pause as I see the person, their oddly familiar and yet extremely foreign to me. "Who are you?" I ask the person, I'm unable to see their face and its making me uneasy. The person's hoddie is caked in dirt and mud, their jeans are ripped, and NOT in the fashionable way, their boots well I couldn't tell you what the original colour, all I do know is that it wasn't the one I was seeing. "A hungry, tired traveller looking for food and shelter" the person, a girl by her voice tells me, I know her voice but I can't place it. "Sorry I don't house random strangers" I inform her. "I may be random, but I'm no stranger," the girl responds without missing a beat.
I smirk; only one person alive would say something like that. "MOLLY!" I yell excitedly and wrap her in a big hug, she just laughs. "Its amazing how quickly your demeanour changes, from 'I don't know you what are you doing here don't ever touch me.' To 'OMG you're my friend have a hug, you can stay, here have some food," Mol says while shaking her head with laughter. I roll my eyes and laugh with her "c'mon, we haven't even started dinner, and you did say you were hungry." I tell her, with a smile and lead her into the kitchen she takes off her hood and sits down while I grab an extra plate for her.
***
With Molly, my honorary sister over its like nothing's changed, mum and dad would be out doing whatever, Mol would be over like she always is, I swear wherever we are she is always there. I smile at the thought and crawl out of bed. I take a look around my room, and grab some clothes, a pair of sweats and one of...dad's old shirts. My eyes flood with tears; I force them away and go for a shower. I return to my room and see that Molly is now awake and looking for me, "Morning" I say startling Molly and I smirk. "Wow your room hasn't changed much" she notes. "Still the same forest pattern walls, brown carpet and light blue bed, with the orange flowers" she describes my room. "Hey I love my room like this it reminds me of home," I smile thinking back to when we lived in Citarinty. I sigh and snap out of it "c'mon, let's go get breakfast" I suggest.
"Hey Moll, wanna go for a walk? I ask her, suddenly in the mood to get out of the house. "Where to?" She asks curious "no idea, but c'mon lets go" I whine, making her laugh. "Okay, okay let's go" "YAY!" I jump up and down like a little kid. Tyler and the others shake their heads and laugh at me. "What?" I demand, suddenly I'm the scary older sister again; I smirk at their faces and leave with Molly.
***
Sitting on the swing at the park I watch as a group of guys that look to be about twenty starts to harass a fifteen year old girl. I can see that the girl is handling it fairly well. I can feel the tension slowly building and I get off the swing, prepared to step in but the girl walks away. I'm about to sit back down when one of the guys grabs her wrist. I am back on my feet, the girl wrenches her wrist out of the mans, and I start to walk over, because this is NOT going to end well.
As I approach the book I see the girl turn and yell at them, the man hits her, the girls reaction is instant, she knees him in the family jewels, that'd have to hurt. The man raises his hand to hit her again but this time I intercept it, "I don't think so" I mutter and break his arm. Another then proceeds to attack me; I block him, and shove him to the ground knocking him out. The third man runs away. I turn to the girl "are you okay?" I ask her, studying her face, her name is Bethsheba. I smile at the older style of name, I love my abilities. "Uh yeah I think so," She says. I glance at her cheek I can already see the swelling and bruising. "C'mon, I'll get you some ice for that cheek," I tell her and lead her to the nearest servo.
***
Sighing I walk around town Mol had gone shopping and hasn't contacted me, I head down an alley and sit down to think, whilst doing so I get lost in my memories.
***
"WINTER!" I hear a scream and race to it my long black hair flying behind me. "LY! Where are you?" I call out "OVER HERE!" My little sister responds and I race forward, Ly, my godfather, Ly what happened?" I ask, she was covered in blood and had cuts grazing up and down her arms. "Win, th-th-they hurt me, they c-c-ca-carv-carved words i-into m-my bback and they starved mme, and th-they h-hung m-me u-up ffrom ch-chains an th-then el-el-eltrocuted m-mme, and th-threat-threatened t-t-to l-l-le-eave mme th-there." My poor little sister could barely get out her words, they had hurt her those, IMBICLES hurt my little sister, HOW DARE THEY. My body shook with anger, "Ly sweetie, look into my eyes, I tell her and she does as told "pain and scars, removeyourself fromthis being, pain and scars remove youself from this being." I chant healing her and making her pain and injuries go away. Looking at my little sisters' face, I can tell that the memories traumatise her. Sighing, I make them go away as well, "its okay Ly, it's gonna be okay, no-one is ever gonna hurt you while I'm around. No matter where you are I'll be there okay, I'm there, I'm always there I promise." I make a promise to Lyra that I intend to keep, but I don't know if I'll be able to. "But what happens if you're far away?" She questions in a quiet voice. "Well," I begin "no matter where you are, even if I'm not nearby, all you've gotta do is call out for me and I'll be there faster than you can blink, okay?" I answer her, whilst doubting my ability to do this but she doesn't need to know that. "Okay Winter" I smile at her, "sleep, and forget the pain" I mummer to her, and she does. "WINTER!"
***

"WINTER!" My head snaps up, I'm sitting in the middle of an alley, I gracefully rise to my feet and turn to where the noise came from. It was Molly. "RUN!" She yells at me gesturing for me to do so. "What? Why?" I ask staying in the exact same place. "Because there's a massive dog behind me!" She yells, whilst grabbing my wrist and dragging me along, "your version of massive or mine?" I ask, Molly's version of massive is anything bigger than a Jack Russel, its kinda funny really. "Yours!" She yells back, panicked. "Shoot" I mutter and I take the lead. I lead her through the backstreets of Tiora until we hit a dead end. "Damn," I mummer to myself and I look for a way out.

I glance up and I see it, a ladder, I'd need a running jump but I could probably make it. Molly though she'd need a boost, I position myself nearly under the ladder. "Mol up, UP" I yell out to her she looks at me like I'm crazy, which I probably am but, who cares. I point to the ladder and lace my fingers together placing them on my knee, I look to Molly and she nods. Molly takes a running start, jumps onto my hand, pushes of, grabbing hold of the ladder she starts to climb, I can hear the dogs' paws hitting the ground but its still a fair way off. I wait until Mol's of the ladder before I make my attempt.

I start to run. Pushing off the ground from where I was standing before, I stretch my fingers out, they brush past the bottom rung and I come back down. Heading back over to the other side of the alley and go again, this time I've leapt higher and I stretch my fingers further, I grasp the bottom rung and pull myself up and I start to climb, before I'm even halfway up I hear a loud, echoing bone-chilling cry. I push myself to go faster; I refuse to look down to see where it is. Once I'm at the top I allow myself a glace down, I can't believe it it's not a dog ITS A MASSIVE BLACK WOLF! "MOLLY!" I yell at my friend she turns to look at me. "Let's go" I mutter, and I take the lead through the mazes of abandoned buildings in Tiora, I take the most direct route home.