died the next day and Master Galen took me in as his own as well.
As a child I loved adventure. Many nights you could find Caleb and me on the roofs of the college. We would play games by the river; we would save the damsels in distress or sword fight with wooden swords.
The adults were always worrying about us. But we never got hurt, we even fell from the roof once and landed on the ground, everyone thought surly that we were dead, but miraculously we stood and walked off unharmed.
Eighteen years later I still am living at my beloved college, with my family happily…