How did Cara come to be? The secret is not often divulged, nor does Cara herself want to tell. She feels a certain responsibility toward secrecy, you see, and has to this date told only two entities of her beginnings. Her biography does not extend back very far, none of the "thousands of years ago" mystical nonsense. It is naught but the trifling frolics of a kougra and her sister; a caretaker and her invalid; a friend and a friend. The simplest way to tell it would be just as it is: a story, beginning with that ages-old phrase...