Chapter 3: Enter: Kei!

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Enter: Kei

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, a girl woke up. For a moment, she was just laying there, not thinking and not realizing what was going on around her. She was in blackness, yet a few spots of color were dancing around. It seemed surreal. One single feeling was filling her entire being; confusion.

Where am I, she asked herself.

Then another feeling crossed her chest; a need for caution. For some reason, whatever that reason might be, she felt like she needed to be incredibly careful. Next, she realized that she there was no way she could know where she, since her eyes were closed.

And so, she opened her pitch black eyes. At first her vision was hazy and she could see no more but a few different colors. There was a lot of green and brown, but also a bit of blue. Even before her vision became clear again, she realized that she was looking upwards as she started feeling gravity. A few short seconds later, her vision became clear. She was in a forest. The green that she had seen where the leaves, the brown the tree trunks, the twigs and the branches. The bit of blue was the sky that she saw through the crowns of the trees. As she looked up at that scenery, she only felt more confusion. How had she gotten here? What had happened?

In one quick movement, she sat upright only to be bombarded with memories. They were hazy and blurry, but they were still memories. These memories were the cause for a small smile that made its way onto her lips.

I remember, she thought. I remember my name, and who I remember who I am … well … most of it anyways …

She remembered her family. She remembered that she had a mother and a father, an older brother and a twin brother. And she could remember a single name; Kei. It was her name. She remembered that had always called her mother okaa-san, her father otou-san and her older brother onii-san. But what had been their names? Kei couldn't remember their names anymore. And she couldn't remember her twin's name either, nor what she had called him. Maybe she had called him by his name …

Kei frowned as she looked around her. She was in a small clearing, surrounded by forest. Now she tried standing up, which worked without problems. She lifted her head and looked around, as far into the forest as possible. Now what should she do? After all, it didn't seem like there was any sign of civilization near by …

"Hello! Can Anybody hear me?" Kei called out in vain.