The first one was when he was five turns old. He had been playing in a field, and he fell into a pit. Thread fell that day, but an overhang protected him. He was found two days later, starving and at the edge of collapsing.
The second was when his parents forced his sister to go and marry someone they did not even know.
The third, and final, was when he ran away again to find his sister. He got to her new hold just in time to watch, with his parents standing by her 'husband', her be murdered. He continually hoped, at the time, that his parents had been shocked into nonadmission, but he found out later that they had been all for it. His sister had done something, something they did not agree with, and they had forsaken thier own child and had her murdered. He had screamed, and tried his hardest to get to the murderers, but they had simply taken him home with them. When he found out that his parents knew, he was drugged, and shipped off to a hold on the souther continent to serve as a drudge. It was there where he had been Searched. It was also there where he had vowed never to get close to anyone again.
He tried to think of happy memories, like when his sister and he went camping together, or when he met the dolphins, but when he did, the snakes would release him, and a bigger one, with a strange word written on it's side would pick him up and thrash around, before returning him to the other snakes, whom, he realised, had words of thier own. After several times of this, he realised what the words meant. The six smaller snakes were called Memory, and the one larger snakes name was Hope. He was returned to the path, which now had a sign. It said, in large, bold letters, "DECISION." At which point, he woke up screaming.