it felt as if we had been walking for hours but finally I had begun to see a small town in the distance. We had reached our destination. the market but before we could enter a guard stopped in front of us. It was a man who seemed to be in his early thirties “hello mam may i see your verification card” a verification card? My mother handed him a black card that had white symbols that seemed to have been engraved into it. The man inspected the card and let us into the town. I'm assuming it's a type of passport in this world. Carts filled with fruits lined the pathway and the loud sounds of hagglers, most of them seemed to be women. While i had been

Observing my surroundings we made our way to one of the stands. A young girl stood with a bright smile which made her look even cuter thanks to her pink hair and violet eyes next to her stood a young girl she seemed to be the same age as me she was hiding behind the lady

“Oh elizabeth is that your son”

“Yes isn't he cute, and i see you also came with layla”

It would seem the little girl's name is layla but more importantly i just heard the name of my mother for the first time “elizabeth” while thinking i ended up talking out loud wich caught

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There attention after staring at me for a few seconds the lady with pink hair began giggling and grabbed me the little girl next to me seemed displeased i felt the same way after she had put me down they began talking and somehow they decided to let layla (little girl)stay with us

At first she rejected and even started crying although after a few minutes she accepted

We then left to complete our shopping which took until late in the evening. I was scared that we would have to walk during night time but there was a carriage waiting at the gate we had entered from. Inside the carriage were two seats facing opposite it each other layla had been sleeping on the right when we entered she didn't take up much space so when we entered i decided to sit next to her i had planned on staying up but i guess i was more tired than expected

Before i had noticed i had fallen asleep and was woken when we arrived back home all of the things we had bought had already been taken inside.

After i had eaten I walked into my room to sleep and layla was there sleeping in my bed so i decided to ignore that fact and slept next to her.