2. Had she now gone mad?
Yay! Chapter two! Wait…is it the second? Before there was only the past story…ehm…that's not important.
"Dammit! What do I actually do here? Why do I live?" she asked herself sadly.
Since Mara left the orphanage ten years ago, she lived on small thefts. She hadn't a home anywhere, because she kept travelling from town to town. She had never really had friends, at least never for long, for they would always part quickly as they travelled into different cities.
"I want to get out of here…" she murmured.
Just as she had uttered these words, a black figure with glowing eyes appeared in front of her.
Mara rubbed completely irritated her eyes. Had she now gone mad and started seeing ghosts?
The shadow held out his hand. It was obvious that he want Mara to take it.
She hesitated a moment before she took his hand. What had she to lose? Anything was better than a life on the road…
A queasy feeling spread through her as the shadow began to float and her feet slowly took off from the ground.
She saw the city getting smaller and the night sky getting closer.
She was dizzy and a faint feeling of panic spread through her.
If she should fall from this height… Mara squeezed her eyes tight shut.
"Only a dream. Just an oblique dream." she whispered to herself. "In a moment I will wake up.", the 16-years-old opened her eyes again.
Still she saw the world becoming smaller beneath her. Still the shadow held her hand.
Panic overwhelmed her, Mara's heart raced and then her vision went black.
As Mara awoke, she heard the sound of the sea and felt the sand on which she lay.
She raised her head and opened her eyes.
Mara spat out a load of sand. "Ugh…sand! …WHAT?! Sand?!" she asked aloud in confusion.
She looked around.
Okay… here there was ever sand… sea and a jungle. This was vaguely familiar.
Mara sighed: "Where have I ended up?" She stood up.
In front of her was nothing but jungle, behind her endless ocean and other than that, just sand… Slowly she began to develop a slight aversion towards sand…
"Okay… do not go crazy… Only a dream.", the girl tried to calm herself and then she went into the jungle…