User blog:Cdragon13/Chapter 1 Draft

So, I decided to write a sort of a short novel and I hope you enjoy it. It has nothing to do with HoA or anything but there's really nowhere else for me to get it to the public, so please read / comment / share if you have any time, if not that's perfectly fine :D I understand. Thanks, and enjoy.

Chapter One: Alone
I was alone again. Naturally. What had I expected? The previous years had shown an inevitable pattern of such rejections, and I had learned to trust my instincts. The people had been kind, but it was a detached sort of kindness, as one expected another to show for a child that was not their own. They had, in fact, given me everything I needed and much more, but I could see it in their eyes, the way they regarded me as something to be treated as foreign, kept at a distance. It was their eyes that gave them away. From the first moments of my life with them, I knew that I wasn’t wanted. It was only a matter of time before they shut me out.

Well, what’s past is past. After so many years, I learned to live with it. To forget the past. To move on. I was always on the move. I knew that they would come after me and find me again, but I had already learned the ways of the street and how to survive.

As I cowered in an alley, straining my ears for the sound of footsteps and sirens, I heard a different sound. A new sound. I had heard the whistle of the wind in treetops, the chirp of crickets in the grass, the pounding of feet in the snow and the sounds of the street. This was different. I hurriedly scanned the alley, trying to locate the sound.

The alley was dark and full of empty bottles and trash. As I looked through everything, keeping a keen eye out for anything useful, I also looked for the source of the strange sound. Finally, I found her.

