Dust and Gold
The day my life started. Well sort of...
Hi, my name's Callie I am 14 years old. I have black hair and green eyes and I am a run-away (I prefer the term: Orphanage escapee). Oh, and I'm probably about to die.
I would tell you my life story, but I'm going to start from the day my life ACTUALLY started. Which was 2 years ago.
I had to get away from the city, I've been following this road in the woods for days, I had tons of water and only 1 package of beef jerky left. I guess I'll have to hunt for food after today.
As I stumbled across a valley in Long Island looking for a good tree to camp out tonight. I found a nice hill, with tall trees, suddenly I hear laughter, I dived into a bush and hope that they don't see me.
The people who laughed-that I also discovered where just kids-passed me and went down into the valley bellow. I didn't see anything there before, but now I saw mismatched buildings, a big lake, canoes and other stuff. 'It's probably some kind of summer camp' I think to myself. Not taking my eyes off the structures, I climbed a tree near the area and found a comfy branch to sleep in that was about 9 feet from the ground.
I could see the stars, so I decided to count them till I fell asleep, around 20 my eyelids felt heavy. So I closed my eyes.
Dreams, never usually had good ones when I have them. This wasn't one of my luckier nights, I was in a dark cave and heard mad laughter in the distance.
I walked around, the cave was terribly dark, all you could see was a glow about 20 meters from where I was standing, suddenly I tripped and was sent falling down a pit that wasn't there a couple of seconds ago.
"You must help me rise, Penelope..." A deep taunting voice tells me from a distance. Penelope? My name isn't Penelope. That was the last though that went through my mind before my eyes shot open. I was about 2 meters from the grass, I was screaming really loudly before I hit the ground and everything went black.
I woke up with a jolt, suddenly my vision went blurry and everything started to spin. My head hurt.
"She's up," I hear whispering from somewhere. Where am I?
I was too dizzy to really understand my surroundings, some came up to me, he was really tall, and was riding a horse?
Without getting off the horse he leaned towards me.
"Hello?" He asked, he sounded far away.
I tried to say Hi but it sounded more like "Iee."
"Someone get this girl some nectar!" He yelled over his shoulder, without getting off his horse. As my vision cleared a little bit I saw that he was not on top of the horse, but part of it. Yet it was not the weirdest thing I've seen this year.
A girl came running in and gave me a weird liquid. I sipped it, somehow knowing it would make me feel better. It tasted like cupcakes that I ate once when I was younger, when I was sent to my first foster home... The memory made me feel warm
My vision cleared more. Enough for me to panic.
'WHERE THE HECK AM I?' I think to my myself
"Where-? Who-? How are you-?" I ask pointing to the half-horse. I must be going crazy, or dreaming. I pinch my arm, hard, for 3 seconds. Nothing.
A distant memory taunted me, when I was younger... It faded, now I was trying to remember what I even remembered.
I grabbed the top of my head. No beanie. My beanie was the only thing that I had with me when the first orphanage found me.
"I am Chiron... and you are?" The man-that I now know is Chiron-said while pointing at me.
"Non of your business. Now, where's my stuff so I can get going?" I asked slightly sassy.
"You're not going anywhere, young lady." He said raising an eyebrow.
Oh god, I'm a kidnap victim. If this dude wasn't blocking the door, I would of sprinted out of this place by now.
"Wha- why?" I asked.
"You're what they call Ημίθευς(Imithefs)."
My brain somehow picked that up as demi-god.
Notes
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