I am hungry I don't even know what it is. Why is my mind full of memories and experiences but all I remember is this street, she thinks to herself?
A cloud of dust floats across the air as the vagrant sits kneeling on the street corner. Its been five days and she hasn't eaten she doesn't even know who she is. People have talked to her, offered to help her, and taken advantage of her. Each interaction she only can mention is that she has no memory. She knows nothing of who she is or what she is. She is everything, she is nothing. Her mind is full of incessant memories, yet these memories are not hers. She has heard get out of here vagrant, no hobos allowed, I have enough mouths to feed, she is the unwanted.
I once heard people eat daily or they get dizzy and die, how am I alive after five days she thinks to herself. Deliriously she laughs as she goes to grab an apple and her hand is slapped away by a wry Kaian.
"You street people are all alike, come up in here with tattered clothes. Humph you look like you're wearing a silk tapestry. Probably stolen no doubt! Damn bum shoooo shooo shooo. Get out of here!
"And you smell like the rubbish you are, in fact you make our people look bad."
Hungry and rejected she walks further down the dusty street strait into nothingness. These memories why do I see a room and a woman screaming with her hands flawing about shouting no this can't be happening to me? In this memory I get sense she is what people call a wealthy person, yet all I see is dusty surroundings and that word what is it again? Poverty. She recalls one wealthy foreigner commented on the Kaian people being filthy savage slaves. That seemed to be a mean comment although I am unsure what mean really means. Meanness is more of a memory to me.
She looks down at her pale skin and looks into a puddle of water on the dusty street. She sees her bright blue eyes and blonde hair. Her face is full of dirt and muck from not bathing in the five days of her travels on the streets. Am I a Kaian? I don't feel like a filthy savage, she thinks to herself.
A street kid ran up to the girl and offers her the same apple she attempted to steal a moment ago.
"Lass you look hungry, you're new here aren't ya? There you go nodding your head up and down again, don't be shy you can speak to ol Sid." Although Sid looked like a regular street kid like the countless others on the dusty streets in the Kaian capital, he is in fact nineteen years old. His face is sunken from years of not eating and drinking dirty street water.
"Come now Lass what is your name?"
The girl reluctantly speaks, "I don't know my name, I don't know anything more than from being on this street for five days. Sid why are you helping me? …No one has really helped me with being hungry and all"
Spitting to the side and wiping green ooze from his mouth, Sid suddenly and carefully thinks of his response.
Sid was known by the street girls for being heavily at first and tyrannical the next moment. He would woo them and let them hear what they wanted. He could get them out of the city you know, feed them, give them a good life, they didn't have to be a slave or toil too hard cleaning or cooking. However, Sid was a middleman for the Kaian comfort girl trade. Yagers would pay good money to have a night with a somewhat clean Kaian girl, and Sid could tell this nameless girl was fresh so to speak. If anything, she smelled naive just as bad as she smelled.
"Look man," Sid fidgets as he lies, "I just want to get you cleaned up a bit, wouldn't you want a place to stay tonight? I just wanna help"
A place I wouldn't know what that's like. This street dust is always in my nose and ears. I sense this being cleaned would be nice. I have a memory of that something called a bath. I overheard another street person commenting on how baths are a luxury.
"May I have a bath?" asks the nameless girl.
"Of course my dear, take my hand and lets walk"
The two walk quickly down the street. Carriages go by and with their horses flinging their heads wildly. The girl never understood why the horses had things around their head to keep them from seeing side to side. The horses would fling their head back and forth as they trotted. She smiled at the thought of a horse doing a loud neigh just as one did the other day when she was crouched against a wall trying to sleep. The neighing woke her up and she was started.
"Hey you day dream too much," says Sid, "I can tell you got your head in the clouds, you're day dreaming about something, what is it?"
"The horses fling their heads and make funny sounds, I like it." She is grinning large.
Yup, naive and ready for a client. Sid mentally pats himself on the back as they walk down the street for knowing how to pick the best girls. He found himself a good one the other day which he has been offering his help to. Delivering two girl instead of one is always more profitable. He lets out a loud laugh and green ooze comes out his nose.
The girl looks at him with a unapproving look.
"Hey don't mind the ooze, I need to goto to the doctor for my infection you know. Ol Sid isn't rich enough for such luxuries. Humph what Kaian is? Right?" Sid laughs loudly and with nebulous boisterous tones.
The girl laughs along nervously to get him to stop.
"So we are Kaians?"
As they continue to walk Sid can't believe she asks a stupid question, "Of course we are Kaians, see all of us with pale ghastly skin and blonde hair? It's our people's trait, no one in all the lands of this cursed island have our skin. It's like our mark to show who we are or better yet what we are"
The girl nods her head up and down and takes mental notes of Sid's words. Is this admiration she feels she wonders. He seems to know many things.
"Anyways this is our stop, my spot."
The two enter the dusty shack. The girl notices the shack is less dusty and a broom in the far corner of the room they just entered as they went through the doorway. As she surveys her surroundings, she notices the room is in fact the only room of the place. This is the first real place she has been to which wasn't a memory. A young woman walks up to her and extends her soft hand.
"Aw how are you dear? Sid may I clean her up"
"Aww o yes dear of course you can, give her the tour why don't ya. I will be back I need to run an errand." Sid quickly exits through the doorway leaving the two women in his shack.
"Dear what is your name?"
"I don't know, I don't have one?"
"That's ridiculous you need one, I know it how about OfSid?"
The nameless girl squints her face.
"Yeah I know that name sucks, well girl goto the back there is a bucket and you can get cleaned up. Sid most likely is picking up company for the night." She hands the nameless girl a purple bottle, "This is perfume you will need it tonight, ok? And if something weird happens just use this," she hands the nameless girl a three-pronged sharp object, "and after you use this kick him in the balls, okay girl?"
As she cleans herself the best she knows how with the murky bucket water and perfume, she wonders what is she to do with this sharp thing she was handed and what are balls? Like the one's the street kids kick around. There is much I don't know yet I guess. I should ask!
As she emerges from the back with the murky bucket water even murkier than before she asks shyly,
"What are balls and what is this thing?" the nameless girl asks.
"Men got the balls you know and you," she makes a stabbing motion, "you stab the chump if he gets too rough with you, the Yagers always do girl. Sid most likely found a Yager client, they seem to like Kaian playthings like us girl." A nervous laugh comes out of the woman's mouth as she frantically and quickly spoke of the roughness of Yagers.
"Ok, balls like what the street kids kick, but what is this pointy thing." The nameless girl put her left index finger on it.
With a nervous tone the girl explains the origins of the object, "That's a Sai, my grandma and her copy would use it to tend to the tomatoes patch my grandpa planted. When I was taken it's what she gave me to protect myself. That's a special Sai you got in your hand, yes it's sharp. All three prongs are sharp girl."
"Sai", the nameless girl said nervously, "I like the way that word sounds, none of the words I have heard sound quite that way."
"I believe that sai came from the east, somewhere far. Gramps probably stole it off some Yeager, ha."
They both nervously laugh as the door creeks open slowly. "I am here for you Trix," says a tall Yager as he enters the room. The nameless girl notes that the Yager is young with slicked back brown hair and brown eyes. She also notices his commanding presence.
"New girl you can wait outside, Trix never takes long to lay"
"Oh you're such a charmer to a girl," says Trix. "Look just wait outside and most likely another Yager is going to show up ok, Sid is sending them over. You like my sai you can hold onto it,"
Trix looked into the girls eyes with what seemed like a long stare. In a sense time seemed to stop to the nameless girl. She looked down at the sai and could only crack a smile as a response to Trix. She walks outside and shuts the door behind her. She has no clue what is going on, she has only heard that the Yagers are soldiers of fortune and will fight for the highest bidder, but are always loyal to someone called the emperor. The girl leans her head against the door and turns around to kneel to rest as she always has. At least I am not hungry anymore and I am clean now. I guess Sid was a man of his word.
"Hey I don't like what you're doing that's too rough"
"I paid double the rupees for you tonight, you're going to put up or shut up."
Sobbing, Trix runs away from the dirty mattress towards the doorway. Suddenly the Yager quick reflexes kick in, most likely from his training and battles, and he grabs her arm. "You're going to do as you're told!"
Sid walks up the pathway with another Yager and they are both drunk and laughing.
"Yeah man she is naïve and everything"
"Really? That's how I like it. These thousand rupees better be worth it Sid"
"Bro I know how to pick them"
"I am not your bro Kaian, you're barely good enough to drink with"
"There she is right there"
The Yager practically couldn't control himself and was drooling with glee. He hasn't seen such a cute Kaian before and he noted she looks similar to the Queen of the Kaians Rousha.
"Who is this chick, is she some mindless copy? You know I paid for the goods man!"
"Nah she talks but has like no memory bro"
The both laugh and suddenly hear a shout of do as you're told.
"Meh sounds like that guy from earlier is roughing up my merchandise. I'll handle this"
Sid enters the shack with the other Yager and the nameless girl in tow. The three marvel at the scene before them. Trix is on the floor motionless and the Yager who was her client is breathing heavy.
"She wouldn't listen, I had to. Kaians are nothing but animals to yield to the superior races. Women need to know their place"
"Hey man I didn't sign up for this, Kaians are worthless savages but murder is still a crime in all lands," says the other Yager.
"Don't worry, I will release you of your burden of being a witness to this."
The Yager knew very well to leave no witnesses to his crime. He leaves Trix's lifeless body and leaps to the other Yegar and slashes his throat from his larynx to his ears. The Yager grabs his throat gasping for air and his assailant kicks him in the chest and pushes a dagger into his heart.
"Weak, almost as weak as the Kaian whore." The Yager let out a laugh, an ominous laugh.
Meanwhile, Sid is on his knees begging and pleading and saying in inaudible things to himself. The Yager mutters weak to himself and kicks Sid's head clean off his shoulders.
"Hum weird girl is left, ha." Come over to me, I might just let you live and take you back to my castle in the Yager capital."
Just as the Yager says the words, the nameless girl surveys the carnage of the room. Trix's neck snapped, the other Yager throat gouged out, and Sid's head was sitting in the corner along with his headless body. The girl's eyes shut and suddenly she leaped towards the Yager instinctively and stabs him in the right shoulder.
Likewise, he instinctively slashes her with a dagger and cuts her white clothing. The girl can do nothing but think to run and that she wants to live. A chase ensues and the two are running on foot.
"Come here girl, you can't get away with making me bleed. You're dirty trashy tramp!"
The girl ignores him and runs. Her running speed is fast although until now she never ran before. Her speed is amazing considering all she has eaten is an apple in her life which the now dead Sid gave her earlier today. Kaian's are known for their amazing ability and strength. The Yager although in great shape is having a hard time keeping up with her and soon gives away as they approached a bridge
"Wench I will remember this and will find you, you look like the god damn queen anyways, Queen Rousha… you can talk though and the queen would never make a copy, its below her."
The Yager wonders if the prophecy could be true about a sentient copy of a Kaian. He slows his running pace further and the girl goes into a wooded area. He thinks to himself perhaps that's why she got the jump on him. He decides to get a messenger pigeon back to two older brothers at Yager high command and to communicate the finding of this mysterious Kaian, for the emperor must be alerted if the prophecy is ever thought to be coming true.
I can run fast and I will get away, he isn't going to do that to me. I don't like this feeling, fear I think it is. I sense he is gone but I must be sure, thinks the girl to herself. She suddenly started sees a boy in front of her leaping from a tree and a old man near by.
"You seem to be lost an need of assistance young lady, can we help you?" Says the Wiseman.
"Queen Roshua, your highness," shouts Mirkos, "What is wrong, why are you in that tattered tapestry and are you under attack?"
Confused the girl looks at the two, "I am not the queen, I have no name."
"Where did you come from and why are you carrying a farmers sai," asks Mirkos without breath.
"I used the sai to escape with my life, Trix gave it to me before she was murdered by a Yager."
"Yager? Where?" The Wiseman starts to look around and reach out with his hands. "We're fine for now I sense no one else around now, but information will have to be had later. Carry the girl on your back and lets travel by treetop to somewhere else. If this mystery girl is what I think she is, that Yager is going to alert the empire," exclaims the Wiseman.
"Master what is she?"
"She might appear to be an unwanted Kaian, like most Kaian, but the fact she was able to take on a Yager at her size…. Well my boy I believe she is the prophecy"