Eevee sat loosely on her window seat peering through the glass into the street ahead of her. She sat in the living room of the home she had lived in since she was a little girl. And now she was going to leave it behind her. Leaving her parents and elder sister, as she embarked on the world.
A slight wind blew through a crack in the door, riffling her black skirt through the air. She remained unmoved in the cold.
Eevee was once a happy and energetic teenager, yet as she grew older she never seemed to stay from being depressed. In her mind, she had always been left to the side, neglected. She wiped the tears from her eyes and wished she could call out to the people in the street, calling for them to come and save her from her own personal hell, but she knew she couldn't.
"How can they hear me?" she wondered to herself. "They're dead inside. Their lives have killed them"
It was the close of an April day, chilly and wet. Raindrops coated the unending walls of solid rock. It was a lonely night. There was no sign of anything now, apart from the odd blackbird swooping past.
She lay for perhaps two hours. She threw open the window, letting in a sweet smell from the blossoming trees in a small green opposite the house.
It was quite a bit dark by this point. Turning towards the front door, she stepped out into the stinging cold outside. And she left home.
She held a lantern close to her body, pacing through shaded, echoing streets. Day after day, she traipsed longingly through alleyways, bypaths and forgotten passages, looking for a new place to call home.
About a month passed. She stood on top of a hill at the edge of a secluded forest and looked out on the buildings in the distance. The morning sun glinted on the metalic skyscrapers underneath her, and glistened onto a small river not so far way. Eevee ran towards the river and climbed in a small boat floating in the frosted water. She drifted downstream into the town of Kalen.
Kalen was a town that had been left more or less unchanged for hundreds of years, leaving it with a depressive atmosphere that hung above the gothic buildings like a dark smog. She hadn't been here for many years. Not since she was a child when she used to live here with her family.
Even so, Eevee found comfort in the old-fashioned streetlights dotted along the cobbled streets.
"You'll never make it" Eevee recalled her sibling saying, "You'll be back. You couldn't possibly live out on your own". Eevee had confided in her sister that she was leaving home. She had tried to make excuses to her as to why she chose to do this, but in reality, there were no real reasons. She had no reasons for many of the things she had done over the course of her life. But this, this out of every single action she had made, would be one to change her life forever.
Eevee only knew one person who lived in Kalen. A girl who she used to be a friend with in her childhood, named Lily. Lily had grown up to become what you may call a witch doctor (but she would refer to herself as a "faith healer") and they were close in their early years.
She had promised her friend that whenever she needed help, she would be there, waiting for her. Well, now was one of those times.
Quite early one morning (possibly midnight, mabye one in the morning), she found a special delivery on her doorstep.
"Lily! Lily! Where are you, Lily?"