A Girl in Time Chapter I
Huddling on that hard, terribly black ground that wasn't ground, Kira cried. She had never cried before, she had never needed to. Now, it was the only thing that would let her feelings and desires unleash into understandable, coherent fruition. This whole place had changed her life in a single step. One step in her normal everyday, beautiful world; the next in a strange and different place.
Her world was green and brown with so many shades in between. It had wind that whispered and light that laughed. Grass that yelled if you didn't come and play and the people! Oh, the people! The throng that lived in the peaceful world had no need of tears or anger, no need of sadness for they had everything they could ever desire out of life.
Kira herself had grown into the young female that she was in that world. Grown up laughing and joking with her deceased ancestors, who loved her very much and understood her and taught her the ways that they knew. She had been the older child in her family, with her younger sister tagging along wherever she went. Kira never minded, and she taught her sister as she grew to understand the ways of her people.
Tahmira grew to love her sibling, and even to see her with a kind of awe. Once Kira had walked in on Tahmira while her sister was writing in her ever-growing journal. Sneaking up on Tahmira, Kira had tickled her younger sister to great peals of laughter and joy in life.
Kira smiled the memory of her sister. Then immediately cried again at the thought of never being able to see her beloved 'Mira again. Kira thought of this horrid world she had stepped into and was trapped in.
This place was black. It had light but no natural light, all imitation. You couldn't see the stars (if there were any), and the sky was black like it was possessed by evil. The very air was heavy with darkness. The wind cried, too, with pain at having to pass into this plagued place. There were no plants or living things, just horrid machines (Kira had heard of these strange metal contraptions before and was glad that they were forbidden on her planet) that had rolling wheels to move their crazy masters. The people who inhabited this planet were strange. They acted and thought with hostility and anger. Sadness dominated a few too. Hopelessness and fear. Kira knew the names, but not the feelings. These people spoke with a different language and even had different dialect depending on the individual.
Suddenly, Kira heard the sound of one machine coming closer to her and she huddled even tighter into a corner between two burnt, red, scratchy walls. It stopped and a side opened to reveal one of the strange inhabitants of this world that Kira was stuck in. A light swept the ground, eating and spitting out the shadows and the dark to reveal the hidden spots of color. The light found her. Kira curled into a ball and rocked from the fear of being in such a dark and bleak place. She rocked with such intensity that the stranger was surprised.
This male being spoke in sounds and gestures. He held out an arm and moved his wrist back and forth to her in what seemed a greeting, but Kira only moved back into herself to try and hide. But it was no use. The male creature would not leave and was finally reduced to pulling her up into a sitting then standing position. Kira struck out at this strange male who put his filth of emotions on her and destroyed her last innocence of what life could be. Kira hit and pounded this man.
The thought made Kira stop and go rigid with terror at the new word in her vocabulary. It was never there before. The momentary lapse of resistance was enough for this man (Kira shuddered as the word came involuntarily) to push her to the ground face down and take her arms to be able to put her wrists in metal bands.
The touch of something familiar calmed Kira into an almost trance state. With her calmed the man gently pushed her into the side of the machine and they left the place where Kira had lost something for the first time. Her Family.