Chapter 2: About me

"I am Sunny, it's how my parents call me because I am the light of their eyes, their only daughter. Our world is small and well hidden in the deep of the forest. Thousands of years ago the war brought us here. We were almost to the mere of extinction when we run from the wolfs. Many years we lived in peace but one day they turned against us, the weaker humans. We tried to keep out ground but it was useless. Many people died those days. Few of us run in the ancestral forest, my ancestors run and I was born free, but there are still enslaved people in the Old Kingdom, which is far far away fortunately. My mother is a healer and my father is a hunter. The forest is our home, it provides us food and medicine but most important, shadow. I am a healer too, it means that I recognize medicinal plants and make mixtures from them to heal our people. For me this is easy because I ve learned from my mother since I was a child. My father is the chief hunter because the men hunt in groups, it s easier this way. They never let women to hunt with them. Women wash clothes, make clothes, cook, take care of the children, boring stuff. My father made an exception and let me to go fishing in my free time. My father is tall and strong with dark hair and strong arms and my mother is small with red hair and blue eyes, strange combination. I once saw my figure on the running water from the waterfall. I am small like my mother, but I have my father s green eyes and dark hair, full lips and small nose. Even if I am small I m quite atletic, we all are. Since the war, our people when they first got here they start training hard, running and climbing in trees, swimming fast and fighting. We learn mostly how to defend ourselfess in a combat where the enemy is stronger. We live in trees, it s so beautiful. Our houses are small, made from wood and are usually sustained from three big trees. Between the houses we have balanced paths made from branches. We cook on the down on the ground and sleep up in the trees. We wash in the river, we even have shampoo from a plant. Life is hard sometimes but also beautiful because we like to swim together and make fires and dance and sing. This is my home.