Prologue

"Urrrghhh...?". 

I open my eyes. I immediately catch something wrong around me, but I feel strange. I am having a headache, I feel a bit heavy. My head, yes, something heavy inside it.

Not just the pressure in my head... my body is experiencing the same thing. 

But, I see that pressure is slowly lowering. I can't move just yet, I'm still on the ground, lying somewhere.

The sky looks so bright, it's covering me. So do the shadows around me, they come from the trees, I think. 

"Urrrghhh...!". - I tried to move, I tried to get up

Then, finally... I can move my upper body up. I try to feel my hands, I squeeze them and push me up, I move my legs. 

Just in a blink of an eye, I can finally get up. I stand on the ground full of green grass, trying to stand still stably. Just... everything around me looks so odd. I see trees around me, vegetation around me, as if I am in the middle of some kind of forest. 

According to the sun's angle above me, this time must be noon, I assume. I have raised my right forearm to cover my eyes when I watch the sun. Hmmmm... I can hear sounds of a stream. I wonder why I am doing here, and why I am here from the beginning.

I have no memories of it...

I slowly look around to check on my body. I see that I am wearing a black hoodie...

Wait a bit, hoodie?

Why do I have the memory of that word...?

I'm wearing dark green pants, my dark green shoes seem to be a mess. I can see the surfaces of my shoes have so many traces of dirt, so dirty. Maybe I used to walk through mud or something, but I have no memories. 

Weird, huh?

"Oh...?". - I heard something sounding in my pants pockets when I was moving forward

I stop moving. I pull that thing out and see that is a handle. The handle is black, and... wow... a small double-edged blade inside the handle, huh?

I can switch it on or off by pushing a button. Now I remember what is thing object called, I can't remember, I am... lost.

I put the knife back in my pocket, I will wait till I have a chance to use it.

Hmmmm... I wonder what should I do now.

I don't know who I am, I don't know where I am at, I don't know anything is going on.

I'm inside a forest, I'm lost.

"A-". - I opened my voice, but I soon shut it up

I will think about it. I will consider using it, I don't think it is a good moment for me to open my mouth, must wait.

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I decide to follow the sounds of the stream. As I get there, maybe I will consider where I will go next, that's the plan.

Hmmm... the forest seems to be so quiet. I can hear sounds of birds, I see some flying in the sky, but that's all I witness. I see no animals on the ground, I follow the sound without caring about the scenery around me at all.

Hmmm... finally. I have reached there, before my eyes is a small river, cutting the line of where I am going. 

"Oh, hi!". 

I immediately turn around in cautious as I heard the voice of someone. That person turns out to be a... woman? She looks young. She was doing something behind the bushes, I didn't notice her existence when I was going.

"Wait a bit, I'll be there!". - She shouted, then her appearance got down to do something behind the bushes 

I stand still, making a calm face while waiting for the girl.

A minute after that, the girl comes up again. This time, she comes out from the bushes and approaches me freely. She looks so free, she is not cautious at all. But I feel a bit unsettled in this young girl. 

Well, she wears a dark yellow tunic. I can see gloves and plates to cover her shoulders and her knees. They look like body protector plates, made from... hides...?

The right side belt of her clothes stores something like a fur bag. The bag seems to be carrying things like arrows. Her chest has something like a wooden bow, strapped to her right shoulder. Her clothes have pouches to carry something, but I don't know.

I can see something looks like a brown dagger strapped to her right side chest. She is wearing a brown round cap, covering her head entirely. The young girl's appearance is quite small. She is even shorter than I am, and she is white, has brown hair, huh?

But I can't tell if her hair is long or short. By the way, she has big blue eyes staring at me, she looks a bit cute.

She must be about... 16 or 17, maybe even younger.

"Hmmmm...". - She got closer to me, she stared at me slowly.  "Hi, brother?". - She tiptoed

Hmmm... I wonder if I should speak to her. Maybe not.

I can understand what she is saying, but I don't know what kind of language she is using.

"Ummm... are you an adventurer?".  "... Or are you... don't tell me that you came here from Legta Kingdom?". - She got confused, she looked at something behind her before returning to look at me

"I thought my country has had it enough... I thought yours was worth living...".

"You wear so many strange things, stranger". - She walked around me, she focused on the "oddness" of my clothes

"Please speak up, brother". - She stopped moving, she asked me to speak up

I look at her without blinking, I keep silent while standing still before her.

"Ummmm... you can't talk?".

I nod.

"Oh, it's bad...". - She scratched her hair.  "This area is very near the border of two Kingdom, I don't think I will... take a refugee home, haizz...". - She sighed 

"I will do my best, alright? Please, I want to help you, so don't be worried". - She later looked away and pulled out something from one of her fur pouches 

I notice that she is looking at something like a map, that's a small-size fur paper. The girl keeps looking at the map, then she stores it in the pouch as if she has finished using it. Hmmmm... I will follow the girl from now on. I don't know where should I go now, so maybe I will follow her.

"The Sonia is about to get afternoon, please follow me". - She smiled at me while looking at me

"Ummm... please call me Elena by the way". - She said.  "Oh, I mean, you're mute so... well...". - She giggled slightly

"I will call you brother, alright, brother?".

I nod to the girl named Elena. Then, I set my foot to follow her path.