How Lya met Allysa
Told from Lya's point of view
- This story begins on my birthday, when I was playing around in the rose garden of my grandparents house. I was playing hide and seek with a girl from the neighbourhood, when I saw something blue shimmering in one of the half-opened buds. When I opened the rose, I found a tiny orb. I didn't know how it got there, but I took it with me.
A few days later, I took a walk around the same spot again. It was then that I heard something mewl miserably. After some searching, I found a kitten... or at least something looking very similar to a kitten, except for the quite unnatural color. The kitten looked very bad, it seemed to me as if she was ill. I crouched down to try to pick her up. When my knees met the ground, I felt the orb in my pocket move. Surprised, I took it out and it sprung out of my hand and to the kitten. Only then did I notice the little orbs next to the kittens tail.
After getting its missing orb back, the kitten stopped mewling, but I still took it home with me because it looked pretty weak. I nursed it back to health and almost thought it would leave once it regained its strength, but since then, it stayed with me.
Told from Allysa's point of view
- It was a beautiful sunny day and I was lazily flying around, when I my nose was invaded by the wonderful smell of roses. I searched for the source of it and was welcomed by a rose garden. It was truly gorgeous with seemingly all different kinds of roses. I was looking around everywhere, dancing lightly over the petals and relishing in the feeling of the living flowers all around me. Suddenly, I heard the cracking sound of a breaking branch. Startled, I flew away as fast as I could. Only when I got home I noticed that one of my orbs was missing. I had to have lost it while playing around.
The next day, I went searching for it. Having not found it on the first day, I tried again on the second, third and fourth day. I was getting weaker by the day, and more and more frantic with my search too. On the fifth day, my strength left me. I couldn't move anymore because I didn't have much more energy left.
It seemed like fortune to me that it was this moment, shortly after I collapsed, that a young human girl came walking down the path around the garden, even more so, when it became apperent that she had found my missing orb. The girl took me with her and helped me getting my strength back and because it was fortune that brought us together, I decided not to leave her, but to stay with her and her family.