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When Alicia woke up that morning, she realized she had been low on dang sam and would need to go toward the middle of the island near the old temple to gather more. She would be able to gather extra so she could sell it next time she made a supply run to Fort Condor.
She stopped as she thought of the time she had spent on this island. It had been on the sea that she had recognized the symptoms; her mother had been the village healer. She had a miscarriage. She didn't quite know how to feel about that. On the one hand, she was not happy that she had been pregnant. She still didn't feel clean after the scientist had raped her and the thought of carrying the child to term was not a pleasant one.
On the other hand, she loved the idea of being a mother, and the thought of having a child all to herself was worth any horror she might have felt for the manner in which she got pregnant. There was also the fear of what they did to her making it impossible for her to have her own children, as the scientists had feared.
Since her capture, she also noticed that she couldn't talk. She figured her experiences at the hands of the monsters in human skin had scarred her. So, she was surprised when she was staring off to the nearing shore when she noticed she was singing. After experimenting, she found that the only vocal noise she could make was musical.
When she had gotten to the island, she had set up a home in a cave and then set up a second cave for if the cave she was in had to be abandoned. Then, she used the teachings her mother gave her to begin gathering herbs and medicines. Since this was a new area that she lived in, she wasn't able to gather much because she didn't recognize many of the plants. She gathered enough to load her boat up then she set sail toward the mainland. She went to the city she could see from the coastline and traded the herbs she had. She had a little trouble due to the fact that she couldn't talk to them, but they were finally able to come to an agreement.
She was able to get a few books on the plant life in the jungles she was in so she could gather all herbs and food using the knowledge to her advantage. After sailing back to the island, she spent the next year learning to survive on the island. She even learned to hunt some dangerous animals and gather valuable materials from them as well. Every two months, she would travel back to fort condor and, steadily she was gaining wealth.
After the first year, she had an abundance of Gil that she didn't need for necessities she began gathering materia. She paid a mercenary to go around gathering every piece of materia he found. She eventually had a materia of all the summons and most of the magic and command materia.
Now, Alicia had been on this island for four years and was beginning to wonder if she would ever leave. She did not want to go back to living in a town, or even a city, and she was relatively happy here even if she did wish for a few people to be close by. But she was content with the summons, they always had interesting stories to tell. She was extremely happy they could hear her thoughts so she could still talk to them.
She started suddenly and began berating herself for daydreaming, she had wasted time she could have spent doing something useful. The summons began talking to her the moment she started moving.
"You know Alicia, you could try exploring the temple again. We would be there to help if you run into any problems."Shiva said.
But Alicia just shook her head. ' I've tried but I can't find a way in, so I can only look at the one room. It's boring. I think I'll just collect herbs today.'
"Why don't you go to other towns and continents? You can fight extremely well, so pretty much no monster you run into will be a problem," Bahamut interrupted. "Especially with us on you and the strength you got when they enhanced you. We can go to unexplored parts of the world and find exotic treasures and-"
'And have some other scientist notice that my eyes glow and I have sparkle shaped pupils instead of round, and then be subjected to more painful tests and imprisonment where I will be separated from all of you and quite possibly killed.' She thought with a monotone. 'No, I'm better off here. I'm mostly happy and I'm considering adopting an orphan or two, and I will have everything I need.'
Alicia looked up to realize she was getting close to the temple, and she started looking around for any herbs that she could sell. She had been at it for close to an hour when she heard something that she had never even imagined. It sounded like something large had crashed into a few trees. She jumped into one of the trees and began making her way towards the source of the noise.
She got half way to the coastline when she saw a group of travelers; there were seven of them, and they seemed to be wary and looking around for things to pop out and fight them. She laughed silently as they walked into no less then seven insect nests and ten monster dens, all on the way toward the temple at the middle of the island. Once they got to the temple, she noticed that three of the ones in the front went into the temple and the rest started to watch the jungle, like they were standing guard, and she scoffed at their stupidity for only watching the ground.
Alicia followed the three who went into the temple and smelled blood as soon as she looked in the door. She saw a black haired man, injured, give a funny shaped rock to the group. Then she stared angrily at them as they left him there. She started to back out when she noticed him pass out.
"Hatchling, you must leave here this temple is not safe any longer! When they get to the center they will be able to kill anybody who is still in the temple! Get out now!" She jolted at the shout coming from Bahamut. Then, angry at herself, cast a restore at the black haired man and picked him up, she quickly left making sure none of the others in the group saw her leave, then she began heading towards her cave, grabbing any herbs she came across as she walked.
