I watched the traffic flying down the highway. Another day more of traveling and I would break. I sighed as I placed my ear buds deep within my ears.

"I should be use to this by now." I grumbled to myself.

"Think of it as an adventure, Audra." My brother Calhad smiled through the rear view mirror at me. God, did
he always have to be so cheery?

"That might have worked when we were children,Calhad, but this moving every 6 months got boring some years
ago!" I in nodded in agreement to my sister Holly's words. "I'm tired. Can't we pull over and rest soon?"

"Ok ladies only a few miles to go and we will be to the new house. You guys are really going to fall in love with
this one! It's in the middle of no where, just the three of us and nature!" Calhad always tried his hardest to make
the best of our situation. I had to be at least grateful for that.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that." I grumbled. What ever gave Calhad the idea that I would be happy in
a cabin the woods was far beyond my comprehension. Give me a sky scrapper in Manhattan any day!
But that would never work, we had tried that. It was a nice couple of weeks before we were discovered.
Yes, that was life, I knew I must except it, but somewhere deep down, I knew there had to be a safe place, somewhere to call home.

The ideas was that as long as we ran, we would be safe. So we did. City after city, country after country, somehow it never was far enough, the danger always found us and we were forced to run once more.

Of course the "danger" was only ever warned of, never seen and as I grew older I began to wonder if it had even existed in the first place. I could never really recall anything from our past that screamed to support any of the tales Calhad would often tell and from what I had seen of the world, the things he often spoke of where more of fairy tale monsters and evil.
I often fantasized about going off to school or having friends, but then I would think of the heartbreak
it would cause my brother and sister.
So I stayed. Not that Calhad would have let me go anyways. He knew every move I made, probably even before I knew I was going to do it.

Calhad had provided little information why it was we were leaving our "home" once again. If you called the flat in Los Angles we had been occupying for the last 6 months home.
I thought I was in heaven when we had stayed that long hoping that whatever threat there was had lost us at last. I had finally started to feel safe, but alas it came as no surprise when one day I had arrived
"home" to find my things packed and a worried Calhad. But it had been this way from birth, or at least as long as I could remember.
Slowly the landscape began to change and the dusty road of the desert began to give away to a plush forest and vast fields of pulled the car to a stop outside a small cabin and I knew them I was in hell.

"The forces of Mordor will never find us here." I laughed. Calhad hated when I joked with him over the topic. But really? The whole thing was getting to be too much. All my life I was raised on the tales, raised to believe that there was something not of this world, that hunted us, that came for us.

"That is nothing to joke of little sister. I have not worked for this long to have you mock me. One day you'll see I have had cause to act as I have." He was cross with me, I could tell I had hurt surveying our surroundings, I wasn't all too sure that I was my hell! "One day, you will understand fully the severity of our situation."

"And what situation would that be?" I slammed the door as I exited the car. "I don't think our situation can get much worse than this place. Do we even get any signal out here? What exactly am I supposed to do for entertainment out here?"

"No little sister, no cell signals,no internet, no way possible to trace us." Calhad shot me a warning look."And just maybe with such little distraction, you can continue your studies with Holly."

"Studies my ass!" I hated my "studies". Sewing and poetry. Things a proper "lady" should know. An endless preparation for a life that may never come to be. "Would you really have me be nothing but an air head?"

"Calhdad has much to speak with us about Audra, I suggest we get settled before he gets started." Holly pulled me to her side as we followed Calhad into the cabin."You really should learn to not upset him so much. He only wants whats best for us."