Introduction
of her best friend, "Who will save me now? Who will be my knight in shining armor when you are gone?"
He looked at me then and my heart wept for the loss of him. "I'm not gone, 'Chite, and I'll not be gone tomorrow - not truly. I'll just be a little further away is all. I'll always protect you 'Chite, always. I will never leave you."
It is strange the things you remember so many years later. Some things simply cannot be forgotten. The remainder of my childhood passed without great remark and I will not bother with the telling of it.
Twas the six and ten year after my birth when all that had been set in motion came to fruition. But I get ahead of myself, it was just before the Nonae of Febari...
(chapter 1)