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…some time later…

On a warm and almost silent summer afternoon in the land between the two great rivers, a bare-footed young girl wandered curiously from the primitive village in which she lived. She skipped happily along a lightly worn grassy path, which slithered its way into the nearby jungle. The dense green canopy into which she traveled remained mostly unexplored, offering an unrivaled adventure to anyone with the courage, or innocence to enter. The girl’s name was Eva, and there was not a worry on her pure young mind.

For the brown hair, blue-eyed seven year-old, the world was not only pleasing to her senses, but also simple to understand. The fruits of her life’s experience had left her with a comforting sense of peace and fulfillment. She had everything she needed by day, and slept well at night. There were no specific thoughts or actions led to this feeling, it just was. For Eva, conflict and suffering did not yet exist, for she had faced neither fear, nor adversity before. The light shined in through the trees by day, and reflected off of the great rivers by night. As the light of the world moved, so too did Eva. It was always there with her.

In Eva’s life, there was but one great passion: art. Her passion for artistic beauty and complicated, yet intelligent designs, had entertained her thoughts for nearly every second of her seven joyous years. Thus was the case as she wandered down the grassy path: all the while inspired by the natural wonders of her surroundings.

It was the only path she knew, and she had walked portions of it prior to that day. With each excursion, she had gone further from her riverside village, gradually opening her eyes to the lures of the larger world.

Tempted by the many discoveries she had made in the past, Eva wandered further that day than she had ever been before. She longed for the feeling of finding something new and exciting. However, as she lost track of time, she would soon discover something that would change her life forever. Life, as she knew it then, would never be the same again.